Baling Behind A Forage Harvester

Baling Behind A Forage Harvester FORAGE HARVESTERS The story in our last issue about the combine-pulled baler Deere plans to introduce at the Farm Progress Show this fall prompted a call from a reader who thinks he has a better idea Harry Wallace says mounting a baler on back of a forage harvester instead of a combine makes more sense because they generate so much more crop material at a much faster rate than a combine And you could bale up high-quality chopped forage by wrapping as silage bales His idea is to mount a baler directly to the back of a forage harvester and blow “earlage” or haylage directly into the bale chamber “So far as I can find no one has done this before in North America but I found a video on YouTube com of a Claas Jaguar 870 with a trailing Claas Quadrant big square baler kicking out wrapped silage bales It was made somewhere in Europe but I haven’t been able to track it down ” says Wallace You can contact him by email at: hwallace70@gmail com or ph 309 259-9092 You can see the video of the Claas machine in action at www farmshow com

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