Automatic Bale Wrapping Station

Automatic Bale Wrapping Station BALE HANDLING Inventor Geoff Eyre Derbyshire England didn’t like wrapping bales in the field where he would later have to pick them up always having to be careful not to damage the plastic wrap     That’s what prompted him to design and build what he calls a “wrapping station” that makes wrapping a large group of round bales faster and more efficient     Eyre invented the Traileyre round bale hauler more than 30 years ago see FARM SHOW’s Vol 24 No 4 It’s still a popular bale hauler in the UK     His idea for a wrapping station is that one man and a tractor could wrap bales after they’re hauled off the field The wrapping unit and conveyor are designed to load bales into the wrapper automatically     Bales are dropped onto a pair of straight-rail conveyors that each hold 3 bales They feed bales to a stationary wrapping unit     Sprocket drives at either end drive apron chains fitted with cross bars that move bales down the conveyor     Bales are wrapped by 2 McHale stationary units that were lowered about 6 in In less than a minute using his Traileyre bale hauler Eyre can drop off 6 bales and head back to the field     Power for the wrapping system comes from a stationary 27 hp diesel engine fitted with two hydraulic pumps Lift arms fitted with wheels move bales from the conveyors onto the wrappers     Eyre says he’s confident the bale wrappers in conjunction with his Traileyre bale hauler will be able to wrap 180 bales per hour     It’s still at the prototype state but Eyre expects the whole package of two conveyors wrappers and a diesel power plant to sell for about $26 000

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