Bale buster update

Just posted the other day about my customer with the custom built bale busting and rebaling outfit wearing out balers. Well, they are on the express train now. I got the new prep table installed today. Unfortunately we are still fighing problem with insufficient flow from the pump that a third party had speced out for the setup, but that will soon be remedied. That said until today the record was 7 big bales in an hour. Today they ran for one hour after I got the prep table hooked up. Unfortunately with the low hydraulic flow they have to stop two functions in order to move the prep table and ripper table converyors together as they are supposed to, but that problem will go away with the new pump. Even with the hydraulic issues causing things no to work as they need to, just having the table in place took them from 7 bales an hour to 12 bales, and number 13 sitting on the table ready to feed. With things right, and dialed in I see no reason they can't do the full 13 bales, and maybe even one more, once we get the bugs worked out.

Customer said the current bales are netting about 34 samll bales for every big bale, which means, judging by today, they should be able to turn out in excess of 400 bales per hour, consistantly, as long as they have bales in the barn to feed it.

How about some pictures. Did they decide on a new baler?

That sounds as if they will wear out that sq baler twice as fast that they were wearing out very fast baling less number of bales per hr.

WOW, that is 9 seconds per bale. Would love to see the setup in action. Got a million questions about how they handle the small squares that fast, how many people working at it, etc. Tom

sq bales must not weigh much to get 34 from a round, all ready compressed once

That's under 7 bales per minute. 9 bales per second would be 32,400 per hour. He said 400 per hour.

Farmer Boy,
It is just math - - - no secrets.
Start with 400 bales per hour as Wayne said.
60 sec per min X 60 min in an hour gives you 3600 seconds per hour.
Divide 3600 seconds by 400 bales and you get:

9 seconds per bale
I said 9 sec/bale, you said 9 bales/sec.
Tom

(quoted from post at 05:22:55 04/04/13) sq bales must not weigh much to get 34 from a round, all ready compressed once

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The other thread of Wayne's stated big sq bales, I think they were 4X4X8

Farmerboy may be able to do math, but his reading is dyslexic.

Yeah, they are busting the 4x4x8+ square bales to get as many small bales as they do. Not sure what the small bale count is on the round ones, but they said the machine works just as good for the round ones as the square ones. In fact they had bought a used, factory designed one to do the round bales (got it for a steal of a price) and are now planning to sell it because mine works better for the round ones than the one designed specifically to do the round ones.

Right now they have a plywood trough made that feeds the bales from the chute on the baler straight up to the back of the trailer. From there they have several guys in the trailer stacking. The man in charge of the project is really wanting to get things going at full speed and then getting a Bale Baron to take care of the majority of the labor, and if yesterday was any indication of things to come he'g going to have to either do that or get about twice as many guys. I say that because all of them were saying that it was all they could do to keep up once things got rolling good.
Bale baron

I can't ever remember to take the camera with me to get any good pics. Yhe one on my phone can't get any really good ones of it because it's setting in an old turkey barn, with no light other than what comes in from outside, and all that seems to do is put alot of glare in the pics I've tried to take so far.

I didn't read that very closly. I thought you said 9 bales per second. My mind couldn't comprehend what that would look like. 9 seconds per bale sounds perfectly reasonable for a newer baler.