Bale wrappers

(quoted from post at 03:46:36 05/30/19) Not familiar with the wrapper you are speaking of , but I have considerable experience with wrapped bales both individually wrapped and in-line. My first wrapper was just a turn table, and required two people to run, if you wanted to get much done. One person on the tractor with a grapple moving bales on and off the wrapper, and one person actually wrapping the bale. Fastening the plastic wrap to the bale, then running the turn table to wrap the bale, and finally cutting the plastic. Slow operation, but for a small number of bales economical. We made 500 wrapped bales each year, and it became a pain. So we bought a wrapper we could take to the field, complete with a arm to pick the bale up on to the turn table, and would both start and cut off the wrap, and dump the bale off onto its end. Only problem was, usually one, two and sometimes three of these functions would fail, and you were on and off the tractor, drove me nuts. Then after two years of fighting with this wrapper, I traded it on a new in-line wrapper, so far very happy with the choice. I now use half as much plastic as the individual wrapped bales needed, and it will wrap the hay as fast as I can push it into the wrapper all alone, and no need to have a grapple. We do over a 1,000 wrapped bales each year now. Not sure any of this is any help to you, just my experience. I would definitely go with a simple turn table wrapper if only doing 1-200 bales, but no more. Bruce

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