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Baling a flake of hay?

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Dale (MI)

08-31-2002 21:11:07




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I've never heard of a flake of hay used as a measure until I started helping a friend feed horses. Searching on google shows a lot of different ideas about how much a flake of hay weighs. I am guessing baled hay tends to bunch up in "flakes" because of the plunger stroke but that would not produce any uniform size. It would depend on how much hay had been picked up since the plunger last compressed it. Does that sound right?

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Jay

09-04-2002 18:15:53




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 Re: baling a flake of hay? in reply to Dale (MI), 08-31-2002 21:11:07  
I agree with Paul. I was always told by the farmer up the road, 14 strokes per bale. Any more your too slow, any less your too fast. I was also told tention should be set to make a 40# bale. Don't know if what I was told is a real rule or not, but it works for me.



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Jim

09-02-2002 04:53:36




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 Re: baling a flake of hay? in reply to Dale (MI), 08-31-2002 21:11:07  
As a kid growing up in Texas,they were called blocks of hay.I dont know if this goes back to the statinary baler days when they said block and tie.Now most people here call them flakes.Newer balers running higher plungerhead strokes make more uniform bales.Jim



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Jim

09-02-2002 04:53:17




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 Re: baling a flake of hay? in reply to Dale (MI), 08-31-2002 21:11:07  
As a kid growing up in Texas,they were called blocks of hay.I dont know if this goes back to the statinary baler days when they said block and tie.Now most people here call them flakes.Newer balers running higher plungerhead strokes make more uniform bales.Jim



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Sam#3

09-08-2002 13:40:13




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 Re: Re: baling a flake of hay? in reply to Jim, 09-02-2002 04:53:17  
Stationary(manual) balers did not make flakes! A flake is made as a product of the plunger knives on auto balers. None of the manual balers I ever saw had plunger knives. Blocks(as in "block and tie") was a device used to devide the bales and serve as a means of feeding the wire in the manual tie balers. The ti-er, who controled the operation, would call for a block, the back wire man(person who fed the wire back) dropped the block in the chute and then pick them up after the bale dropped. The block drop had to be coodinated so as not to jam on the plunger stroke.

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Yep, you're right. lc

09-01-2002 20:09:44




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 Re: baling a flake of hay? in reply to Dale (MI), 08-31-2002 21:11:07  
The amount fed will vary with which horse, the activity of the horse, the weight/size of bale, the type of grass, the amount of grain or other additions to the feed..... . Usually you feed a lb/feeding rate and the size and number of the flake is adjusted to make it work. A baler will make heavy flakes with a heavy windrow and visaversa mostly. I did some this year that were so bad a windrow the flakes almost don't hold together long enough to get to the feeder.

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paul

08-31-2002 23:04:44




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 Re: baling a flake of hay? in reply to Dale (MI), 08-31-2002 21:11:07  
Actually the pro balers adjust their speed, windrows, and so forth to make very consistant bales, 11-14 strokes (flakes) per bale, depending on the model baler.

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sammy the RED

08-31-2002 22:03:54




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 Re: baling a flake of hay? in reply to Dale (MI), 08-31-2002 21:11:07  
If a flake is a slab, then Yes.



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