Re: Unrolling round bales

Posted by NCWayne on August 01, 2012 at 08:37:59 from (69.40.232.132):

In Reply to: Unrolling round bales posted by Fudd@work on July 31, 2012 at 19:59:26:

I've just finished one for a large commercial farm that will take 4x4x8 square bales and break them down and fluff them before feeding them into a small square bailer. The reason I build this one is there is not one commercially available to do square bales, and even this one is a gamble since it's currently untested. Granted they had it semi running some years back and with the mods it out to work, but it's still mainly an untested, new machine. On the other hand the ones to do round bails are readily available that have been around for years and do a decent job at what they do. In fact my customer just bought a used one for about $12,000 from a very motivated seller. I say very motivated, because they told me that the cost of the unit new is around $75,000. Given the shape the power unit, etc all was in the asking price on the thing was a steal, as the engine and pump setup alone would run well over what they gave for it. Hopefully we'll have the both of them up and running within the next couple of weeks and I'll be able to post some pics, and maybe a video or two if I can figure out how to do it.

In this instance this is a huge commercial farm and they supply trailer loads of wheat straw, wholesale, to a large customer base. Due to the quantity of material moved they have acerage leased over a large area. Due to transportation costs they calculated they can move more material per day in the large square bales using just three people than they currently do in small bales using 30 people. Then there's the fact that a large majority of farms do round bailes also so they are 'a dime a dozen', so to speak. In the end, with the increase in price of the small bales over round or large square bales, the decrease in transportation and labor costs, etc they are looking to save alot of money using these two machines. Like another post stated, and like I said in the beginning, the costs of both machines are extreemly high, even used (((they just got lucky on the one for the round bales))) so unless you've got a way to justify, and offset, the cost involved it's going to be more trouble and alot more expensive, than it's worth.

Good luck and I hope this helps.

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