Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Baling Corn Stalks

After the corn harvest was finished, Justin began the process of baling corn stalks.  They pull an attachment called a "flail shredder" behind a tractor that chops the stalks and husks and throws it all into a row which the baler can then bale.

All the corn trash flail shredded and in rows ready to be baled.

In the baler tractor one evening.


The baler has an accumulator on the back that holds three bales.  Once there are three bales, it automatically drops them off.


It was pretty dusty one day!

After the field is baled, Justin drives around in the tele-handler and stacks the bales.


To haul them out of the field, someone drives a semi around and Justin uses the tele-handler again to load the trailer.  Then they stack them in the pivot corners where they will be loaded onto other trucks and sold.


The first part of the video is a time-lapse of Justin baling and the second part is him stacking bales in the tele-handler.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thank you to the farmer's wife for the informative posting. They sure do everything on a LARGE scale in Arizona. XO Grandmommy