Balers
The balers traditionally were farm machineries used in compressing the crops raked and then turn these into bales. The twines bound these bales to prevent the compressed materials from scattering again. These equipment later on found importance on recycling process as most recycling companies used these in order to bale a number of recyclable materials such as plastics, cardboards, papers and many others. There are several types of these machines and the most common ones are the round baler, rectangular baler, square baler, wire baler and many others.
The round baler appears to be the most widely used among the different kinds of balers. This machine is able to produce rounded or rolled bales of materials with the used of its rollers and belts. The machine continues to roll and compress the materials up to a certain desired size and until which, the machine starts to bind and knot the rolled materials. After twining it, a part of the machine opens to discharge the bale. The weighing and the packaging of the bales then follow. Through time, the capacity of the machine increased, and today, each bale may weigh from 500 kilograms to more than a thousand kilograms, or even a ton or more now.
In addition, another familiar kind of the balers is the rectangular baler that similarly functions like that of the round baler but only that it produces rectangular bales. The main difference between the products of the round and the rectangular baler is that the rectangular bales are more compact and compressed and definitely weighs more than that of the round bales since it does not have holes. In addition, the rectangular bales are easier to transport using a flatbed trailer unlike the round bales where you have to secure these bales in order for them not to roll off the truck. In terms of storage space, the rectangular bales also consume lesser space than that of the rolled bales.
There is also the square baler, which is more similar to that of the rectangular baler. Among the types of balers, the square baler seem to be the most practical baler since it produces bale that can be hand carried or dragged. Most of these machines are simple machines and very easy to handle. Likewise, the materials baled are also easy to carry since these do not weight much. There is also the wire baler which auto-ties the bales produced by the machine. Unlike in the old days where the machine operators or the farm workers had to tie manually the bales, today's balers have a mechanism that automatically ties the bales it produces.
At present, the balers have become more sophisticated to handle different loads and different materials. There are also numerous other types of these machines available at present to include among others: auto tie baler, vertical baler, horizontal baler, tube baler, two ram baler and many others. Most of these machines require less supervision during operation. The designs of the machines enable them to provide maximum output and efficiency.
