Technical animation of hay baler mechanism - video

[Jon]

Impressive technical animation of the inner workings of a hay baler. 2:29 video:

Previously:

Bale spreader - GIF
Bale slicer - GIF
hay bale wrapper GIF
Bale handling and wrapping - video
Hauling hay bale - GIF

[Frank S]

It took someone quite a while to cad all those parts then assemble and animate them

[metric_taper]

The mechanism that always intrigued me was the twine knot-er. As a kid I would manually cycle a New Holland 68 baler to watch the knot tying (~1966). And I've seen this same mechanism in 1930's shock tying horse drawn machinery. I wonder how many prototypes were made to get that to work.

[Frank S]

The mechanism that always intrigued me was the twine knot-er. As a kid I would manually cycle a New Holland 68 baler to watch the knot tying (~1966). And I've seen this same mechanism in 1930's shock tying horse drawn machinery. I wonder how many prototypes were made to get that to work.

I hear ya, our bailer used wire so it was a simple twist action, I prefer wired bales as the wire has many uses after wards where as the twine not so many

[Tooler2]

The interesting part here for me is the accumulation of hay under the plunger until somehow it knows there is sufficient material to kick it up in front of the next stroke. I wonder how they ensure equal distribution over the 3' high chamber?