Longsleddale: haymaking 20090611 | ||
site name:- | Middle Sadgill | |
locality:- | Sadgill | |
civil parish:- | Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | agriculture | |
coordinates:- | NY482057 | |
1Km square:- | NY4805 | |
10Km square:- | NY40 | |
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MN photo:- |
Wrapping big bales of hay to put by for silage or haylage. The big bales have been
laid out in a convenient row. A tractor is used with a 'bale wrap', which picks up
a bale, rotates it about a vertical axis at the same time rolling it about a horizontal
axis so that it wrapped in black polythene, and deposits it off the back, the tractor
having been driven forward to the next bale. |
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A second tractor with a bale lift on the front took bales away to stack. |
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BQT56.jpg (taken 11.6.2009) BQT57.jpg (taken 11.6.2009) BQT58.jpg (taken 11.6.2009) BQT59.jpg As the platform holding the big bale rotates it pulls a polythene strip off a vertical drum to wrap the bale, the bale is slowly turned about its own axis so that it is eventually covered completely. (taken 11.6.2009) BQT60.jpg (taken 11.6.2009) BQT61.jpg (taken 11.6.2009) BQT62.jpg (taken 11.6.2009) BQT63.jpg (taken 11.6.2009) BQT64.jpg (taken 11.6.2009) BQT65.jpg (taken 11.6.2009) BQT66.jpg (taken 11.6.2009) BQT67.jpg (taken 11.6.2009) BQT68.jpg (taken 11.6.2009) |
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A lot of effort goes into dealing with discarded wrapping when the bale is unwrapped
and the silage used. But ... some inevitably escapes and ends up draped on trees or
fences. |
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