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The typical early horse-drawn hay rake was a dump rake, a wide two-wheeled implement with curved steel or iron teeth usually operated from a seat mounted over the rake with a lever-operated lifting mechanism. This rake gathered cut hay into windrows by repeated operation perpendicular to the windrow, requiring the operator to raise the rake ...
Forage harvesters can be implements attached to a tractor, [4] or they can be self-propelled units. In either configuration, they comprise a drum (cutterhead) or a flywheel [5] with a number of knives fixed to it that chops and blows the silage out of a chute of the harvester into a wagon that is either connected to the harvester or to another vehicle driving alongside.
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The bag is loaded using the same forage harvesting methods as the tower, but the forage wagon must be moved progressively forward with the bag loader. The loader uses an array of rotating cam-shaped spiraled teeth associated with a large comb-shaped tines to push forage into the bag. The forage is pushed in through a large opening, and as the ...
In this case, the bales are placed tightly end to end on the ground, making a long continuous "sausage" of silage, often at the side of a field. The wrapping may be performed by a bale wrapper , while the baled silage is handled using a bale handler or a front-loader , either impaling the bale on a flap, or by using a special grab.
The U.S. Surgeon General's warning of an increased risk of cancer from drinking alcohol may end up resonating most with younger Americans - who in recent years were already turning to mocktails ...
Ohio State offensive coordinator Chip Kelly watches warm-ups before the game against Indiana on Nov. 23, 2024. He is among USA TODAY Sports' most overpaid college football assistant coaches.
June 2009 silo filling on Ken Mahalko's dairy farm near Ruby, WI, using a John Deere 4020, New Holland forage harvester, and Gehl forage wagon. 2009 has been a dry spring so there's not much plant material on the ground. Fresh-cut grasses have a moisture content of about 90% which in a silo would result in silage juice liquid leaking out the ...