baler

Then you run a baler over that and it leaves a row of straw bales in the field.

My tractor is from 1996, my hay baler from the early 70s and my hay cutter is even older.

They are trying to emulate their parents and seam like a baler to their friends.

This was ok with the ancient baler, but when that broke and he borrowed another the bales were twice as heavy, which isn't fun when the pile on the trailer is 9ft high.

In the summer I helped him replace the complex system of belts in a hay baler.

Tractors do not need huge engines to be useable on the farm, this is only needed for 3-swathe mowers, 10-row ploughs, high-speed baler/wrappers etc.

And then maybe someday combines would have a baler on them?

The John Deere twine baler redirects to Deere's home page.

He found the caps in front of the baler.

Despite saying the above for years it never occurred to him to invent the large square baler which the same concept (haul with a tractor), but stack better.

Truck to haul water and wheat, tractor to summerfallow and seed, tractor pulling baler to bale hay and straw, swather to lay down rows of barley and wheat, combine to harvest.

They might not handle 16-bottom plows or even a round baler but they're still damn good machines for basic work and they're simple enough to maintain that even I could do it.

Following the "John Deere" style brand lock-in strategy: "Sure the Kubota is half the price and I can fix it myself, but all of my implements work with my Deere." And unless I switch over the tractor, the combine, the baler.

- in farming school we had to watch a video of all the stuff that happens on farms complete with images and graphic explanations, stuff like: "here the neighbor came down in the evening to find out why the tractor and the baler was standing in the middle of the field, engine running in the night.