Farms and Farm Machinery

it’s a wrap

It is the perfect time of year to satisfy curiosity. With the welcome onset of spring and daylight savings, the extra grass growth many regions have experienced means it’s now time to focus on the management of surplus for use at a later date.

This means long hours, often around the clock, for contractors as they turn this grass into high-quality supplement feed for farmers. Commonly spotted behind contractor tractors are the McHale Fusion balers, so it was no great difficulty to take a closer look at one in action.

PICKUP

The split drive gearbox divides power evenly between the rollers in the chamber, the pickup and the chopper unit. Like many, McHale has opted for camless pickup as a standard

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