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grass clipping baler

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DRH

a few years ago I built a baler such as is seen on youtube , a.k.a. "pine straw baler" , the vertical one with manually compressed leverage. It works just fine for baling my grass clippings. I wanted to eliminate the series of manually compressing , so I made up a horizontal baler powered by compressed air.
I used an air cylinder with a 2 inch bore, 24 inch stroke, 5/8 dia rod. I fill my 30 gal. air compressor to 120 p.s.i. and trailer the baler and compressor to the "hay" pile.
I can make up about 16 bales before the compressor drops to about 60 p.s.i. then if I am not done yet I travel it back to an outlet and recharge the compressor. By then I am ready for a break from the routine anyway. this one is sized about the same as my vertical manual one, bales are about 12" x 17" x 24 " . the difference here though is that the front "door" and also the rear wall , are slotted. I could have made it to eject the bale out the end as the next one is forming, but chose to do it this way , making one bale at a time. I can easily push the loading section into the bale section by hand, after a few armloads I simply fill the loading section for the last time and then give it one stroke of compression.
Denny

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chobbs1957

chobbs1957

DRH said:
a few years ago I built a baler such as is seen on youtube , a.k.a. "pine straw baler" , the vertical one with manually compressed leverage. It works just fine for baling my grass clippings. I wanted to eliminate the series of manually compressing , so I made up a horizontal baler powered by compressed air.
I used an air cylinder with a 2 inch bore, 24 inch stroke, 5/8 dia rod. I fill my 30 gal. air compressor to 120 p.s.i. and trailer the baler and compressor to the "hay" pile.
I can make up about 16 bales before the compressor drops to about 60 p.s.i. then if I am not done yet I travel it back to an outlet and recharge the compressor. By then I am ready for a break from the routine anyway. this one is sized about the same as my vertical manual one, bales are about 12" x 17" x 24 " . the difference here though is that the front "door" and also the rear wall , are slotted. I could have made it to eject the bale out the end as the next one is forming, but chose to do it this way , making one bale at a time. I can easily push the loading section into the bale section by hand, after a few armloads I simply fill the loading section for the last time and then give it one stroke of compression.
Denny
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That's KEWL!

Next fix a pick up feed to put grass into it.

Thanks for sharing

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#3

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DRH

then the next would be to make it self propelled ............ I think we're on to something here..


#4

txzrider

txzrider

add a little genset to power the compressor... also my motor assy off my cyclone rake would give you a way to suck the grass up and dump it in the device. Of course you cant have my motor assy off my cyclone rake... just sayin'


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DRH

actually I needed to google up cyclone rake to see what one looks like..
that prompted me to add another thread I named lawn vacuum. check it out.
hey now, you've got me thinkin' !


#6

txzrider

txzrider

lol... the cool thing about the cyclone rake is the power unit has the suction pump part(for lack of a better way to describe it) attached to it. And it has hoses that attach to and from that part to either suck from the deck or from a long hose and a wand. They make another kit that gives you a hose to spray the grass somewhere else... in any case since the cyclone rake is collapsible the power unit comes off seperately and you can roll it around.


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DRH

sounds like you would be able to suck it from the hopper and blow it across the fenceline or into the woods.
that one is quite versatile, makes mine seem downright primitive.
I guess I would be able to set up a hose and wand to the blower intake of mine, might not be too hard to remove the discharge chute and put on an elbow and blow hose too. hmmm


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LarryJohnson

DRH said:
a few years ago I built a baler such as is seen on youtube , a.k.a. "pine straw baler" , the vertical one with manually compressed leverage. It works just fine for baling my grass clippings. I wanted to eliminate the series of manually compressing , so I made up a horizontal baler powered by compressed air.
I used an air cylinder with a 2 inch bore, 24 inch stroke, 5/8 dia rod. I fill my 30 gal. air compressor to 120 p.s.i. and trailer the baler and compressor to the "hay" pile.
I can make up about 16 bales before the compressor drops to about 60 p.s.i. then if I am not done yet I travel it back to an outlet and recharge the compressor. By then I am ready for a break from the routine anyway. this one is sized about the same as my vertical manual one, bales are about 12" x 17" x 24 " . the difference here though is that the front "door" and also the rear wall , are slotted. I could have made it to eject the bale out the end as the next one is forming, but chose to do it this way , making one bale at a time. I can easily push the loading section into the bale section by hand, after a few armloads I simply fill the loading section for the last time and then give it one stroke of compression.
Denny
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Very cool. Do you think a bale of mulched grass would stay together well. I've been considering building a manual baler but was concerned that my mulched grass bale would just fall apart. Too cheap to replace my mulching blades.


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