BUSCHUTZ ENGINEERING PTY. LTD.

 HAY COMPACTORS  

Hay compacters were produced for exporting Australian Oaten Hay and Lucerne. The 40' containers used for exporting goods are allowed 26 tonne net weight so the hay had to be compacted to get the desirable container weight for economic purposes.

Buschutz Engineering has been manufacturing hay compactors for over 10 years now. Early compactors were very simple; they compacted small 355 by 460 by 915mm field bales made by a small square baler.

The units conveyed two small bales onto a platform along side of the compactor and it self loaded onto the bed with a compactor cylinder of 100 – 120 tonne pressure would compact the product to a length of about 500mm. Steel straps were then hand wrapped around the product with the product finally being ejected, this was called ‘Double Dumping’. The compacted bale would weigh around 42 – 50 kgs. These hay compacting plants would use up to 12 personnel.

This method achieved the desired results but was very labor intensive and slow eg. Every ‘Double Dumping’ would take approximately 60 seconds. This would take about 10 hours to fill each container. This proved to be too inefficient.

In the early nineties a system using large square bales was adapted. This meant field baling was more efficient loading and carrying much quicker. The hay compactor had to be redesigned to accommodate the new trends. Buschutz decided to produce a range of compactors and equipment to do this purpose.

The large 8’ by 4’ by 4’ bales are teased out through a double conveyor and a teasing head. The conveyors are variable speeds that allow the product to be blended to customer’s requirements. The material is then conveyed to a baling machine this can be a small square baler (with the knotters and needles removed). Or custom built baling machines. This creates a ‘sausage’ of hay down a batching chute parallel to the compactor onto a loading table. This loading table has load cells fitted to measure and batch the product ready to enter the compactor. These compactors have up to 360 tonnes of thrust on the main cylinder and have a cylinder time of up to 14 – 15 seconds

 350 tonne hay press for Milne's stockfeeds, WA  

  Milne's press being loaded    

After the product has been compacted it is ejected through a strapping chute where a strapping head is either indexed over a set of restricting paddles or the bale itself can be indexed. These strapped bales are approximately 46kgs.

 

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