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Traveling Tree Baler Works Well

During the spring of 1965, the James W. Toumey Nursery converted its equipment to conveyor belt tables for grading, counting, and threading of seedling and transplant stock (fig. 1) . A metal revolving baler was selected to replace the previously used Olson-type baler. However, with this equipment the line people would be grading faster than one baler machine could package the stock. Instead of mounting another stationary revolving metal baler, we constructed a mobile baler (figs. 2, 3, and 4) with the following ad vantages:


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Author(s): Stuart H. Slayton

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 19, Number 4 (1969)

Volume: 19

Number: 4