The Royal Welsh Grassland event to be held in Four Crosses next month will see a demonstration of new machinery for bale wrapping.

The show, on May 16, will have KUHN Farm Machinery demonstrating its high capacity round bale wrapper, the RW 1810, which has a 30 per cent faster cycle time compared to the previous RW 1800 round bale wrappers, plus features which include autoload capability, as well as wrapping up to 100 bales per hour with six layers of film on a 1.25m bale.

Two high speed satellite wrapping arms rotate at up to 40 rpm during wrapping and apply 70 per cent pre-stretch to the film as standard to produce a tightly bound bale.

The amount of pre-stretch can also be reduced to 60 per cent where necessary and the wrapper can be set to automatically stop or operate at half speed if one of the film rolls tears or runs out.

KUHN’s autoload facility enables the new machine to quickly, gently and automatically load, wrap and unload round bales of up to 1,400kg in weight and up to 160cm in diameter without any operator input and without the need for the tractor and baler to come to a standstill. This not only increases overall capacity, but also reduces fuel consumption and prevents operator fatigue.

The RW 1810 is an inline baler wrapper so can be operated behind a tractor or directly behind a baler.

The RW 1810 will be in action at the Royal Welsh Grassland Event alongside a wide variety of KUHN mowers, mower conditioners, tedders, rakes, balers and baler-wrapper combinations.

For more information visit www.royalwelshgrasslandevent.com