To Form a Bigger Bale
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Since 1905, the Department of Agricultural Engineering, now the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE), has been a leader in providing engineering solutions to agricultural problems in the United States and the world. The department’s original mission was to mechanize agriculture. That mission has evolved to encompass a global view of the entire food production system–the wise management of natural resources in the production, processing, storage, handling, and use of food fiber and other biological products.
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In 1905 Agricultural Engineering was recognized as a subdivision of the Department of Agronomy, and in 1907 it was recognized as a unique department. It was renamed the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering in 1990. The department merged with the Department of Industrial Education and Technology in 2004.
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1905–present
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- Department of Agricultural Engineering (1907–1990)
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- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (parent college)
- College of Engineering (parent college)
- Department of Industrial Education and Technology, (merged, 2004)
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Our goal in this project is a completely mechanized hay handling system in which one machine can build and transport a giant package that needs little or no protection from the weather. This would be accomplished by a machine that could form bales up to 6 ft in diameter and 7 1/2 ft long by picking up a windrow of hay and wrapping it on powered spindles. Bale density would be controlled by the pressure and resulting friction between the bale and bale chamber. Bales could be unloaded when completed, then reloaded later by lifting them with the spindle-arm combination. They could then be transported to the storage area. Perhaps to feed the bales, they could even be rotated in reverse in the Bale chamber and the hay stripped from the bales with a feeder attachment.
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This article is published as Haverdink, Virgil and Wesley F. Buchele. "To Form a Bigger Bale," Agricultural Engineering 50 (1969): 683. Posted with permission.