We at Creekside Farm have purchased straw bales from the Riley Brothers in Adams, Tennessee for 12 years. Within the last 2 years our straw has been delivered 21 bales to the bundle. This process of bundling has greatly reduced our labor costs. Load time is cut to minutes and on the site loading of our spreading trucks can all be done by machine. It is also a secure feeling to know that the 21 bales that are bundled together, placed on a flatbed truck with other large bundles and then bound down will travel safely down the interstate. We look forward to many years of using this great process. Thank you for your product.
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Our expectations of the Bale Band-It were well surpassed, just by the simple operation of the machine. Loading 21 bales at one time is awesome and not to mention fast and easy, especially with a loader tractor. When we were using our crews to pick up and stack the bales, we had to take from our contract jobs or use more labor. Now we use 2 people to make the hay and the rest of our crews are only working on payable contract jobs, not on the farm. On average we would handle 20,000 bales/year now with the bundles we are averaging 100,000 bales/year. We can load and strap 420 bales in less than 1 hour, that means one man loading and 1 man strapping. In the old day approximately 350 bales stacked on the same trailer using 5 men 3 hours, if the bales did not weigh over 40 lbs/bale. With the Bale Band-It we are up to approximately 65 lbs/bale. Stanley Bordelon
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