Now 50 years old, Orkel are a design-led engineering company based south of Trondheim in Norway. They are probably most well known for their chopped material balers and rugged trailers.

• 1986 -The first company in the world to introduce chopped material in round bales.

• 1997 -The first (and only) company in the world to introduce bushings on round balers. Up to 3 years warranty on bushings in 2001!

• The first company in the market to introduce the APF - appetite feeding - for cows.

• The first company in the market to introduce an industrial maize baler.

• 2001 -Launched the "no bottle-neck" snow blower - the Orkel SK 2610



Now you can big bale crimp

New Orkel short fibre baler

This new design of short fibre baler will be of interest to the contractor who would like to bale sugar beet pulp, brewers grains, maize silage - and crimped again. The fully automatic machine will turn out a wrapped bale every 90 seconds. All you have to do is make sure the trough is kept filled.

It enables farmers to inter-trade and add value to feeds without going through a merchant. Farmers can harvest their main crop of maize or crimped grain and then through the winter the baler can be used to bale from the clamp.

We see the main benefits as:

• bale weight of up to 1 1/2 tonnes

• ideal for protein crops in small tonnages

• use for making up TMR diet to sell on

•enables small farmers to feed high energy diet

• cut down feed miles

• no bearings within bale chamber

• fully automatic greasing unit. Bushes
gauranteed for 30,000 bales/3 years

Kelvin Cave Ltd are the UK agents for this machine.



A 120HP tractor is needed. The trough is filled
and the elevator transports the material into the
pressure chamber. A sensor shuts off the elevator once it is full



The bale has been compacted and netted with four layers to prevent crumbling