Central Alberta Hay Center

Over the last decade, McHale has designed and developed various types of pick-ups. After extensive testing, McHale decided it will offer customers the choice of 2 pick-up options depending on their working conditions:

The specially designed McHale pick-up is positioned close to the rotor to improve delivery of the crop through the rotor to the bale chamber. Large diameter lateral feed augers help direct crop to the bale chamber ensuring a consistent and even crop flow for producing high density bales.

Over the course of a baling season, machines have to work with different volumes of crop. McHale have designed an adaptive intake which allows the intake area to automatically adjust for light and heavy crops to facilitate a smooth crop flow into the chamber.

A 540rpm Split Drive Gearbox is fitted to all machines in the McHale Fixed Chamber Range as standard. The gearbox design ensures that power is evenly distributed to both sides of the machine.

The star shaped twin feeder feed rotor ensures a high-capacity flow of crop into the bale chamber. McHale have designed three rotors for the Fixed Chamber Baler Range:

The bale chamber on the McHale F5-560 Plus is comprised of an 18 roller bale chamber. It has a diameter of 1.23m x 1.25m (4′ ½” x 4′ 1¼”) and is formed from heavy duty rollers.

The McHale fixed chamber range of balers are all fitted with a continuous oiling system. Once the PTO is engaged, the continuous oiling system constantly lubricates the chains to ensure a long lifetime. A lube alarm sounds after 300 bales to inform the operator to refill the oil tank.

McHale have created their highest output pick-up for the F5 range. The new Profi-Flo pick-up has been designed to increase crop intake through more efficient crop flow and has been engineered to ensure end users are operating with a high-performance pick-up that is designed to suit various working conditions.

A high performance netter has been designed and developed for the F5-500 range. All F5-560 Plus machines come equipped with an Infinite Stretch Binding System.

Net loading has been optimised on the F5000 baler range by the simple yet very effective rock and roll net loading system.

The F5400 is equipped with a Wizard control box containing all the functionality required to operate the machine.

McHale machines work in different conditions around the world. To optimise machine performance, we offer a number of options in the McHale Fixed Chamber Baler range. We recommend you speak with your local dealer/distributor as regards the best configuration to meet your requirements.

To ensure a consistent and even chop quality, two chopping options have been developed for the McHale fixed chamber machines.

All McHale F5-560 Plus machines have the option to be fitted with a selectable knife system. Various knife configurations can be chosen depending on the knife bank specification.

For over a decade, all machines in the fixed chamber baler range are fitted with the McHale Drop Floor Unblocking System, a feature which operators have come to love for it’s simplicity of use and effective unblocking cycle.

All McHale F5 machines are ISOBUS compatible as standard. McHale ISOBUS machines can be plugged into any ISOBUS tractor connection and operated via the tractor’s own terminal in the cab.

If the customer wishes to operate an ISOBUS controlled machine with a tractor that is not ISOBUS compatible, they can do so through the optional McHale ISO-PLAY terminal.

The concept of putting film on the barrel of the bale is known as “Film binding technology.” The plastic which is applied to the barrel of the bale doubles as a wrapping layer across the largest surface of the bale, whilst also binding the bale together.