Bale Band Tighteners: numbered illustrations of bale-binding machines – Vintage Print
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This rare historic image captures Bale Band Tighteners: numbered illustrations of bale-binding machines in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Bale Band Tighteners: numbered illustrations of bale-binding machines
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Bale band tighteners were the small mechanical parts that pulled and locked the wire or twine around a bundle of hay or straw as it left the baler, and this picture sets out their working parts as a set of numbered illustrations. Each number points to a single component, so the drawings read like a parts key more than a scene. Agricultural engineering of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries relied on such diagrams, since farmers and repair shops had to identify worn pieces by name when ordering replacements. Looking at the labels closely shows how much of a baler's reliability depended on these modest tightening mechanisms.
| Original scan | 4,027 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 8e04648u Page from The Growth of |
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