Method and an apparatus for building up a ground store of pressed vegetable material

Abstract From the Canadian patent

For building up a protected store of pressed vegetable material on the ground ordinary prepressed bales of the material are picked up by means of a tractor loader and are successively put through a sausage funnel element as carrying a store of a retractable plastic sheet hose whereby a long row of bales are stored sausagewise. The funnel element is moved stepwise forwardly by means of the tractor to consecutively provide the necessary space in the hose for the next bale to be introduced. The tractor loader may be provided with equipment for applying a treating fluid to the bales during the handling thereof, and the bales thus treated, are then stored in a practically sealed manner in the …