The plastic layer extends over the ends of the bale to form a ring of plastic approximately wide on the ends, with hay exposed in the center.

The plastic may wrap the whole of each cylindrical or cuboid bale, or be wrapped around only the curved sides of a cylindrical bale, leaving the ends uncovered.

In the UK, baled silage is most often made in round bales about 4 feet by 4 feet, individually wrapped with four to six layers of " bale wrap plastic " ( black, white or green 25 micrometre stretch film ).

Handling of wrapped bales is most often with some type of gripper that squeezes the plastic-covered bale between two metal parts to avoid puncturing the plastic.

The bales are complete at this stage, but they may also be wrapped in plastic sheeting by a bale wrapper, either to keep hay dry when stored outside or convert damp grass into silage.

Video: Picking up and applying plastic cling wrap to a round bale.

A recent innovation in hay storage has been the development of the silage or haylage bale, which is a high-moisture bale wrapped in plastic film.

This roll of plastic is mounted in a sliding shuttle on a steel arm and can move parallel to the bale axis, so the operator does not need to hold up the heavy roll of plastic.

To stretch the cling-wrap plastic tightly over the bale, the tension is actively adjusted with a knob on the end of the roll, which squeezes the ends of the roll in the shuttle.

The operator recovers by quickly loosening the tension and allows the plastic to feed out halfway around the bale before reapplying the tension to the sheeting.

The plastic wrap on the ends of each bale sticks together to seal out air and moisture, protecting the silage from the elements.

They can also be moved using a standard bale spike, but this punctures the airtight seal, and the hole in the film must be repaired after each move.

The sport is also very popular on the eastern side of the Adriatic, especially in Slovenia ( where it is known as balinanje or colloquial playing boče or bale from Italian bocce or palle meaning balls ), Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina ( in Serbo-Croatian known under the name of boćanje or simply playing boće ( colloquial also bućanje or playing balote ), originating in Italian boccie ).

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

It is usually gathered and stored in a straw bale, which is a bundle of straw tightly bound with twine or wire.

Straw is an abundant agricultural waste product, and requires little energy to bale and transport for construction.

Millard County is working hard to make it easier to build Earthships, straw bale homes, and other ecological and sustainable housing.

Edna tells him that he must be proud of him, as black or white the fact is that he was the man who brought the first bale of cotton that year, and that he should never forget this.

Because of the festival, the Woolly Worm is usually associated with Beattyville, the " official " Woolly Worm Festival mascot is named " Woolly the Woolly Worm ", he appears on some merchandise and flyers, and there is usually a round hay bale caricature of him beside a sign that says " Welcome To Beattyville.

Mattawa is also home to the first straw bale library in the United States.

A shedhand, known as a wool presser, places the wool into approved wool packs in a wool press to produce a bale of wool that must meet regulations concerning its fastenings, length, weight and branding if it is to be sold at auction in Australasia.

That the name originated from beugal ( old spelling of Bügel, meaning bail / bow or bale ) is considered plausible by many, both from the similarities of the word and because traditional handmade bagels are not perfectly circular but rather slightly stirrup-shaped.

During May the annual New England Wool Expo is staged to display wool fashions, handicrafts, demonstrations, shearing competitions, yard dog trials and demonstrations, a wool bale rolling competition and other activities.

The wrapping may be performed by a bale wrapper, while the baled silage is handled using a bale handler or a front-loader, either impaling the bale on a flap, or by using a special grab.

The continuous " sausage " referred to above is made with a special machine which wraps the bales as they are pushed through a rotating hoop which applies the bale wrap to the outside of the bales ( round or square ) in a continuous wrap.

This straw bale house plastered with loam is located in Swalmen, in the southeastern Netherlands

Alternatively, bale buildings can have a structural frame of other materials, usually lumber or timber-frame, with bales simply serving as insulation and plaster substrate, (" infill " or " non-loadbearing " technique ), which is most often required in northern regions and / or in wet climates.

Additionally, the inclusion of a skeletal framework of wood or metal allows the erection of a roof prior to raising the bales, which can protect the bale wall during construction, when it is the most vulnerable to water damage in all but the most dependably arid climates.

Depew was painted by a number of artists, including George Burroughs Torrey, but most frequently by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury who first painted Depew in 1889-90, the three-quarter length portrait of Depew seated on a bale of furs which was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1890, and is now in the Yale Club of New York City.

Montero had set up a strong position, using every bale and box we had in addition to barricades of logs and brush.

A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it didn't seem possible they were in flight.

Oso reached up, jerked the buck from the bale and snapped his neck.

Although my shot killed his horse, he rolled off the bale on top of me.

`` Sommers, you bale while we row '', Brassnose commanded.

" In the later Middle English spelling balle the word coincided graphically with the French balle " ball " and " bale " which has hence been erroneously assumed to be its source.

By the late 1700s a number of crude ginning machines had been developed, however, to produce a bale of cotton required over 600 hours of human labor, making large scale production uneconomical in the United States, even with the use of humans as slave labor.

The gin that Whitney manufactured ( the Holmes design ) reduced the hours down to just a dozen or so per bale.

It can be used, alone or in a post-and-beam construction, to build straw bale houses.

Sobinski flies the plane to Scotland, where Bronski causes a little surprise when he parachutes into a farmer's bale of hay in his Hitler costume and makeup.

During her wait in the bank, Edna sees pictures of the Ellis County prize of $ 100 for the first bale of cotton brought in to the gin.

Edna orders him to hire extra pickers, but can pay them only if they win the prize for the first bale.

The museum claims the oldest compressed bale of cotton in existence in the United States.

Each year in summer the village holds The Oxenhope Straw Race, a team event in which competitors complete a 2. 5-mile course around the village carrying a bale of straw and stopping at each pub on the route for a pint of beer.

The fayre also includes a contest called " Tossing the Sheaf " where local men compete to see who can toss a bale of straw the highest over a raised bar.

Sports include stone lifting, wood cutting, or hay bale lifting.