The introduction of the Bale Express bale collecting trailer was a welcome piece of engineering, because, up until then, loading small square bales was a largely physical chore. While there were sleighs for randomly grouping bales or bale throwers attached to balers that could chuck the packs into trailers, they still demanded a significant amount of manual labour.
At the same time as many UK farmers were running the flat-eight system of sleighs and grabs, German firm Maschinenfabrik Kemper in Stadtlohn presented a different, and some would argue overly complicated solution with its first bale collecting trailer in 1973. This machine was later manufactured