baling
Making compact bundles
Baling is the process of compressing material into compact bundles called bales.
Most commonly refers to agricultural work—baling hay or straw for storage and transport: We spent the afternoon baling hay.
The term extends to compacting other materials: baling cotton, baling recycled cardboard.
A baling hook helps handle finished bales.
Dried feed crop
- strawTube for sipping
- twineStranded cord for tying
- forageSeek food actively
- silageFermented crop fodder
fodder · alfalfa · tractor · barn · field · meadow · pasture · livestock
Pressing material denser
- strappingMuscular and hale
- bindingLegally or morally required
- wrappingOuter covering material
- bundlingGrouping items as one
pallets · containers · crates · shrink-wrap · polyethylene · corrugated · compression · stacking
hay
Dried feed crop
silage · fodder · alfalfa · tractor · barn · field · meadow · pasture · livestock · cattle
compacting
Pressing material denser
bundling · pallets · containers · crates · shrink-wrap · polyethylene · corrugated · compression · stacking · loading
haystack
Piled dried grass
autumn · combine · grain · crop · fieldwork · farmhand · winnowing · husbandry · scythe · sickle
recycling
Reprocessing used materials
- compactorMachine that compresses materials
- wasteUnwanted discarded material
- cardboardRigid paper for containers
paper · plastic · metal · textiles · landfill · sustainability · compression · sorting · shredding · processing
- compressioncompress, compression, compressor, compressing, compact
- harvestreaping, fall harvest, wheat sheaf, reaper, reap
- manual laborfarming, lifting, carrying, shoveling, loading
- ranchingcattle, ranch, rancher, ranchers, ranching
- recyclingrecycle, recycling, recycling bin, recycle bin, recycling bins
- farmworkharvesting, farmworkers, planting, farm labor, crop farming
balingscattering
Distribution in many directions
dispersing · spreading · unbaling · loosening · separating
balingflooding
Overwhelming water accumulation
filling · swamping · letting in · taking on water · sinking
- bubble gum and baling wire
- baling wireWire for bundling hay
- baling outEmergency aircraft abandonment
- hay balingCompacting dried grasses for storage
- spit and baling wireImprovised temporary repair methods
- baling twineRough string for bundles