Quote Originally Posted by hobo finds View Post
When you bale these how many are you putting in at a time? When you are waiting to add more do you keep the bale compacted? What about caps I think you would want them loose so the air can go out.
For this first bale I crushed a bunch of bottles by stepping on them then put them in the baler until it was full. I pressed down on them as far as it would go then brought the press head back up again and put some more bottles in until it was full then pressed it down again and made a bail. I took the caps of completely, but now that I think about it I should just loosen the caps. After I let up the pressure the bottle sprung back up a lot so I didn't get that much room to put more bottles in. If the caps were only loosed they wouldn't spring back up as quickly. Doing it that way should make it much easier to form dense bales.