scope:

This document, intended to be used together with ISO 4254-1, specifies the safety requirements and their verification for the design and construction of self-propelled and trailed pick-up balers, including when combined with bale wrappers, used in agriculture for pressing of material (such as forage, feedstock, straw), independent of the shape or size of the bales formed.

This document, taken together with ISO 4254-1, deals with all the significant hazards (as listed in Table 1), hazardous situations and events relevant to self-propelled and trailed pick-up balers and for balers when combined with bale wrappers, when they are used as intended and under the conditions of misuse that are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4).

NOTE 2 Pick-up balers with integrated bale wrappers are covered in this document, with the exception of the wrapping functions, which are covered in ISO 4254-14. Bale wrappers and the wrapping function of bale wrappers combined with pick-up balers, are covered in ISO 4254-14.