From Chopping to Wrapping: Victor’s Next Step

Victor farms in Kinoo, Kiambu, and runs a feed preservation business in Narok. He already chops and prepares silage material for a living. His next machine — a diesel-powered LUCTORC silage baler wrapper — is being tested at the factory right now, tagged with his own name. Here is that test.

A working dairy farm in Kinoo

The cows are fed from mangers built along the length of a covered shed, morning and evening. It is a working farm rather than a showpiece — the kind of operation most of our customers in Kenya actually run, built up over time rather than set up for a photograph.

Chopping feed is already part of the work

Before a baler ever enters the picture, the crop has to be chopped to a length that will pack and ferment properly. This is the stage Victor has already been running through his feed preservation business.

The next step: baling and wrapping his own feed

Victor's next move closes that gap: pressing the chopped material into bales and sealing them in film himself, rather than waiting on someone else's baler. He has ordered a diesel-powered LUCTORC silage baler wrapper. It is currently undergoing testing before dispatch.

What the factory test shows

Before a machine ships, LUCTORC runs it through a working cycle at the factory — the video above. Victor's unit was tagged “Kenya Kiambu Victor” throughout, so there is no question which order it belongs to; the two stills here are from that same recording, the bale part-wrapped and further into the same pass.

This is a factory test filmed in China before shipping, not a farm trial — it shows the machine completing its cycle, not output figures under Kinoo conditions. What Victor gets out of it on his own farm, with his own chopped material, is the next chapter of this story.