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Recordist's notes
This is the sound of the baling machine, which is a massive mechanism, mounted on a trailer, attached to a tractor. It lifts up a bale of straw and then tightly wraps it in plastic; the whirring sound is of the arms stretching and wrapping plastic tightly around the bale. It is a slightly terrifying and very noisy sound, but also I imagine this device to be essential when it comes time to bale up the straw.
About the place
Reading is a city of about 318,014 people in England, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 153 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “Field, Amners Farm, Burghfield, UK - The baling machine” by Felicity Ford – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0