ASABE Adopts International Standard On Pick-up Balers

The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has adopted with deviations international standard ISO 4254-11:2010, Agricultural machinery —Safety — Part 11: Pick-up balers.

The ASABE document, ANSI/ASABE AD4254-11:2010 (JAN2012), Agricultural machinery – Safety – Part 11: Pick-up balers, was adopted to clarify the North American position related to baler guarding and pick-ups.

The adoption further harmonizes national and international standardization, a goal that facilitates manufacturing, safety advancements and product marketing worldwide, while the deviation recognizes those areas in which North American practices differ from those described in the ISO document.

ASABE has also revised its standard on the lighting and marking of agricultural equipment operating on a highway.

The revised standard, ANSI/ASAE S279.16, Lighting and Marking of Agricultural Equipment on Highways, corrects an inconsistency in the equation for measuring the spectrophotometric color values of the fluorescent materials. An additional change was also made to clarify nonreflective fluorescent material verses fluorescent material.

ASABE members with standards access and those with site-license privileges can access the full-text of the standards by electronic download at: elibrary.asabe.org.