Installation
An install that goes badly is remembered for years. Most of the work happens before the truck arrives.
Site review
Measurements, access route, ceiling height, door and corridor clearance, floor condition, power availability, and where finished bales or containers will be staged. This is where problems get found cheaply.
Configuration & scheduling
Final equipment configuration confirmed against the site, then scheduled around your operating hours. Receiving docks are busiest when you can least afford to lose them.
Delivery & placement
Rigging and positioning, including the awkward part — getting a heavy machine through a building that was not designed around it.
Power & connection
Electrical connection coordinated with your electrician or facilities team, and confirmation that the service at the wall matches what the machine needs.
Commissioning
Cycle testing, pressure and safety checks, and verification that the machine performs as specified before it is handed over.
Operator orientation
Walking the people who will actually use it through loading, cycling, tying, safe practice and what to do when something jams. This is the single highest-return hour of the whole project.
Handover documentation
Manuals, safety information and service contact details left with the site, not just emailed to whoever signed the purchase order.
Four things that derail installations.
The doorway
The machine fits the room but not the route to the room. Measured early, this is a non-event. Measured late, it is a returned delivery.
The panel
Available electrical service does not match the machine. Confirming this at the survey stage avoids an install that stops halfway.
The bale exit
Nobody planned where finished bales go or how they leave. A baler with nowhere to stage output creates a new congestion problem.
The contract
New equipment is installed while the old hauling schedule is still contractually locked in, delaying any savings by months.
Nichols to confirm what is included in a standard installation versus quoted separately (rigging, electrical work, permits, concrete pad, disposal of replaced equipment), whether site surveys are free, lead times from order to install, and which territories Nichols installs in directly.
Planning an install?
The earlier we see the space, the fewer surprises there are.