the apex outlet of the cyclone and entering into a suitable packaging equipment such as a baler application_number US 749279 A description fig1 and 2 schematically illustrate the operation and arrangement of equipment comprising the present invention the equipment includes a pick up device 10 which may be a rake type pick up conventionally used to pick up swaths of grain in the field normally the flax will have been harvested and the flax straw left in rows or swaths in the field in any event the pick up 10 collects flax straw from the row or swaths of flax straw schematically illustrated 12 and passes it onto the ramp 14 which has a pair of substantially vertical belt conveyers 16 and 18 positioned one on each side thereof preferably each of these conveyers is pivotedably mounted adjacent the pick up 10 and has its end remote from the pick up 10 movable toward and away from and biased toward the other of said conveyers via spring means schematically indicated at 15 fig2 in the illustrated arrangement the arrows 20 indicates such movement for the conveyers 16 and 18 this movement meters the flow of straw and ensures that the flax straw is gripped and fed by the belt conveyers 16 and 18 into a shredder generally indicated at 22 the conveyers 16 and 18 are driven by suitable hydraulic motors indicated at 21 fig2 the conveyer 16 on the side of the shredder 22 leading in the direction of rotation is provided with a deflection plate 17 which moves with the free end of the conveyer.