portion of the rotating arm 14 with the pallet abutting the gripper housing 18 to begin a free end of the film web 34 is clamped by the gripping members 50 once the pallet is in position the rotating arm 14 begins to rotate thereby wrapping the pallet and the items on the pallet with the film web 34 with the wrap machine 10 of the present invention the lowest portion of the stretch wrapping device 16 can get very close to the ground because the stretch wrapping device only has to clear the ribbon wire 52 in the lowest portion of rotation therefore the pallet does not have to be raised off of the ground and or the gripping members 50 do not have to be located in the ground to be able to wrap the pallet previously the pallet was placed on a platform and or the gripping members 50 were located in the ground to be able to wrap the pallet additionally the gripper housing 18 has a height of about 3 to 3 25 inches thereby allowing the film web 34 to be wrapped about the pallet without the gripper housing 18 interfering as the stretch wrapping device 16 spins about the items on the pallet moving vertically to wrap the all of the items the gripping members 50 can release the free end of the film web 34 thereafter when all of the items on the pallet have been wrapped the rotating arm 14 can move back to an initial position that the rotating arm 14 was in before the wrap sequence begun thereafter the gripping members 50 can once again be activated to grab the film web 34 between the items on the pallet and the stretch wrapping device.