Currently the global practice is to collect branches that remain in orchards and vineyards after maintenance pruning sporadically, using specially designed conventional hay balers. The EuroPruning project implemented in the Industrial Institute of Agricultural Engineering (PIMR) in Poznań involved developing the construction of a new machine for compressing branches remaining in orchards and vineyards after maintenance pruning into round bales. The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy and quality of work of the developed research model of PRB 1.75 baler and to identify basic operational parameters of the machine. The tests involved determining the level of power consumption of the machine at idle and during normal operation. The amounts of branches left by the machine in inter-rows have also been measured, thus determining the losses of material. The average area performance of the machine obtained during the tests was 1.25 ha·h-1 and the average value of losses amounted to approx. 24%. As the bale chamber filled up, power consumption slowly increased from approx. 3 kW at the beginning of the collection of branches to the maximum of approx. 40 kW at the final stage of bale formation before proceeding to its wrapping.