Abstract: A method for field processing includes mowing, via a mowing machine having at least one mower, a crop within a processing area so as to provide a mown crop. At least one mowing parameter is determined for each position of a plurality of positions within the processing area. The at least one mowing parameter has a mower parameter which relates to the at least one mower and which is associated with an area density of the crop. The mown crop is processed via a cropmaking machine which has at least one processing device. At least one cropmaking parameter which characterizes an operation of the cropmaking machine is set as a function of a position of the cropmaking machine.

Abstract: A binding needle for a needle yoke of a bale press. The binding needle includes a mounting element which mounts to a rocker support of the needle yoke, a guide element which at least indirectly guides a strand-shaped binder, and a needle body which is made of a metal. The needle body is at least partially formed by a pipe profile which defines a profile interior. The needle body is arranged to extend from the mounting element to the guide element and to run at least in sections in a manner of an arc along a plane of curvature so as to define an inside of the arc and an outside of the arc.

Abstract: A tool for mounting a chopping knife to a chopping drum. The tool includes a clamping mechanism for releasably fixing the tool in an auxiliary bore of the chopping drum, a frame, an adjusting element, and a positioning element. The clamping mechanism is reversibly adjustable from a basic state, in which the clamping mechanism is unclamped, to a clamping state, in which the clamping mechanism is clamped. The adjusting element is reversibly displaceable relative to the clamping mechanism and/or the frame in a displacement direction along a displacement axis. The adjusting element reversibly adjusts the clamping mechanism from the basic state to the tensioned state. The positioning device positions the chopping knife on the chopping drum.

Abstract: A haymaking machine for tedding or raking agricultural stalk or leaf material includes a tedding or raking rotor arranged on a machine beam. The tedding or raking rotor is rotated about a vertical axis when working/operating. The tedding or raking rotor includes two tine arms aligned approximately radially which are uniformly distributed in a circumferential direction about the vertical axis, a first spring tine having a first length arranged on the two tine arms, a second spring tine having a second length arranged on the at least two tine arms, a first measuring device which interacts with the first spring tine, and a second measuring device which interacts with the second spring tine. The second length is smaller than the first length. The first measuring device measures a force acting on the first spring tine. The second measuring device measures a force acting on the second spring tine.

Abstract: A haymaking machine includes a frame, a turning or raking rotor and a sensor arranged on the frame, and a control device. In a working position, the turning or raking rotor is drivable relative to the frame about an axis of rotation in a direction of rotation. The turning or raking rotor has tine arms which have tines. The tine arms are aligned at least temporarily to face the ground. The tine arms are arranged uniformly distributed in a circumferential direction around the axis of rotation and are aligned in an approximately radial direction with respect to the axis of rotation. The sensor continuously detects a passing of the tine arms during an operation of the turning or raking rotor and transmits a measurement signal thereof. The control device receives the measurement signal and infers an operating state of the at least one turning or raking rotor based thereon.

Abstract: A method for a route planning for a field processing. The method includes passing an agricultural machine through a primary area of a processing area while automatically determining position data thereof, at least partially automatically determining a primary boundary which surrounds the primary area based on the position data, determining a secondary outer boundary of a secondary area, the secondary outer boundary being arranged outside the primary area to meet the primary boundary at connection points, automatically determining a driving route for processing at least the secondary area, and automatically generating control data for controlling the agricultural machine during the field processing. A part of the primary boundary which lies between the two connection points forms an inner boundary between the primary area and the secondary area. The inner boundary, together with the secondary outer boundary, completely surrounds the secondary area. The control data represents a determined driving route.

Abstract: The transmission unit for a round baler includes a drive part having a drive shaft, a press roller driven part coupled to the drive part which to at least indirectly drives a pressing roller to act on a crop material, a cutting rotor driven part which at least indirectly drives a cutting rotor to convey the crop material towards a pressing chamber, and a coupling mechanism which selectively couples and decouples the drive part and the cutting rotor driven part. The coupling mechanism has a coupling gearwheel which is non-rotatably connected to the drive shaft and which is adjustable axially with respect thereto. The first coupling gearwheel is selectively drivingly coupled to the cutting rotor driven part in a coupling position and is decoupled therefrom in a release position, and is drivingly coupled to the press roller driven part both in the coupling and in the release position.

Abstract: A method for operating a coupled unit with a swather attached to a tractor, and a round baler attached to the swather. The method includes using the swather to pick up a crop and to deposit the picked-up crop in a deposit area to form a swath with a swath center, using the round baler to pick up the swath via a pick-up device and to further compress the picked-up swath into a crop bale, and performing an automatic pick-up adjustment via a device adjustment on the swather and/or the round bailer via an actuator-based device setting, at which automatic pick-up adjustment a relative picking up position taken at the swath center and at the pick-up device relative to one another with respect to a round baler transverse axis is adjusted so as to achieve a uniform build-up of the crop bale.

Abstract: A swather includes a frame, a chassis which supports the frame, at least one processing member which is connected at least indirectly to the frame, a front coupling device which is arranged at a front side of the frame with respect to a longitudinal axis of the swather, and a rear coupling device which is arranged at a rear side of the frame with respect to the longitudinal axis. The at least one processing member grips a crop material. The front coupling device defines a front coupling point for attaching the swather to a tractor. The rear coupling device defines a rear coupling point for attaching a baler to the swather.

Abstract: A conveying and collecting device for a crop press has a conveying and collecting unit switchable from a collecting mode into a lifting mode. A first cam track for rotating feed tines of a feed bar is switchable from a fixed state, in which it is stationary and the conveying and collecting unit is in collecting mode, into a moving state, in which it is driven by the conveying and collecting unit that is in lifting mode. A coupling device for operatively coupling the first cam track with the conveying and collecting unit is provided, and a switching device triggers or prevents coupling based on the filling level of the collecting chamber that is detected by a sensor unit. Triggering or preventing of the coupling process is mechanically independent of the detected filling level. A crop press is provided with such a conveying and collecting device.

Abstract: In a steering method for an agricultural machine, the agricultural machine is steered by track steering action independent of GNSS position data along an initial travel track in a working region until a headland adjoining the working region is reached at an exit point of the initial travel track. The agricultural machine is automatically steered by turn steering action, steering it based on an actual position determined based exclusively on GNSS position data, through the headland until an entry point of a target travel track in the working region is reached. The agricultural machine is steered by track steering action along the target travel track. The agricultural machine automatically detects a transition from a travel track of the working region into the headland and/or a transition from the headland into a travel track of the working region and switches accordingly between turn steering action and track steering action.

Abstract: A twine knotter for a bale press for forming two sequential knots for holding together a tying agent surrounding a crop bale includes a knotter frame and a knotter hook supported rotatably in the knotter frame and provided for knotting together ends of the tying agent. A holding arrangement has a twine holding disk rotatably supported at the knotter frame and conveying temporarily two tying agent strands of the tying agent. A knotter disk that is rotatingly driven is provided with a first drive element driving the knotter hook and a second drive element driving the twine holding disk. A stripper lever is provided to strip off knots from the knotter hook. A knife blade is provided to cut through tying agent strands. The twine holding disk upon rotation is guided along the knife blade so that the tying agent strands are cut through upon passing the knife blade.

Abstract: A knotter hook for a twine knotter has a stationary clamping wing and a pivotable clamping wing, Stationary clamping wing and pivotable clamping wing have an extension component in a same spatial direction. The pivotable clamping wing has a projection projecting toward the stationary clamping wing. The pivotable clamping wing is pivotable reversibly from a closed state into an open state. A free end of the pivotable clamping wing in the open state is spaced apart farther from the stationary clamping wing than in the closed state. The pivotable clamping wing is laterally displaced relative to the stationary clamping wing at least in sections so that the pivotable clamping wing is arranged adjacent to the stationary clamping wing and below the pivotable clamping wing a free space is formed. The free space extends in the closed state opposite to the spatial direction beyond the projection.

Abstract: A mowing machine has a cutterbar oriented transverse to a travel and working direction of the mowing machine and provided with first and second ends spaced apart from each other in longitudinal direction. First cutting members are rotatably mounted on a top side of the cutterbar and rotatably driven about a vertical axis by a drive assembly within the cutterbar. A joint and drive assembly is connected to the first end of the cutterbar. A lateral cutterbar section is connected to the joint and drive assembly and has a second cutting member driven by the joint and drive assembly. The joint and drive assembly has first and second holding elements mounted relative to each other such that pivoting of the lateral cutterbar section in a cutterbar plane of the cutterbar is enabled. The first and second holding elements are arranged in planes positioned at a minimal spacing above each other.

Abstract: A baler for agricultural crop has a pressing channel and a needle rocker pivotably arranged at the pressing channel about a rocker pivot axis arranged in a plane that is orthogonal to the longitudinal center axis of the pressing channel. A drive arrangement connected to the needle rocker pivots the needle rocker relative to the pressing channel. The needle rocker has tying needles that are moved through the pressing channel when the needle rocker is pivoted. The drive arrangement has a drive element, rotatably supported about a drive axis of rotation; a coupling device pivotably supported about a coupling pivot axis positioned stationarily relative to the pressing channel; and a drive lever with a first end eccentrically connected to the drive element and a second end connected to the coupling device. The coupling device is connected to the needle rocker spaced from the rocker pivot axis of the needle rocker.

Abstract: A cutting device for agricultural harvesters has a conveying channel and pivotably supported cutting knives arranged in a row on a frame. The cutting knives project in the cutting position into the conveying channel. A conveying member with conveying tines, rotatingly driven about a horizontal axis, interacts with the cutting knives for comminuting crop. Individual adjusting devices, each associated with one cutting knife, yieldingly support the cutting knives in the cutting position. A knife switching device is provided to move the cutting knives from the inoperative position into the cutting position. With a preselecting device a desired group of cutting knives can be selected that is pivoted into the cutting position upon activation of the knife switching device. The preselecting device is activatable with reduced force expenditure by eliminating resistances, caused by adjusting and connecting devices of the knife switching device, when preselecting the desired group of cutting knives.

Abstract: A pull-type crop engaging machine such as a rotary mower comprises a frame mounted on transversely spaced field ground wheels for movement with a hitch arm extending to a tractor and a transport assembly attached behind the frame for moving downwardly to a transport position so that in the transport position the hitch arm extends from one end of the frame generally in the transverse direction for towing the machine in the transverse direction. The transport includes a transport ground wheel which acts to raise the frame to pass underneath the crop engaging system to support the machine on the wheel, on a second wheel behind the frame and on the hitch. The movement of the hitch and the wheel is connected and started at a position of the hitch so that the machine remains balanced. A shield behind the frame includes a portion which moves with the transport wheel.

Abstract: An agricultural harvester is provided with a pivotable discharge elbow that conveys picked-up and processed crop into a transport container of a transport vehicle. An electro-optical device is correlated with the discharge elbow. An electronic evaluation and control processing unit is connected to the electro-optical device and processes signals received from the electro-optical device to effect an automatic targeted control of the crop stream into the transport container based on the processed signals. The electro-optical device is a 3D laser scanner provided with a 2D laser scanner and a pivot unit that pivots the 2D laser scanner about an approximately horizontal axis.

Abstract: A pull-type rotary mower comprises a frame with a transverse main beam mounted on transversely spaced field ground wheels for movement with a central hitch arm extending to a tractor and a transport assembly attached to the main beam the frame for moving downwardly to a transport position so that in the transport position the hitch arm extends from one end of the frame generally in the transverse direction for towing the machine in the transverse direction. The transport includes front and rear transport ground wheel which act to support the machine on the wheels. A shield assembly, which in the field position extends rearwardly behind the frame to engage the crop emerging from a conditioner within a center discharge opening, includes at least a portion which is moved to a retracted position at the frame to allow the rear transport wheel to move to the transport position.

Abstract: A pull-type crop engaging machine such as a rotary mower comprises a frame mounted on transversely spaced field ground wheels for movement with a hitch arm extending to a tractor and a transport assembly attached behind the frame for moving downwardly to a transport position so that in the transport position the hitch arm extends from one end of the frame generally in the transverse direction for towing the machine in the transverse direction. The transport includes a transport ground wheel which acts to raise the frame to pass underneath the crop engaging system to support the machine on the wheel, on a second wheel behind the frame and on the hitch. The movement of the hitch and the wheel is connected and started at a position of the hitch so that the machine remains balanced. A shield behind the frame includes a portion which moves with the transport wheel.