Abstract: A hay conditioner is provided with a crop deflecting baffle having an operative position for deflecting crops for deposit in a swath. Rearwardly converging deflector vanes are mounted on the baffle, preferably about halfway respectively between the transverse edges of the baffle and the center of the crop stream. Preferably, the angle of convergence of the vanes is less than that of the fixed side deflectors of the preferred windrowing apparatus.

Abstract: A crop pickup device is provided with a tine reel having axially spaced sets of outwardly projecting tines, and crop supporting strippers disposed about the reel between the sets of tines, the strippers having forward lower portions disposed at a uniform radius about an axis below the rotational axis of the tine reel, and a forward upper portion having a substantially larger radius of curvature than the lower forward portion and terminating in a straight trailing portion for attachment to the pickup frame, the projection of the tines beyond said strippers being greater at the upper forward portion than at the lower forward portion.

Abstract: In a row crop harvesting header of the type having a crop gathering passage and crop cutting and conveying apparatus associated therewith, the crop cutting apparatus comprising a pair of overlapping rotary disk cutters, a stripper plate is provided behind the cutting nip and has an arcuate stripping edge closely adjacent to and spaced from the periphery of the lower disk and having its forward portion underlapping the upper disk.