Abstract: A device for grouping parallelepipedic bales of fodder produced by a bale press, comprising a chassis having a forward and rear end, adapted to be drawn by the bale press, supported on at least two wheels and provided with a drawbar on the forward end thereof, wherein the chassis includes a first, upper and a second, lower pair of retractable lateral slides, the first, upper pair of said slides being placed at a level substantially corresponding to the level of the output plane of the bale press, and the second, lower pair of said slides being placed below the first, upper pair of slides at a distance therefrom approximately corresponding to the thickness of a bale, so as to define an inner space in said chassis.

Abstract: The windrower, which may be of the mower or mower-conditioner type, is provided with a double windrowing attachment at the rear thereof which may be lowered into a double windrowing mode or raised into a non-operative position for single windrowing. Severed crops are converged centrally of the machine from opposite sides of the cutting path taken by the machine so as to be discharged onto the ground in a single, centrally disposed windrow when the attachment is in its raised position. Actuation of the hydraulic circuitry associated with the attachment to lower the same into its operating position during a next pass around the field causes a conveyor of the attachment to intercept the centrally and rearwardly discharged crop so as to instead divert and convey the same to a laterally outboard position in order that the windrow of that crop cutting pass will be laid adjacently alongside of the previously formed single windrow for the next preceding pass.

Abstract: A pair of generally flat, horizontally disposed mowing rotors at the front of the machine sever the standing crops as the machine is advanced and, by creation of an air stream as well as through a physical throwing force, the rotors propel the severed crops rearwardly through a centrally disposed passage to a conditioning zone adjacent the rear of the machine where such severed crops are treated by the conditioner to expedite curing of the crops when they are thereafter directed onto the ground in a swath or windrow.