Ezra C. Lundahl, Inc.

J Gordon Wiser

Ezra C Lundahl

E Cordell Lundahl

Laurel H Jensen

Ernie Vandenwijengeart

A hay baler including a trailer frame with a hitch for attachment to a prime mover and support wheels. A crop pick-up unit moves cut crop into a material storage area, from where it is moved into a bale chamber and is compacted by a compression unit and tied with twine before being discharged to ground from the rear of the trailer frame.

Large bale hay baler

Apparatus and method for cutting and feeding foliage material from a stack, the apparatus comprising a wheeled vehicle, for example a wagon pulled by a tractor, capable of being displaced along the ground, a tiltable bed thereon disposed in a parallel position between ground engaging wheels and a powered conveyor so that a stack of foliage may be loaded onto the bed from a position on the ground (or unloaded from the bed back to the ground) and also may be successively advanced along the conveyor bed to provide an overhang beneath and forward of a rotating angularly disposed variable cutter which travels horizontally and then vertically downward in a zig-zag pattern to successively cut slices of foliage from the overhang of the stack. The sliced material is forced out by a shield of the cutter and falls under force of gravity substantially continuously as it is cut onto a transverse foliage conveyor at the front of the vehicle and is thereby deposited upon the ground as a livestock feed windrow while the vehicle is displaced or into feed bins or onto another vehicle for subsequent processing while said stack vehicle is stationary. The rotating cutter is part of a traveling unit mounted on a carriage which is selectively moved vertically on a frame mounted on the vehicle. The traveling unit selectively moves horizontally from side-to-side. A pressurized hydraulic system and electronic system, which may comprise part of the tractor or otherwise, selectively powers the moving parts of the apparatus.

Variable stack feeder with hydraulic control

Apparatus and method for cutting and feeding a metered or controlled amount of foliage material from the stack, the apparatus comprising an underlying wheeled framework, capable of being displaced along the ground by a tractor or the like, a tiltable bed thereon disposed in a parallel position between the wheels and a powered conveyor so that a stack of foliage may be loaded onto the bed from a position on the ground (or unloaded from the bed back to the ground) and also may be successively advanced a short distance along the conveyor bed until the desired amount of stack foliage overhangs a transverse conveyor. A vertically or horizontally reciprocal cutting arm with a rotating disc blade at its distal end is cantilevered from a horizontally reciprocal rotatable vertical mast which is disposed alongside and extends over the transverse conveyor at the leading end of said framework and is thereby able to travel horizontally and vertically in a zig-zag pattern either top to bottom or bottom to top or both to successively cut arcuate strips of foliage from the overhang of the stack. Sliced foliage rolled off of a deflector shield and falls under force of gravity substantially continuously as it is cut onto the transverse foliage conveyor at the front of the vehicle and is discharged from the feeder.

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

J Gordon Wiser