Cnh Industrial America LLC

Cnh Industrial Belgium Nv

Jeroen Vermander

Didier Verhaeghe

Dries Liefooghe

Joachim Boydens

Thomas Debbaut

Wouter Boone

Johan O Vanpoucke

Bart De Smedt

Simon Beelaert

Neel Vanhecke

Francis De Kesel

A tractor has a controller and at least one sensor-for sensing at least one swath line of crop material corresponding to a quantity of crop material per unit length of a swath. The controller operates in dependence on at least one output of the at least one sensor to operate a steering mechanism of the tractor such that a baler towed by the tractor follows a said swath line in a manner aligning ingestion of crop material into the baler for baling. The at least one sensor is operable to sense a swath line that is laterally offset from the direction of forward movement of the tractor.

Tractor-baler combinations

A crop discharge speed control system for a harvesting vehicle having a crop accelerator and a spout that receives crop material and directs the crop material to a targeted destination. The crop accelerator imparts an increased velocity to the crop material. The control system includes a crop velocity sensor, a controller, and a variable speed drive. The sensor is coupled to the spout of the vehicle for detecting a velocity of the crop material in the spout. The sensor produces a velocity signal representative of the velocity of the crop material. The variable speed drive is drivingly coupled to the crop accelerator. The controller varies the speed of the crop accelerator by controlling the variable speed drive, as it controls the variable speed drive to maintain a selected velocity of the crop material dependent upon a modulation of the velocity signal.

Crop discharge speed control for a forage harvester

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Middelkerke, Belgium

Jeroen Vermander