Bale handling machine

摘要

A mobile bale handling machine picks up successive bales in the field and directs the same rearwardly into a receiver in which a stacked load of the bales is formed from the bottom up by virtue of a pusher in the receiver which raises successively formed tiers of the bales to holding structure located above the tier-forming level of the receiver. Upon completing the formation of the stacked load, the receiver may be tilted about a horizontal axis to swing the tiers of the load into an upright disposition, whereupon the same pusher used to build the load may be employed to displace the load of bales through the open top of the receiver as a stack. Upstanding load-retaining forks of the receiver may be inclined as the receiver is tilted in order to give the receiver a canted appearance for overhead clearance. The stack may subsequently be retrieved by virtue of the ability of the retaining forks to operate independently of one another for maneuvering under and over the stack and for clamping the same within the receiver for subsequent tilting to a transport position.