Agricultural vehicle for picking up, cutting and transporting e.g. stem or leaf crops, has cutting blades connected to spring loaded folding arms

摘要

The blades (7) for the cutting device are connected by a folding arm (9) to a fixed point on the vehicle (1). The arm is kept in the unfolded (extended) position by the same spring (10) used to urge the blades into the cutting position. The cutting device includes a means for transporting the crops along a channel (5) and the blades can be moved into a cutting position in which they extend into this channel and a retracted position located outside this channel.