Method and apparatus for loading and disintegrating single round bales

摘要

A mover-disintegrator for large cylindrical bales of crop material is provided with a bale-supporting bed swingable toward and away from a bank of shredding rolls for forced, one-at-a-time feeding of bales into the rolls. A loading fork mounted on the rear of the machine is vertically swingable from a ground-engaging position to a vertical position adjacent the bed and is adapted to engage circumferentially supported, ground-lying bales for individually raising the bales from the ground to an end-supported position upon the bed. From its on-end position, a loaded bale is fed into the disintegrating rolls in a highly desirable end-first manner by swinging movement of the bed.