Patent ID: 7252190
Filing Date: 2007-08-07
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
1. In a bale wagon for big bales, the bale wagon having a loader for picking bales up from a field, a bale manipulator for selectively rotating a bale picked up by the loader and depositing it in selective locations on a load rack, the improvement comprising: the load rack has a forward end and an opposing rear end with a longitudinal axis between the two being generally parallel to the direction of travel of the bale wagon, the load rack comprising: a control device connected to each power source and adapted to selectively and generally simultaneously initiate the first activation of all power sources such that all channel members slide together the predetermined distance; and the control device further adapted to serially initiate the second activation of individual channel members to slide it to its initial position, whereby the bale pickup may grasp and pick up a single bale from the ground, the bale may be manipulated to a desired orientation and deposited on the load rack, and moved along the load rack by the moving the channel members.