Patent ID: 8555606
Filing Date: 2013-10-15
Classification: A01B,A01D

Abstract:
1. An agricultural machine comprising: an arm disposed on a support, a fastening device attached to the arm configured for fastening to a pulling vehicle in order to move the agricultural machine in a customary direction of travel, a frame, an implement fastened to the frame, an elongate drawbar having a first end that is hingeably fastened to the fastening device and a second end that is hingeably fastened to the frame, and an actuator fastened to the frame and to the drawbar, in order to move the frame between at least a transport position in which the frame is located at least partly behind the fastening device in the customary direction of travel and an operative position in which the frame is located laterally of the fastening device in the customary direction of travel, a telescopic drive shaft having a first shaft end and a second shaft end, wherein the first shaft end is hingeably fastened to the fastening device and the second shaft end is hingeably fastened to a coupling of the implement, the telescopic drive shaft comprising: a steering device configured to direct the first shaft part of the telescopic drive shaft substantially to the second shaft end of the telescopic drive shaft; wherein the steering device comprises a steering rod which is hingeably fastened with a first steering rod end to the support of the first shaft part, and wherein the steering rod is hingeably fastened with a second steering rod end to the frame.