Patent ID: 7409814

Claim:
A method of operating a round baler to receive incoming crop material at a crop material entry throat as the round baler is moved along a ground, and to form the crop material into a cylindrical bale, wherein a bale forming process terminates after a movement of the baler along the ground is stopped, causing the crop material flow into the crop material entry throat to stop, the method comprising: (a) sensing a condition where the round baler has formed the cylindrical bale of a predetermined value of a physical characteristic of the bale; (b) initiating a wrap cycle where a wrap feed mechanism moves to begin feeding wrap material into the round baler to wrap the cylindrical bale; (c) initiating a delay of a predetermined period of time; and (d) initiating a stop signal to signal an operator to stop feeding crop material into the round baler, where the stop signal is initiated after a termination of the predetermined period of time.