Patent ID: 7654069

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a baler having a main frame with a front and a rear, a left side panel operatively attached to the main frame and a right side panel operatively attached to the main frame, a baling chamber having a baling chamber inlet; a rotary crop pickup device operatively pivotally attached to the main frame along a first pivotal axis (A 1 ), the rotary crop pickup device having spaced apart pickup tines that rotate in one direction about a rotational axis (A 7 ) for picking up crop from the ground and moving the crop to the inlet of the baling chamber, said rotary crop pickup device having a raised transport position and a lowered working position and being moveable between the raised transport position and the lowered working position; a left side mostly horizontally disposed slot which is fixed with respect to the main frame; a right side mostly horizontally disposed slot which is fixed with respect to the main frame; a slider frame adapted to mount at least one accessory thereon for assisting the rotary crop pickup device, said slider frame having a left side bearing extending through the left side slot in the left side panel, and a right side bearing extending through the right side slot in the right side panel for permitting the slider main frame to move between a forward position in the slots to a rearward position in the slots and to pivot about a second axis (A 2 ) which second axis (A 2 ) is always disposed in the left and right side slots, said second axis (A 2 ) being fixed with respect to the slider frame; a left side member pivotally attached to the slider frame about the second axis (A 2 ) and is operatively attached to the rotary crop pickup device along a third axis (A 3 ); and a right side member pivotally attached to the slider frame about the second axis (A 2 ) and is operatively attached to the rotary crop pickup device along a third axis (A 3 ) whereby when the rotary crop pickup device is in the raised transport position the left and right side bearings of the slider frame are in a forward position of the left and right side slots and when the rotary crop pickup device is in the lowered operative position the left and right side bearings of the slider frame are in a rearward position of the left and right side slots.