Patent ID: 8781692

Claim:
A control arrangement for controlling the transfer of agricultural crop from a harvesting machine to a transport vehicle comprising: a loading container; a discharging device of the harvesting machine; an actuator operably connected between a portion of the harvesting machine and the discharging device; a control unit for controlling the actuator to automatically deposit the crop during the harvesting mode successively at different points in the loading container, following a predetermined loading strategy, by the control unit influencing a position of a discharge end of the discharging device of the harvesting machine, wherein the loading strategy may be changed and a choice may be made between different loading strategies, wherein the loading strategy takes into account a maximum load or a potential weight distribution of the transport vehicle, wherein the maximum load or the potential weight distribution of the transport vehicle depends on at least one of properties of the transport vehicle, statutory requirements, or ground conditions of the terrain which is driven on, and wherein the control arrangement may be operated to extract the ground conditions from a card using a position determining device.