Patent ID: 8905343

Claim:
A brush cutting and bale forming apparatus comprising: a vehicle having front and rear ends; a brush cutter carried at the front end of the vehicle, the brush cutter having a housing and a brush cutting head mounted for rotation within the housing, the brush cutting head having a support body and a plurality of cutting teeth mounted thereon, the cutting teeth being capable of reducing brush to wood chips and cutting debris when the brush cutting head is actuated, the brush cutting head being operable to take up at least some of the wood chips and cutting debris into the brush cutter housing while the cutting teeth are reducing brush to wood chips and cutting debris; a bale forming apparatus coupled for towage to the rear end of the vehicle, the bale forming apparatus being operable to form bales of wood chips; and a plurality of conveyor assemblies carried on the brush cutting and bale forming apparatus for transporting the wood chips taken up by the brush cutting head to the bale forming apparatus; the housing having an interior space defined therein; and a portion of the housing defining a well for receiving the brush cutting head; the well having first and second ends and being in communication with the interior space of the housing to permit the travel of wood chi from the well into the interior space of the housing; the plurality of conveyor assemblies includes a first conveyor assembly disposed within the interior space of the housing above the brush cutting head and forwardly of the rearmost extremity of the brush cutting head; the first conveyor assembly extending generally parallel to the well assembly and being operable to transport wood chips from the first end of the well toward the second end thereof.