Patent ID: 6875103

Claim:
An apparatus for installing and removing a harvesting combine rotor comprising: a harvesting combine including a frame portion having a front end, the frame portion supporting a threshing rotor contained in a body located rearwardly of the front end, a cab supported at a first position on the front end forwardly of the body containing the rotor and directly forwardly of front end of the rotor, and a linkage assembly located and operatively connected to the frame portion and to the cab beneath the cab so as to be movable beneath the cab for raising the cab relative to the frame portion from the first position to a second position above the front end of the rotor, the linkage assembly, the cab and the frame portion defining a rotor spacing beneath the cab when in the second position, the rotor spacing allowing installation and removal of the rotor in the body of the harvesting combine therethrough, the harvesting combine being fully operational with the cab in both the first position and the second position.