Patent ID: 8522677

Claim:
A square baler comprising: a baling chamber within which crop is compressed into a bales; and a bale chute for lowering completed bales onto the ground, wherein the bale chute has a leading end connected to the rear end of the baler for pivoting movement between a raised transport position and a lowered operating position about an axis transverse to a direction of travel of the baler, a suspension spanning between a point on the baler above the transverse pivoting axis of the bale chute and a point on the bale chute distant from the transverse pivoting axis supporting the bale chute in substantially the same plane as a floor of the baling chamber when in the lowered operating position, and a lever mechanism connecting an end of the suspension to the baler, the lever mechanism positioned above the transverse pivoting axis of the bale chute, and the lever mechanism movable between a first position in which the bale chute is supported in the lowered operating position and a second position in which the bale chute is inclined from the lowered operating position to cause a bale resting on any part of the bale chute to slide under an action of gravity along the bale chute and to fall onto the ground from the trailing end of the bale chute.