Patent ID: 7047719

Claim:
A process of pre-compressing crop within, and delivering pre-compressed crop from, a supply channel to an inlet of a baling chamber of a large rectangular baler, comprising the steps of: a. positioning a stuffer fork at a first location in said supply channel just downstream from said inlet; b. operating a packer fork for introducing crop into the supply channel; c. causing said stuffer fork to be removed from said first location in said supply channel and inserted into said supply channel at a second location remote from said first location when one of the following conditions have occurred: i. a pre-selected number of packer fork cycles has occurred, or ii. a pre-selected time has elapsed since last stuffing action, or iii. crop in said supply channel has been compressed to a pre-selected density; and d. subsequent to an occurrence of said one of said conditions set forth in part c, moving said stuffer fork through said supply channel back to said first position.