Patent ID: 7000533

Claim:
In a large round baler supported on wheels carried at opposite ends of a horizontal, transverse axle fixed to a frame of the baler, and including a baling chamber having opposite side walls defined in part by a bale discharge gate movable between a lowered baling position and a raised bale discharge position defining an outlet through which a bale may fall to the ground, a longitudinally extending bale unloading arrangement mounted to the baler for pivoting vertically between a raised bale-receiving position and a lowered, bale-depositing position, with movement from said bale-receiving position to said bale-depositing position being against an upwardly directed biasing force, the improvement comprising: said bale unloading arrangement including a carrier attached to said large round baler so as to move vertically; and a bale take-up device including a trough-shaped bale-receiving member and being mounted to said carrier for being guided between a forward position, wherein said bale-receiving member is located adjacent a forward end of said carrier, and below, and facing said outlet of said baling chamber when said discharge gate is in said raised bale discharge position, and a rearward position located adjacent a rear end of said carrier and facing away from said outlet when said bale unloading arrangement is in said bale-depositing position.