Provided is a lawn maintenance device with blower assisted bagging. The device has a deck having a blade set adapted to be operated at some blade speed to trim vegetation to generate trimmings; said deck further having a deck output adapted to eject a trimming mixture formed of the trimmings and air. The device has a discharge chute defining a chute input and a chute output, the chute output offset from the chute input by a chute elongation path; the chute input operatively engaged to the deck output to receive the trimming mixture; the discharge chute adapted to convey trimming mixture to the chute output. The device has an electric blower having a blower intake and a blower ejection; the blower adapted to operate at some blower speed to output an energized fluid stream into the discharge chute at a location between the chute input and the chute output.

A pick-up attachment for a harvesting machine preferably for a field chopper, particularly preferably for a self-propelled field chopper, includes a pick-up rotor having pick-up tools for picking crop up from the ground, at least one guide element that rests on the ground, which element takes on the guidance of the pick-up rotor and guides it relative to the ground, and a machine frame that is connected to the pick-up rotor. The pick-up rotor is composed of multiple segments connected to one another at least partially in an articulated manner, for adaptation to the contours of the ground. At least one guidance system movably connects the pick-up rotor, in particular a segment of the pick-up rotor, to the machine frame of the pick-up attachment.

This disclosure provides a delivery spout for a forage harvester in which a guide plate is provided in the vicinity of an entrance end of the delivery spout, and opposite to a region of the delivery spout at which material is received from a processing system of the forage harvester. The guide plate is movable to adjust an effective flow cross sectional area in the vicinity of the entrance end, thereby to adjust a flow speed from the delivery end.

A system for filling a feed mixer, the system comprising: a feed intake device configured to take in a feedstock from a stockpile; a feed processing system for processing the feedstock and directing the processed feedstock into a container of the feed mixer; and a controller associated with the feed processing system, the controller configured to control processing of the feedstock by the feed processing system based on a prescribed recipe.

In a harvester/header combination according to the invention, the header is a crop pick-up header (2) coupled to a forage harvester (1). The header comprises a frame (10) and a rotatable reel (13) configured to collect crops from the ground, a rotatable auger (20) provided with two oppositely wound helicoidal flights (26), and one or more windguard rolls (15). The auger is rotatable with respect to a pair of support arms (21) which are themselves pivotable relative to the frame, so that the pivoting movement of the arms results in lowering or raising the auger (20). According to the invention, the header comprises at least one set of actuators (18, 19) capable of actively raising the auger and the windguard roll(s) and the harvester/header combination comprises a control unit (46) configured to execute a sequence of steps for removing a foreign object from the header, after detection of the object and stoppage of the harvester's feed rolls (51). The removal sequence includes raising the auger while rotating the auger in the reverse direction, followed by lowering the auger while maintaining said reverse rotation.

A method and system for identifying lengths of a particle in a flow of harvested material comprising particles in an agricultural harvester is disclosed. The agricultural harvester has at least one work assembly for harvesting a crop or for processing harvested material of the crop and can be adjusted using machine parameters. The harvested material is transported as a flow of harvested material through the agricultural harvester while the agricultural harvester is operating. The agricultural harvester has a camera that takes images of the flow of harvested material, with a computing unit of the agricultural harvester analyzing the images of the flow of harvested material in an analytical routine thereby finding particle lengths of particles of the flow of harvested material that are an excess length. The analytical routine is based on a machine learning method trained to find particles with the excess length, with the computing unit using the analytical routine to ascertain an amount of particles with the excess length.

An extractor for an agricultural harvester includes an extractor housing extending from an extractor inlet to an extractor outlet. The extractor housing is configured to receive debris at the extractor inlet and direct the debris outwardly from the harvester at the extractor outlet. The extractor also includes an extractor blade assembly positioned within the extractor housing, with the assembly comprising a plurality of extractor blades. Each extractor blade includes a cutting portion and a suction portion. When the extractor blades are rotated in a rotational direction within the extractor housing, the suction portion of each extractor blade is configured to generate a suction force within the extractor housing for directing the debris from the extractor inlet to the extractor outlet; and the cutting portion of each extractor blade is configured to cut at least a portion of the debris being directed from the extractor inlet to the extractor outlet.

A whole-stalk or sectioning type combined sugarcane harvester, including: a frame, a sugarcane root grinding cutter (48), a plurality of rollers (59) for scraping sugarcane leaves, peeling sugarcane peels and conveying sugarcane stalks by using circular plates arranged at intervals, sugarcane pressing cover plates (82), sugarcane leaf and peel blocking barriers (75), a sugarcane stalk guide plate (78), rollover safety devices, anti-rollover regulators, and a whole-stalk sugarcane bundling and 180-degree left and right steering conveyor, wherein the sugarcane root grinding cutter (48) is mounted at a front end of the frame in a traveling direction; two rear sides of the frame are each provided with one rollover safety device, and the top of the frame is provided with the anti-rollover regulators; the rollers (59) are mounted on the frame; the sugarcane pressing cover plates (82) are mounted on the top surfaces of circular plates of the rollers (59), and the sugarcane leaf and peel blocking barriers (75) and the sugarcane stalk guide plate (78) are mounted behind the rollers (59); and the whole-stalk sugarcane bundling and 180-degree left and right steering conveyor is mounted at a rear end of the frame in the traveling direction.