A mower-conditioner assembly of a self-propelled windrower includes a frame, a cutting mechanism coupled to the frame for cutting crop, a conditioner rotatably coupled to the frame at a location rearward of the cutting mechanism, and a fluffer assembly rotatably coupled to the frame at a location rearward of the conditioner. The fluffer assembly includes at least an elongated roll and a crop moving element. The conditioner crimps the crop after it is cut, and the fluffer assembly fluffs or moves the crop during operation.

A pickup unit for an agricultural harvesting machine includes a frame; a pickup roll carried by the frame; and a feed assist roll carried by the frame and positioned adjacent to the pickup roll. The feed assist roll has a plurality of radially outwardly extending cleats spaced apart around a periphery thereof, and a plurality of extension plates. Each extension plate is removably attached to and extends a corresponding cleat.

A windguard is provided that may be used with an agricultural harvester, such as around baler, waste baler, combine, sugarcane harvester or cotton harvester. More particularly, the windguard utilizes at least a first and a second pivot tab, each comprising a cam that is adapted for alignment into a slot along a first and second side arms of the windguard and that allows a upward or downward movement of the pivot tabs in the slot. The sliding motion of the cam in the slot allows the windguard to automatically adjust during operation without manual adjustment or pre-adjustment prior to operation.

A device for harvesting long agricultural products, such as grass, straw, pulses, biomass products and the like, includes a frame having a main axis of extension, a plurality of agricultural product harvesting elements, each in turn equipped with at least one long harvesting prong, a movement system for moving each of the harvesting elements along a closed trajectory surrounding the main axis of extension, and a plurality of bands fixed to the frame, positioned one after another and spaced out along the main axis of extension. The device also includes a conveyor unit including an elongate body extending along its own axis of rotation and provided with at least one peripheral step forming an agricultural product feed shoulder extending, along an axis which is substantially radial relative to said axis of rotation, between an edge proximal to the axis of rotation and an edge distal from the axis of rotation.

Described is a cleaning unit for a device for harvesting long agricultural products, such as grass, straw, pulses, biomass products and the like, of the type that can be pulled by a pulling vehicle along an advancing axis and provided with pick-up means (102) for harvesting said products and with unloading means (106) located operatively downstream of the pick-up means (102), forming a supporting surface (B) for the agricultural products harvested and mobile transversally to said advancing axis along a predetermined axis of movement (A) for releasing the agricultural products to the sides of said pulling vehicle, wherein the cleaning unit comprises a wheel (2) comprising a peripheral annular surface (3) and rotatable about its own axis of rotation (C) and joining means (5) designed to connect said wheel (2) to said harvesting device (100) in such a way that said axis of rotation (C) is transversal to said axis of movement (A) and wherein said peripheral annular surface (3) is positioned at a predetermined height in such a way as to form, between the peripheral annular surface (3) and the supporting surface (B), an agricultural product feed section (4).

A windguard assembly for a baler that is configured to either limit or prevent crop material from being blown away by the wind during feeding of the crop material into a bale chamber of the baler. The windguard assembly includes a transversely mounted roller that is configured to rotate about an axis of rotation. The roller includes a plurality of crop engaging surfaces that are configured to transport the crop material toward the bale chamber. The windguard assembly also includes a tine assembly that is mounted with respect to the roller. The tine assembly includes a plurality of axially spaced-apart and longitudinally extending tines extending from a transversely mounted shaft. One of the tines of the plurality of tines is independently moveable with respect to another tine of the plurality of tines.

A windguard assembly for a baler that is configured to either limit or prevent crop material from being blown away by the wind during feeding of the crop material into a bale chamber of the baler. The windguard assembly includes a roller that is configured to rotate about an axis of rotation. The roller includes a plurality of crop engaging surfaces that are configured to transport the crop material toward the bale chamber. The windguard assembly also includes a tine assembly that is pivotably mounted with respect to the roller about the axis of rotation. The tine assembly includes a transversely-mounted shaft and a plurality of axially spaced-apart tines extending from the shaft.

A pickup assembly for an agricultural harvester includes a pickup assembly frame, a pickup unit configured to pick up crop, a feeding auger configured to receive the crop from the pickup unit and feed the crop towards a crop inlet of the harvester, and a wind guard assembly. The wind guard assembly includes a wind guard frame and a wind guard lifting mechanism coupled to the pickup assembly frame and the wind guard frame and including an actuator for lifting the wind guard frame from an operational configuration to a lifted configuration. The pickup assembly further includes a lock switch and an electronic circuit, operatively coupled to the lock switch and the actuator. The electronic circuit blocks control instructions from reaching the actuator when the lock switch is in an activated state and allows control instructions to reach the actuator when the lock switch is in a deactivated state.

A pick-up attachment for a harvesting machine, preferably for a field chopper, includes a pick-up rotor having pick-up tools for picking crop up from the ground. The pick-up rotor is connected to at least one guide element that rests on the ground and takes on the guidance of the pick-up rotor and guides it to the ground. The pick-up attachment can be tilted toward the ground and away from the ground by an angle that can be predetermined, about an axis of rotation transverse to the direction of travel, so as to set the raking height, in such a manner that the contact point of at least one guide element shifts during tilting, and thereby the position of at least one region of the pick-up rotor and thus the distance of at least one pick-up tool situated in this region or of the raking point from the ground changes.

A method for operating an agricultural machinery with an implement. The agricultural machinery includes at least one actuator for lifting and lowering the implement relative to a ground sur-face of a field, and at least one sensor being arranged at a predetermined distance ahead of and away from the implement in a harvesting direction of the agricultural machinery. The agricultural machinery further include a control unit configured to receive sensor signals from the at least one sensor and to operate the actuator. The method includes the steps of a) determining the ground profile ahead of the implement in the harvesting direction by the at least one sensor analyzing the determined ground profile by the control unit, and c) selectively causing the actuator to lift or lower the implement by the control unit according to the result of the analyzing step.