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OwnerKevin Jacob Goering, Craig Alan Puetz +2inventors
InventorsKevin Jacob Goering, Craig Alan Puetz, Charles Ostermeier, Daniel John Johannsen
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A low cost cotton harvester (10) utilizing a tractor chassis (12) operated in the reverse direction includes a row unit is located forwardly of the drive wheels (20), and a single operator station (36) is situated above the drive wheels (20). A basket (60) is mounted above the engine (22) and the steerable wheels (18). The transmission (26) on the chassis (12) includes a mechanical front wheel drive (MFWD) output (30) located between the drive wheels (20) and the steerable rear wheels (18) which is connected to the row unit drive (50) to synchronize row unit drive speed with tractor drive wheel speed. The harvester fan (62) is connected to the existing power take off (PTO) shaft (32) on the tractor chassis (12) for operation independently of the row unit drive (50). Drop wheel axle structure (90) for the wheels may be used to provide crop clearance and to facilitate use of the chassis as a sprayer when the row unit (46) is removed. Sprayer pump structure (82) is driven by the PTO (32) when the chassis (12) is converted for spraying.
An agricultural implement including a tractor chassis having a fore-and-aft extending frame with an engine, drive wheels having drive wheel axles supporting a first end of the frame and steerable wheels supporting a second end of the frame, drive transmission structure connected to the engine and to the drive wheels and having a mechanical front wheel drive (MFWD) output, wherein the speed of the MFWD output is synchronized with the speed of the drive wheels, a row unit extending from the first end of the frame, a crop receptacle supported by the frame, a crop conveyor supported on the frame, and a crop conveying duct extending from the row unit to the receptacle, the improvement comprising:
An agricultural harvesting implement including a tractor chassis having a fore-and-aft extending frame with an engine, drive wheels having drive wheel axles supporting a first end of the frame and steerable wheels supporting a second end of the frame, drive transmission structure connected to the engine and to the drive wheels and having a mechanical front wheel drive (MFWD) output, a power take off (PTO) shaft driven by the engine independently of the MFWD output, wherein the speed of the MFWD output is synchronized with the speed of the drive wheels, a cotton row harvesting unit extending from the first end of the frame and including rotating spindles drums with spindles projecting into a row of cotton plants, a crop basket supported by the frame, a crop conveying fan supported by the frame, and a crop conveying duct extending from the row unit to the basket, the improvement comprising:
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