End of round bale twine guide

In a round baler having a pair of laterally spaced apart, upright sidewalls and apparatus for wrapping a bale with twine after the bale has been formed within the baling chamber, the improvement comprising:

• a twine dispenser moveable generally between the sidewalls during a wrapping cycle for dispensing at least one strand of twine around the bale,
• said dispenser resting in a home position between successive wrapping cycles;
• a twine cutter including a blade shiftable into and out of a cutting position for severing the twine at the end of each wrapping cycle;
• a retractable twine guide for spacing twine wrapped around the bale a certain distance inwardly from one of the sidewalls,
• said twine guide being shiftable into and out of an operating position in which the guide is disposed to engage and maintain the twine said distance from said one sidewall;
• a power mechanism for shifting the blade of the twine cutter and the twine guide;
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• structure operably coupling the blade of the twine cutter and the twine guide to the power mechanism such that the power mechanism simultaneously shifts the blade of the twine cutter out of the cutting position and the twine guide into the operating position during the wrapping cycle, and simultaneously shifts the blade of the twine cutter into the cutting position and the twine guide out of the operating position at the end of each wrapping cycle.