Claims
- 1. In a mower conditioner having a mobile frame; a crop harvesting header suspended from said frame for movement relative thereto and including a cutterbar forwardly positioned from said header to sever standing crop material from the ground; said header having laterally opposing side sheets and a shroud encircling said cutterbar and being connected to said side sheets, the improvement comprising:a rolling crop guide formed of rotatable members detachably connectable to said side sheets to separate and guide crop material toward said cutterbar for engagement therewith to sever said crop material.
- 2. The mower conditioner of claim 1 wherein said rotatable members are coulters rotatably supported on said header side sheets.
- 3. The mower conditioner of claim 2 wherein said coulters are supported on said side sheets by bearings to allow said coulters to rotate freely.
- 4. The mower conditioner of claim 3 wherein said coulters are mounted in an overlapping configuration to present a curved forward edge to the crop material to be divided thereby.
- 5. In a hay harvesting machine having a mobile base unit and a crop harvesting header supported on said base unit for severing crop material from the ground, said header having laterally opposed side sheets extending in a generally fore-and-aft position, the improvement comprising:a rolling crop divider having at least two rotatable members rotatably supported on at least one of said header side sheets.
- 6. The hay harvesting machine of claim 5 wherein said rotatable members are coulters oriented generally parallel to said at least one side sheet.
- 7. The hay harvesting machine of claim 6 wherein said coulters are supported by bearings connected to said at least one side sheet by detachable fasteners.
- 8. The hay harvesting machine of claim 7 wherein the coulters are mounted in an overlapping configuration.
- 9. The hay harvesting machine of claim 7 wherein each of the opposing side sheets of said header have at least two coulters mounted thereon.
- 10. In a hay harvesting machine having a mobile base unit and a crop harvesting header supported on said base unit, said header having a disc cutterbar transversely extending between laterally opposed side sheets for severing crop material from the ground, the improvement comprising:two coulters rotatably supported on each of said header side sheets in an overlapping orientation with respect to one another to form a rolling crop divider having a curved forward edge to separate standing crop material and guide crop material into said disc cutterbar to be severed thereby.
- 11. The hay harvesting machine of claim 10 wherein each said coulter is supported from the corresponding side sheet by a bearing detachably connected to said corresponding side sheet by a detachable fastener.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/072,240, filed May 4, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,970,689, which is a division of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/670,060, filed Jun. 25, 1996, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,778,647, claiming priority on U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/000,817, filed Jun. 26, 1995.
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