Whole crop harvester with addition equipment

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a whole crop harvester capable of adding an additive liquid to whole crop stems and culms for a period from harvest of crops for whole crops to packing and forming thereof. SOLUTION: This whole crop harvester is equipped with a reaping and carrying device A for reaping crops for whole crop of field at plant foots and carrying the whole crop stems and culms R upwardly to the back of oblique left of the machine body, a device B for carrying the whole crop stems and culms R backwardly to oblique right of the machine body continuously to carrying by the reaping and carrying device A and making the stems and culms R approach the center and a stems and culms cutter C having a pair of disk cutter shafts 31 and 32 arranged in rows backwards and forwards and cutting the whole crop stems and culms R continuously dropped from the final end of the above device B in a prescribed length. In the whole crop harvester, an addition device F for spraying an additive liquid such as lactic acid bacterium or enzyme to the whole crop stems and culms R immediately before being dropped from final end of the device B and cut by the cutter C is provided.