TWO ROW CUTTER WINDROWER HARVESTING MACHINE

摘要

A sugar cane harvesting machine is disclosed including a tracked vehicle on which two identical row harvesting means are provided for two adjacent rows with the harvesting means including a lower cane chopper for chopping the cane of the row at ground level, a cane lifting and guiding scroll means for lifting fallen cane toward a vertical position and cutting tangles or mats incapable of vertical orientation to prevent uprooting of such cane forwardly of the lower cutting means, upper guide chains for guiding the tops of the vertically oriented cane to a cane top cutter where the tops are cut and guided to fall beneath the tracks of the vehicle; the lower cane cutting means includes kicker rolls operative to deflect the severed cane into an inverted U-shaped orienting chute in which the cane is oriented parallel to the rows with the cane from both rows being formed into a single windrow between the two rows being harvested.