Donavon G Koehn

US Patent:

20060251501, Nov 9, 2006

Filed:

May 9, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/125717

Inventors:

Christopher Koehn - New Plymouth ID, US
Donavon Koehn - New Plymouth ID, US

International Classification:

B60P 1/00

US Classification:

414501000

Abstract:

A simple agricultural big bale loader, retriever, and transporter provides an efficient tool that should save time and labor costs over other existing loaders. The invention permits a novel lifting, rotating, and depositing of a big bale from the ground in the field onto and across an elevating and flipping receiving table, consolidating of a plurality of the lifted bales into two-high or three-high layers of bales on a stack carriage bed, transporting of the bales to a storage location, tilting of the carriage bed downward at the rear and upward at the front approximately 90 degrees, and depositing of the stack at the storage location.