BALER KINEMATIC FOR COTTON PICKER

A baler assembly for a cotton harvester. The baler assembly has a chassis, a front component pivotally coupled to the chassis about a front chassis axis, a gate component pivotally coupled directly to the front component about a component axis, a handler pivotally coupled to the chassis about a handler axis and configured to pivot between a raised orientation and a lowered orientation, and a cradle defined on the handler and configured to selectively receive a pin of the gate component. The baler assembly transitions from a work configuration to a transport configuration by positioning the pin in the cradle and transitioning the handler to the lowered orientation while the gate component pivots about the component axis relative to the front component.