The invention involves an agricultural machine with a drive train to be
coupled onto the power take-off shaft of a tractor, with a transmission
integrated into the drive train. In these types of agricultural machines
it is frequently necessary, after starting at a high torque, to select a
lower transmission ratio, so that the agricultural machine can be driven
at an optimal speed by an engine to which sufficient power is then still
available for the propulsion for the tractor. In order to make this
possible, it is proposed, in an agricultural machine of this type, to
construct the transmission as a continuously variable conical-disk belt
or chain transmission which is preferably fully hydraulic, is coupled
with a hydraulic clutch, and has idle-shifting in the starting
transmission ratio.