Abstract: An implement for cutting canes, foliage and the like of a row crop, the implement having a frame adapted to be mounted on a vehicle, such as a tractor having a tool bar movable to and from a lowered position, for movement with the vehicle along a path of travel substantially parallel to the row crop; a cutting head mounted on the frame for movement to and from an extended cutting position; a mechanism borne by the frame for moving the cutting head to and from the extended cutting position; and a control system operably interconnecting the tool bar and the mechanism for moving the cutting head to the extended cutting position when the tool bar of the tractor is moved to the lowered position.

Abstract: In a material handling apparatus for removing fruit from rolled penetrable trays wherein the apparatus has a conveyor assembly receiving the rolled trays at one end and discharging the fruit at the opposite end, a mechanism mounted on the apparatus above the conveyor assembly and having tines moving in an orbital path to penetrate the rolled trays and carry them upwardly from the conveyor assembly gravitationally to discharge the fruit onto the conveyor assembly, and a mechanism for removing the emptied trays from the tines, an improvement having the tine mechanism mounted for movement from the conveyor assembly upon the tines contacting an impenetrable object on the conveyor so as to protect the tines; and an air conducting assembly borne by the apparatus to prevent the escape of emptied trays from the apparatus at the discharge end of the conveyor.