Abstract: A device for removing plant material from a plant bed. In one embodiment, the device includes a frame with an oscillating cutter attached thereto. The oscillating cutter is disposed such that a cutting portion thereof is beneath the surface of a plant bed when the device is in use. A conveyor is also attached to the frame, the nose of the conveyor being disposed beneath the surface of the plant bed. As the device moves along a plant bed, the oscillating cutter cuts plant material, which is scooped up by the nose of the conveyor and transported to a desired location.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 17, 2012
Publication date:
March 20, 2014
Inventors:
Matthew James Andros, Garett John Stapp, Thomas Klippenstein
Abstract: Agricultural mechanized system for pulling-off and chopping stubs of cotton plants and similar agricultures, especially of a agricultural mechanized system coupled to a tractor, to plow and pull off the stubs preferably from the cotton agricultures and similar cultures firmly buried, which comprises a set of plows (10) provided with a pair of cutting wheels (14) and a pair of adjustable plowing blades (16 and 16?) between a first position above the ground and a final position of penetration in the ground which is longer than the radicular portion depth of the referred stubs, a chopper set (12) with blades (96) which chop the referred stubs into a particulate material into smaller fragments forming a layer of inert organic matter with at least a stub pulling-off set (11) arranged between the referred plowing set (10) and chopper set (12) mounted upon a support frame (2) on wheels (7 and 8).
Abstract: An apparatus for uprooting and shredding cotton plants after harvest includes a below ground cutting blade having a forward cutting edge inclined rearwardly and to one side of the implement, which blade cooperates with an oppositely inclined above ground trash bar to uproot cotton plants and deposit them on the ground transversely of the direction of travel of the apparatus.