Abstract: A method for controlling the ground grip of a wheeled loader having a pair of front wheels, a bucket, and at least one boom, comprising measuring the relative position of said front wheels with respect to the ground, detecting the reaching of a critical threshold value by measuring the relative position of the front wheels with respect to the ground, comparing the measurement of the relative position of the front wheels to a critical threshold value, and, when the measurement of the relative position of the front wheels with respect to the ground reaches the critical threshold value, inhibiting a further tilting of the bucket and a further lowering of the at least one boom.

Abstract: An apparatus configured to make ski runs comprising a support structure; a first tiller; at least one tracksetting device; and a connection structure that couples the tracksetting device to the first tiller; the connection structure being configured to allow the free rotation about an axis, such as transverse to the advancing direction, of the tracksetting device with respect to the tiller.

Abstract: A roadway marker moving device is provided for mounting to a vehicle and includes a support structure for mounting the device to a vehicle. The support structure is capable of being pivoted angularly relative to a longitudinal direction of travel of the vehicle. An elongated beam structure is mounted to the support structure and an elastomeric strip is mounted to a front face of the elongated beam structure for engaging the roadway marker. The angular orientation of the elongated beam can be adjusted while the vehicle is being driven with the elongated beam engaged with a roadway marker so that the positioning of the roadway marker can be controlled.

Abstract: An implement is disclosed for smoothing grounds that include at least a compact base having a top surface and a lesser compact footing on top of the base. The implement includes a frame having a front portion, a central portion, a rear portion, and a width. Wheels are mounted for rotation directly to the frame, and tools are carried by the frame for engagement with the ground. The tools include a specially shaped cleaving blade connected to the rear portion of the frame by a tool support, which securely connects the cleaving blade at predetermined heights. The blade has a front shaving edge and a rear compressing edge. The blade extends straight across the width of the frame so as to maximize the drag displaced on the frame during use of the blade. Arrangement of the wheels directly on the frame provides optimal stabilization of the frame during operation of the blade.

Abstract: A device (10) for collecting debris from a ground surface (18). A flexible generally planar member (17) has openings (16) therethrough. When the device is laid on and forwardly moved over the ground surface (18) debris on the ground surface passes upwardly through the openings, over inclined pick-up portions (42) of the device and thence onto collection surfaces (25) of the device. The device has transversely extending openings (88) spaced in the lengthwise direction on inclined surfaces (68) of the pick-up portions (42) whereby under forward movement of the device (10) in use, debris is accumulated in the recesses (88). Debris accumulated in the recesses (88) tends to be retained therein during deceleration of the device (10).

Abstract: A device (10) for collecting debris from a ground surface (18). A flexible generally planar member (17) has openings (16) therethrough. When the device is laid on and forwardly moved over the ground surface (18) debris on the ground surface passes upwardly through the openings onto collection surfaces (25) of the device. The device has transversely extending barriers (67) positioned whereby, debris passing upwardly through the openings (16) passes upwardly over the barriers (67) and then downwardly to the following collection surface (25). The barriers (67) at least partially obstruct movement of collected debris on the collection surfaces (25) back into the openings (16) under deceleration of the device as it is forwardly moved over the ground surface.

Abstract: A turf leveling device includes a metering blade together with first and second horizontal and parallel main blades separated by first and second open distances. The blade are supported by a frame with spaced frame arms adapted to provide three point hitch attachment points. Skid plates mounted on left and right sides of the frame prevent the metering blade from scrapping or cutting elevated areas of the turf surface. The metering blade and the first and second main blades with deflectors effectively redistribute and level the gathered material. A vertically adjustable verticutting knife roller having keyed knife discs extending through slots in a grating insert is preferably disposed in the first open distance.

Abstract: An earthmoving scraping device has a bowl-shaped frame with walls and a frame floor that define an interior for transporting material and a walking beam system for the rear wheels thereof that includes a suspension arm pivotally connected between the back end of the frame and a beam, the beam having first and second axles on separate sides of the beam. Connected to the axles is a tire system that includes a cylindrical metal rim with an outer surface and a plurality of solid tire segments, each of the tire segments having at least one track that is connected to a mounting plate, the mounting plates being circumferentially positioned adjacent to the outer surface of the rim.

Abstract: A sand trap rake having a frame, a pair of rear wheels supporting the frame, a single front wheel supporting the frame, and a steering system operably interconnecting the steering wheel to the single front wheel. A grading device is coupled to the frame and is raised and lowered in response to a grading device actuation system. A steering limiting system is further coupled with the steering system. The steering limiting system is operable in a normal reaction mode and a slow reaction mode. A switch device is connected with the grading device actuation system such that the switch device outputs a control signal when the grading device is in the raised position. In response to the control signal, the steering limiting system consequently causes the steering system to operate in a slow reaction mode.

Abstract: An agricultural implement consisting primarily of a towed frame supported on retractable wheels, the frame having a plurality of independently adjustable spindles for setting height and angle of attack for various size rotatable discs. Each disc is staggered to reduce resistance and clogging. Each group of discs further includes descending diameter discs at each end with the angle of attack increasing with each decrease in diameter while spacing between the discs decreases as the diameters are reduced. The implement further including harrow teeth or picks located at strategic points adjacent the discs to ensure uniform soil disruption, the disc assembly being convertible from single gang to double gang assembly and may include conventional harrow teeth sets and or unique soil leveler attachments.

Abstract: A road scraper includes a frame having forwardly positioned blades extending rearwardly and laterally for directing loose material against a rear blade extending angularly in the opposite direction between rearwardly extending side frame members thereby causing loose material on the road to be redistributed across the road under the rear blade on the back side of the frame. A rearwardly positioned dam blade cooperates with the rear angular blade to cause loose material to be accumulated and then discharged through a passageway between the rear end of the dam blade and the angular blade.

Abstract: An apparatus for modifying the earth's surface by removing soil from the surface, moving the soil to a new location and filling low areas. It comprises a frame carried by at least two wheels, a tongue mounted to the frame for attachment to a tractor, a cutting blade mounted on the frame, and a bucket pivotally mounted to the frame adjacent the blade to receive the soil cut by the blade. The wheels are pivotally mounted to the frame for movement of the wheels about the back wall and floor of the bucket between a first position and a second position. When the wheels are in the second position, a portion of each of the wheels underlies a portion of the floor of the bucket bringing the wheels closer to the center of gravity of the apparatus and its load.

Abstract: A wheeled dirt scraper having a pair of stabilizer rails pivotally mounted onto each of the side wings of the box, the rails being provided with damping devices to reduce, absorb and eliminate shock effects. The rails have a relatively large surface contact area and extend substantially the length of the wings. The rails are mounted such that the lower surfaces can pivot below or even with the bottom edges of the wings, so that the rails can remain in contact with the ground even when the wings are suspended above the ground.

Abstract: A device (300) for collecting debris from a surface. The device has a generally planar matting material (15) the undersurface of which is formed with depending bristles (14). The device (300) has an opening (16) therethrough which when the device is moved over a ground surface (18) with the bristles (14) in contact therewith debris on the ground surface (18) pass through the opening (16). The forward and aft edges (361, 362) of the matting (15) are provided with transverse stiffening members (363). A plurality of wheels (365) at least partially support the stiffening members (361, 362).

Abstract: A land smoother and packer system for smoothing and packing irregularities in a ground surface. The inventive device includes a frame, a plurality of wheels, a right blade pivotally attached to the frame, a center blade attached to the frame, a left blade pivotally attached to the frame, and a plurality of rollers rotatably attached to the frame behind the blades. The frame has a center portion, a left wing and a right wing that fold upon the center portion for travel. A pair of hydraulic cylinders are attached to the right blade and the left blade for controlling the rotational position of the respective blades. The plurality of rollers are preferably comprised of a center roller, a right roller, a left roller, a right rear roller, and a left rear roller. In operation, the blades are lowered to the desired level for leveling the ground surface of dirt mounds. The rollers follow behind the blades thereby packing the ground surface and forcing any rocks into the ground surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a compactor apparatus for compacting granular material, such as granulated activated carbon, when it is laid in a slow sand filter, comprising a plough, a compacting device and a mechanism to provide swivelling of the apparatus in a substantially horizontal plane whereby to compact the material. In the preferred embodiments illustrated, the apparatus is removably mounted on an end of an extensible arm of a tracked vehicle such as a dumper, excavator or digger.

Abstract: A device for collecting debris from a surface. The device has a generally planar matting material the undersurface of which is formed with depending bristles. The device has an opening therethrough whereby when the device is moved over a ground surface with the bristles in contact therewith, debris on the ground surface is passed through the opening to rest on the matting material.

Abstract: A device for collecting debris from a surface. The device has a generally planar matting material the undersurface of which is formed with depending bristles. The device has an opening therethrough whereby when the device is moved over a ground surface with the bristles in contact therewith, debris on the ground surface is passed through the opening to rest on the matting material.

Abstract: A cultivator attachment is mounted on a skid steer tractor and includes a main frame, a vertical receptacle attached to the frame to receive and attach to the mounting plate member of the skid steer tractor and a plurality of cultivator discs carried on the frame for working ground underneath the frame and forwardly of the skid steer tractor unit. Two rows of disk extend across the frame generally transverse to the forward direction. One of the rows of discs includes teeth projecting outwardly from at least some of the discs. Each row includes two disc sections arranged such that an axis of rotation of the discs is inclined to the forward direction and converge to an apex centrally of the frame. The disc sections are adjustable from a first position in which the apexes of the rows are adjacent to a second position in which the apexes are spaced apart so as to reverse the direction of cut of the discs and allow movement of the frame in a reverse direction opposite to the forward direction.

Abstract: The invention comprises a scraper and drag attachment for a tractor. The attachment has a main frame with a hitch at it forward end for attachment to a tractor. A scraper is fixed to the main frame behind the hitch and a first pivotal frame is pivotally mounted to the main frame behind the scraper. A pair of wheel frames each having a wheel rotatably mounted thereon are individually pivotally mounted to the main frame behind the scraper and laterally adjacent one another.

Abstract: A dirt scraping implement is provided including an external box-type body frame, a scraping blade, a hinged floor, and an activator for the hinged floor wherein packed dirt may be scraped and transported by relatively small farm machinery.

Abstract: A mat for sweeping a surface is provided with an elongated slot therethrough which extends transverse to the intended direction of movement of the mat over a surface whereby debris on the surface will pass upwardly through the slot for collection on the upper surface of the mat. The slot may be perpendicular or angled relative to the direction of travel and the trailing edge of the slot may be provided with a chamfered surface to assist in guiding debris upwardly onto the upper surface of the mat. The mat may be either a one piece flat flexible mat or may be comprised of a plurality of mat elements each of which has a slot therethrough and which may be connected to other mat elements to make a larger mat.

Abstract: A landscape leveling and raking apparatus has a frame, a handle protruding upwardly from the frame, a rake pivotally coupled to the frame to protrude downwardly and rearwardly therefrom, a screed fixed to the frame forwardly of the rake, a plurality of tiller blades rotatably mounted along a forward, open end of the frame, a motor which rotatably drives the tiller blades, and a mechanism for raising or lowering the tiler ,blades relative to the frame. As the blades rotate, they till the soil and propel the apparatus forward. The frame is open along its front edge. This allows soil to accumulate within the frame as the apparatus moves forward. The soil gradually escapes from the frame by passing beneath a screed fixed along the lower rear edge of the frame. The screed levels the soil before it is raked by the tines of the rake.

Abstract: A harrowing device for harrowing a ground surface includes a haulable frame. A plurality of blade holders are secured to the frame, and extend downward from the frame. The blade holder has a cavity, a pair of holes, a pair of inclined interior face in the cavity. The inclined interior faces are arranged so as to become close to each other the further away from the holes. A plurality of blades are fitted to the blade holder, each blade having a shank inserted into the cavity and a blade portion for harrowing the ground. The shank has a pair of holes corresponding to the holes of the blade holder, and a protrusion for contacting the inclined interior faces. A pin is inserted into the holes of the blade holder and the shank to pivotably support the blade.

Abstract: For the control of weeds in turfgrass, herbicide is selectively applied to the weeds overgrowing the height of the turfgrass after mowing. An applicator pad carrying the herbicide is drawn across the turfgrass as the pad is held parallel to the underlying ground and at a preset height just above the height of the turfgrass. For this purpose the applicator pad is supported by a skid having flat portions resting on the ground as the skid slides over the turfgrass. The preferred form of the skid for unestablished terrain is a large flat plate having an upturned leading edge portion and supporting the applicator pad behind its trailing edge.

Abstract: An earth working apparatus features a horizontally-oriented rigid support frame across a forward end of which is disposed a generally vertical scraper blade. Mounted forwardly of the frame is a roller. A holding device projects rearwardly from the frame and is pivotally coupled to a steerable motive vehicle in a manner which permits vertical swinging of the frame. A ram is disposed vertically above the holder. The ram is pivotally coupled at one end to the support frame and at the other end to the vehicle so as to effect swinging of the frame. Also pivotally mounted on the vehicle to swing vertically is an elevator linkage. The holder is pivotally coupled to a swinging end of that linkage and the ram is pivotally coupled thereto. Also mounted laterally across the support frame and forwardly of the scraper blade is a drag blade.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a rigid frame having two rectangular openings therein that are covered with sections of expanded metal grating material. The frame has front and rear angled or sloping cutting edges that can cause some of the soil being leveled to be pushed onto the upper side of the grating sections, a tilting of the apparatus increasing the amount. The elevated soil can be sifted downwardly through the grating openings if of small enough size or retained on the sections if oversized. Whatever chunks or clods of soil too large to be sifted can be dumped onto the ground and pulverized by a back and forth movement of the apparatus over the large material with the apparatus appropriately tilted. Rocks and debris can be transported to a disposal location. Replaceable wear strips are employed. However, the edges of the grating sections are welded to the frame at an elevation above the wear strips to reduce the amount of wear on the underside of the sections.

Abstract: A minimum tillage implement attaches to the tool bar of a planter device to allow topping of the rows, tilling of the rows, planting and chemical application to be accomplished in a single pass over the rows of a field. The minimum tillage implement comprises a shaper for topping the rows of the field, and a reel for tilling the planting area of the row. Adjacent the top of the shaper is a substantially horizontal, forwardly-projecting lip portion which serves to prevent dirt from going over the top of the shaper. The reel follows the shaper and has a number of blades spaced substantially evenly about a shaft, and has tabs interposed between adjacent blades. The tabs allow the reel to roll as smoothly as if it had twice as many blades, without the clogging that might occur with a reel having so many blades.

Abstract: A furrow opening point 40 is described for attachment directly to the seed boot of a hoe type seed drill between the split packer wheels. The furrow opening point 40 has an elongated body 50 that extends from an upper fertilizer receiving portion 56 to a bottom edge 54 of the soil engaging portion 52. The soil engaging portion has an upper section 61 and a lower section 62 for forming a two-tier furrow. A liquid fertilizer passageway 90 extends downward through the elongated body to the bottom edge 54 for dispensing liquid fertilizer at the base of the furrow. A dry granular fertilizer passageway 96 extends downward through the elongated body to a bottom surface 84 for dispensing dry granular fertilizer down a vertical channel formed along the trailing face 80 to the base of the furrow. A leveling section 100 forward of the seed opening 30 levels and firms the soil in the upper portion of the two-tier furrow to form a good seed bed.

Abstract: This invention is directed to an improved method and apparatus for building ridges and borders on agricultural fields which are suitable for the containment of irrigation water in such fields. The apparatus comprises means to cultivate at least a pair of trenches, means to remove dirt from the cultivated trenches and deposit dirt removed from the trenches onto the ground between the trenches and means to compress and shape the deposited dirt into a ridge or border.

Abstract: A crawler tractor with a dozer blade and fitted with accessories to loosen the ground in the strafing pit area of an Air Force gunnery range and simultaneously remove from the ground rocks the size of a man's fist and larger and spent projectiles. The tractor is provided with an electromagnet positioned ahead of the dozer blade. Positioned to the rear of the tractor, and pivotally attached to its frame by drawbars, is a chisel bar with a plurality of chisel blades. Just ahead of the chisel bar is a rock rake having a spine from which extend a plurality of forwardly projecting tines. The rake is supported with its tines at such an angle that their tips barely scrape the surface of the earth. Ahead of the rock rake, there is a drag consisting of a section of railroad rail suspended from the drawbars of the chisel assembly at a height sufficient to just scrape the surface of the ground during operation of the tractor.

Abstract: A box blade assembly for attachment to earth moving vehicles has a rotatable semi-cylindrical closure blade. The box blade includes a pair of spaced parallel side walls, an open front, top, and bottom, and a rear wall having a depending scraper blade attached to the bottom edge thereof. A semi-cylindrical, transversely-extending, closure blade is rotatably mounted on the side walls of the box blade. A fluid-operated cylinder rotates the closure blade from an open position, with the bottom of the box blade open, to a closed position abutting the rear wall and scraper blade enclosing the bottom of the box blade. A vehicle pulls the box blade along the surface of the ground with the scraper blade scraping dirt and confining it within the side and rear walls. The closure blade when rotated to the closed position extends underneath the collected dirt so that it can be lifted with the box blade for transporting to another location.

Abstract: A weed cutting device having a double edged, rectangular, shaped blade that is attached to and in front of a toe boot that fits over a user's shoe.

Abstract: An agricultural apparatus and more specifically a cultivator intended to till the soil for the incorporation of chemical solutions and to prepare it for sowing. This cultivator has a double-wheel-mounted frame capable of being hitched to a tractor, at least one transverse row of tines at the front or drawing end and at least one additional transverse row of the tines at the rear. A single or double transverse cylindrical rolling harrow, spring-pressed downwardly and oscillating vertically, is provided behind the rear tines, the harrow having a churning action which breaks up the lumps left after the soil has been loosened by the tines. A further transverse rolling harrow is also provided between the front and rear rows of tines, generally at the center of the frame. This additional harrow is, like the rear one, pressed downwardly by springs and is also able to oscillate vertically.

Abstract: An apparatus for making ski tracks and/or levelling ski slopes is mounted in front of a driving vehicle so as to be freely vertically movable relative to the vehicle to adjust its position to varying snow heights encountered in treating the snow cover. Front and rear supports such as sleds or rollers are pivotally mounted on the frame and support the apparatus on the snow cover. A rotating cutting tool for treating the snow is mounted on an arm which is pivotally joined to the frame, to allow the cutting tool to swing upward and downward relative to the frame in response to varying snow heights. The cutting tool support arm may be resiliently mounted to bias the cutting tool in a downward direction to provide a flatter snow surface. At least one of the front and rear supports may be swingably mounted similarly to the cutting tool. The apparatus produces a flatter snow cover in areas of varying length of waves in the snow surface.

Abstract: A tracking or grading unit for ski-trails and paths, comprises a sliding arrangement having at least one sliding or rolling front and rear support and a frame upon which the supports are mounted. The unit includes a cutting device which is adjustable in height, the cutting device having at least one pivot-arm mounted upon the frame of the sliding arrangement and at least one cutting tool arranged at the lower end thereof.

Abstract: A method for preparing a field which has crop residue rows for subsequent row crop planting comprises cutting a plurality of furrows between crop residue rows and lifting and turning over the soil from the furrows into ridges, and simultaneously scraping over a plurality of crop residue rows and transferring the residue into the furrows which are being simultaneously cut, and wherein the former step forms the ridges on surfaces that are simultaneously being cleared by the latter step. The method is accomplished by tillage apparatus including a horizontal frame, a plurality of furrow cutting moldboards affixed to the frame and being curved to lift and turn over the soil cut from the furrows into ridges, and a plurality of trash boards affixed to the frame diagonally to the crop rows and in alternate relation to the moldboards and being curved to transfer the crop residue removed thereby into the furrows being simultaneously cut by the moldboards.

Abstract: An attachment for agricultural machines includes a frame having a leading and trailing portion, a first soil-treating unit located at the leading portion of the frame and a second soil-treating unit located at the trailing portion of the frame. Between the first unit and the second unit there is located on the frame wheels for supporting the frame when an agricultural machine provided with the attachment moves along a road. The wheels are displaceable relative to the frame between a first position in which the wheels engage the ground and a second position in which the wheels do not engage the ground. The frame is so coupled to a lifting device of the agricultural machine that, when the wheels are in the second position, the trailing portion of the frame is supported on the ground by the second soil-treating unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing ski tracks for a ski trail, comprising a sliding/planing body with a flat sliding surface which curves upwardly at the forward section of said body, and spaced-apart track-forming members depending downwardly from said sliding surface. The track-forming members each comprising a bottom surface and two parallel side surfaces whose forward portions converge to form a plow portion while the bottom surface extends forward in full width beneath said plow portion and at least to the tip of it. A drag frame pivotally attached to the surface of the sliding/planing body rearward of its forward section. The axis of pivot for the frame running transversely of the direction of advancement for the sliding/planing body. The trackforming members producing a track with strong, compacted walls, without weighing down the apparatus.

Abstract: The present spreading apparatus for road construction mixtures, such as bituminous cold mixtures, has at least two V- or U-shaped screeding structures or screeds one leading and the other trailing with respect to the working direction. The leading screed extends tandemly, partially into the angle formed by the trailing screed. The leading screed structure has a worm type conveyor connected parallel to each wall of the V- or U-shaped screed. The worm type conveyor assures the homogenity of the road construction mixture and reduces the inherent pressure of the mixture against the leveling elements. Both the leading and the trailing screed are adjustably inclined away from the working direction. The adjustment of the screed position may be made, for example, by a spindle with a hand wheel.

Abstract: A snowplowing blade includes a reverse scraping blade pivotally mounted to the rear surface of a conventional plow blade and supported such that when the conventional blade is lowered and moving in a reverse direction, the scraping blade is held in a stationary position at an obtuse angle with respect to a surface for removing snow from normally inaccessible areas such as the front of garage doors. When the conventional blade is moved in a forward direction during normal plowing, the reverse scraping blade pivots out of the way so as not to interfere with normal plow operation.

Abstract: A hammer plow is provided with a series of disks spaced along and rotatable with a sleeve that turns about an axle on a number of bearings located therebetween. Each of the disks has a plurality of hammers rotatably attached thereto, which are free to rotate in complete circles. The rotatable length of the hammers is shorter than the distance from the points of attachment to the disks to the sleeves or spacers therebetween. A hammer striking an obstruction in ground to be plowed will not break, but is free to counter-rotate relative to the disk to which it is attached. Numerous agricultural and construction grading operations can be performed in a single pass of the device over ground to be plowed.

Abstract: A particulate material spreader comprising a ground-contacting platform adapted for detachable connection to towing device which causes the platform to traverse the ground so as to engage at least in part the surface thereof subtended by the platform. Engagement is by one or more members supported by the platform transversely with respect to the transit path of the platform. Each member has at least one vertically resolvable surface irrespective of the attitude of the platform. The connection is such that a pre-set angle of the platform with respect to a horizontal plane is maintained during transit whereby the members gouge relatively high areas of engaged ground and fill relatively low areas thereof with spoil from those high areas. The platform is attached to the towing device by a selectively detachable three-point linkage which may be mounted on one end or the other of the platform.

Abstract: An elongated main frame is provided including front and rear end portions. An elongated dual track endless track drive assembly is oscillatably supported from the rear end portion of the frame for angular displacement about a first horizontal transverse axis intermediate the opposite ends of the track drive assembly. A front dirigible ski equipped support assembly is carried by the front end portion of the frame forward of the drive assembly and an elongated longitudinally extending sub-frame including front and rear end portions is supported from the main frame front end portion for angular displacement about a second horizontal axis extending transversely of the main frame and the front end portion of the sub-frame. The rear end portion of the sub-frame includes transversely spaced depending packed and icy snow cover working times and an upstanding transverse blade member rearward of the tines including a generally horizontal lower edge portion.

Abstract: An apparatus and more specifically a drag adapted to form and condition a ski trail, and in particular two generally parallel ski traces as commonly used for cross-country skiing, such that the ski traces are of uniform parallelism and depth and are free of lumps of ice and snow. This drag includes a rear sled unit and a front unit, a pair of runners forming ski traces secured under the sled unit, a pivotal connection joining the two units and allowing only up-and-down sliding and yaw pivoting of the rear unit relative to the front unit. The rear unit includes a sled platform and a pair of runners of particular construction to cooperatively produce ski traces of uniform parallelism and depth. The front unit includes a frame carried by a runner and adjustable height relative to the latter, scrapers pivoted to the frame of the front unit between a downward operative position and an elevated inoperative position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an earthworking implement or attachment adapted to be connected to and powered by a prime mover such as a tractor, front-end loader, or the like. More particularly, the earthworking implement of the present invention is designed to spread and level dirt and soil material in one operation, and thereafter to appropriately generally tamp, pack or compress the dirt or material to a desired density which may customarily be done in layers. Structurally, the earthworking implement or attachment of the present invention comprises a frame structure having a ground engaging roller, sometimes referred to as a tamping roller, rotatively mounted therein, with the frame structure having a blade disposed forwardly thereacross. A driven counterweight assembly is also on the frame structure and when driven the counterweight assembly imparts a vibratory-massaging action causing the roller to tamp, compress, or massage the dirt or soil being passed thereover.