Abstract: A wear plate assembly for a ground engaging system. The wear plate assembly includes a wear plate, a connection plate, and a lock cavity. The wear plate has a back surface and a front surface spaced from the back surface along a first direction. The connection plate extends from the front surface at least partially in the first direction. The connection plate has an inner surface and an outer surface spaced from the inner surface along a second direction. The lock cavity is formed by the connection plate. The lock cavity extends from a first opening that opens to the inner surface to a second opening that opens to the outer surface. The first opening has a first diameter and the second opening has a second diameter that is smaller than the first diameter.

Abstract: A leaf sweeper having a sweeper portion including engine driven, flexible, rotary tines mounted on an engine support frame pivotally connected about a vertical axis to a wheeled main frame. A steering linkage is connected between the engine support frame and wheeled main frame for moving the sweeper portion about the vertical axis through an arc on either side of the longitudinal axis of the wheeled main frame, and a locking control mechanism is connected between the steering linkage and the wheeled main frame for holding the sweeper portion in a selected position relative to the longitudinal axis of the wheeled main frame.

Abstract: A tool for cutting elongated turf strips has a cutting head secured to lateral stabilizing members. The cutting head is a rectangular box-shaped member having forward peripheral cutting edges. The stabilizing members have rollers that ride on the turf surface to ensure a uniform cutting depth of the cutting head. An upwardly and rearwardly directed handle is pivotally connected to the top wall of the cutting head to facilitate moving the cutting head through turf to cut a strip of sod therefrom.

Abstract: A hand-pushable, tilling device includes a main frame carrying ground-engaging front and rear wheels, handle means on the frame and a selection of tilling tools, including at least a furrow-forming tool and a cultivating tool, each having a shank portion terminating in a transversely extending soil-penetrating projection. The main frame includes a tool-holding frame supported for pivotal movement about a lateral, horizontal axis. In the uppermost position of the tool-holding frame, the latter frame presents a generally horizontally extending recess into which the shank portion of either tool is slidably mountable and locked preferably by a spring-urged latching means. The depth of penetration and the angle of penetration of the soil-penetrating projecting portion of the selected tool is varied preferably by screw means passing through a support member pivoted on a lateral, horizontal axis upon the main frame and secured to a pivoted second support member attached to the tool-holding frame.