Abstract: A surface conditioning attachment for a motor grader or the like for use in maintenance operations on gravel roadways comprises a gang of harrow disks carried on a support shaft, there being a support structure for deploying said disks laterally outwardly of the grader at an angle to the direction of travel and with the concave sides of the disks facing forwardly. In use the gang of disks engages the surface of the road shoulder and cuts up and moves gravel and vegetation thereon laterally towards the roadway.

Abstract: A surface conditioning attachment for a motor grader or the like for use in maintenance operations on gravel roadways comprises a gang of harrow disks carried on a support shaft, there being a support structure for deploying said disks laterally outwardly of the grader at an angle to the direction of travel and with the concave sides of the disks facing forwardly. In use the gang of disks engages the surface of the road shoulder and cut up and moves gravel and vegetation thereon laterally towards the roadway.

Abstract: A disc ridger having an arrangement of disc gangs that substantially eliminates sidewise draft or clogging tendencies found in previous disc ridgers, also incorporating additional discs located for completing the tillage of the area swept by the disc ridger is described.

Abstract: An improved earth working implement is disclosed which is particularly suitable for surgarcane cultivation, said implement having four main pluralities of saucer shaped cultivator discs carried by a trailer, each of said pluralities being individually adjustable to vary the angular relationship of the discs relative to the longitudinal axis of the trailer as well as the lateral spacing between the discs and said axis. A pair of retractable wheels are provided to permit the trailer to be towed between a storage area and the sugarcane fields. An adjustable soil deflector disc is disposed adjacent to and rearwardly of each plurality of discs to deflect the soil removed by the cultivator discs in a loosened condition back into the general area from which it was removed. Two additional pairs of cultivator discs are rotatably, angularly, adjustably attachable to the rear end of the trailer.

Abstract: A cultivating implement such as a discer is provided with a coulter disc engageable with the ground and secured to the tail beam with the depth being preset by the hydraulic setting of the main disc gang. A fluid operator is included at a preset pressure and normally is fully extended until an obstruction is reached at which time the preset pressure is exceeded and the fluid operator or ram unloads and allows the coulter to raise up and clear the obstruction. Once cleared, the pressure in the ram returns the coulter to the preset depth. This coulter assists in maintaining the angle of travel of the discer, particularly on side hills, together with the pivoted rudder wheel assembly. In this invention the rudder wheel assembly is normally held against a stop at the desired angle, by a further ram or fluid operator instead of a spring and which only unloads during turning to allow rudder wheel assembly to break away.

Abstract: A surface conditioning attachment for a motor grader or the like for use in maintenance operations on gravel roadways comprises a gang of harrow disks carried on a support shaft, there being a support structure for deploying said disks laterally outwardly of the grader at an angle to the direction of travel and with the concave sides of the disks facing forwardly. In use the gang of disks engages the surface of the road shoulder and cuts up and moves gravel and vegetation thereon laterally towards the roadway.