Abstract: A machine pushed trencher assembly includes a first plate that is triangularly shaped. A pair of second plates is coupled singly to and extends transversely from opposing sides of the first plate. The second plates are coupled to define a cutting edge. A fourth plate that is coupled to a base of the first plate is configured to couple to a front end of a machine. A second bar is coupled to the fourth plate and extends angularly above the second plates. A third bar is pivotally coupled to the second bar. An actuator is coupled to the second and third bars. At least one wheel is rotationally coupled to the third bar. The machine compels the cutting edge through a substrate to prepare a trench. The actuator positions the wheel so that it rolls on a surface of the substrate to control a depth of the trench.

Abstract: A device for leveling playing fields is useful for ensuring that bowling greens are flattened within established parameters. The device for leveling playing fields comprises a main frame mechanically coupled to a front skid and a rear skid and a blade assembly where the blade assembly further comprises cutting blades driven by a blade drive chain mechanically coupled to an engine. The main frame is further mechanically coupled to a lawn tractor such that a user can drive the lawn tractor over a playing field and use the front skid to knock the turf in hills loose, the cutting blades both manicure the playing field and cut loose turf which can be pushed by the rear skid into valleys.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting turf, for soil de-compacting and for soil drainage and irrigation. The apparatus has a chassis with a ground engaging means, an adjustable working arm having a chassis-engaging end movably mounted on the chassis and a tool-engaging end having means for receiving a tool. The apparatus also has means for oscillating the tool-engaging end of the adjustable working arm. The oscillating means comprises a drive means mounted on the chassis and a connecting means, preferably a single connecting rod, mounted intermediate the drive means and the adjustable working arm.

Abstract: An improved moldboard plow having a soil engaging shank mounted behind the moldboard plow bottoms. The soil engaging shank is extendable to a depth of six to eight or more inches below the point reached by the moldboard plow bottoms. Both the moldboard and the shank are fitted with trip mechanisms to raise them up when either or both encounter a hard buried object. Preferably the shank includes a hydraulic cylinder for raising and lowering the shank as needed.

Abstract: A scraping device, a system and a method for collecting a material are provided. The scraping device may have a bowl having a first end and a second end. A lip may be positioned at the first end and may cover an opening at the first end. In an embodiment, direct mounted cylinders may be attached to the lip and may move the lip to completely cover or uncover the opening. The scraping device may have a tongue mounted to the bowl having a triangular-shaped plate mechanism that may be used to raise and to lower a cutting edge attached to the bowl. Cylinders connected to the mechanism may be retracted or extended to raise or to lower the scraping device. A load within the scraping device may be lifted by force exerted from a barrel end of a cylinder, thus utilizing a maximum potential of the cylinder.

Abstract: An apparatus for connecting a mechanized implement to an all-terrain vehicle having an undercarriage with a front axle and a rear axle includes a unitary frame having a base connected to the unitary frame and a swingable portion. The mechanized implement includes an auxiliary power source separate from the power means of the all-terrain vehicle. The unitary frame includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion connectable to the undercarriage proximate the front axle and the second portion connectable to the undercarriage proximate the rear axle. The base supports the auxiliary power source and is positioned proximate the second portion of the frame. The swingable portion includes a first end pivotally attached to the frame and a second end mateable with the mechanized implement.

Abstract: A tiller (10) having an engine (24), a plurality of rotating times (20), and a handle (26) which are rotatable with respect to a main frame (12) of the tiller (10) and cooperate with pivoting wheels (14) to facilitate turning of the tiller (10) while maintaining balance and stability.

Abstract: An actuator for raising and lowering a blade mounted to a vehicle. A winch assembly is mounted to the blade and is powered by the vehicle battery. The motor has a low amperage draw and has a gear reduction unit to provide mechanical advantage. The cable extending from the winch is arranged to have a double pull to provide an additional mechanical advantage.

Abstract: A cutter, device and cutting method utilizing the same including cutter blades which work soil and wood material and which are arranged on a cutter drum to rotate and by-pass a counter blade. The device includes a tamping drum which is displaceable in relation to a frame of the cutter device by an actuator.

Abstract: An implement for gathering objectionable rocks and debris from the ground including a positive stop for limiting the range of displacement of the gathering mechanism relative to the ground. In the embodiment described, the gathering mechanism comprises a first roller to engage the ground to dislocate rocks and debris therefrom; and a second roller forming a gap above the first roller through which only selected rocks and debris may pass. The height of the first and second rollers in reference to the ground is vertically adjustable. The first and second roller are displaced upward by large forces placed upon the first roller.

Abstract: A minimum tillage farm implement capable of being used for plowing, cultivating, planting and insecticide and herbicide and fertilizer application, which includes a tool bar frame having three parallel spaced apart laterally positioned tool bars held together by detachable interconnecting frame members. Coulters, chisel plows and discing pairs are mounted in series to the front tool bar. Variable width rototillers are attached to the middle tool bar and planters are attached to the rear tool bar, both serially alligned with the discing pairs. The coulters, chisel plows, discs and rototillers prepare a fine seed bed, even in stalks and stubble, to allow beneficial planting of row crop seeds by the planters. In a second mode the front and rear tool bars are detached leaving only the middle tool bar with rototillers, which can be adjusted for width and position to perform as cultivators of the areas between adjacent seed beds.

Abstract: A soil preparation machine is pulled by a tractor across a field in which rows of plants and tracks followed by the tractor are at permanent locations from season to season. Soil from between the remains of two rows of the previous season's plants is lifted by a blade and delivered to the forward end of a belt conveyor which is slanted rearwardly and upwardly. Devices on the machine upturn the remains of the previous season's plants and the soil beneath them. Soil falls from the rear end of the conveyor onto the upturned remains. The blade and conveyor are narrower than the distance between the rows of plants, and the upturning devices are aligned with the rows of plants inboard of the tractor tracks.

Abstract: An apparatus used in agriculture and more specifically to an apparatus for removing the plastic film cover from raised plant beds in which the edges thereof are tucked under soil placed in overlying relation to the downwardly inclined side edges of the plastic film thereby enabling separation of the plastic film from the plant bed after the plants have matured and the crop harvested from the plants so that the plastic film can be removed and appropriate cultivation and reshaping of the plant beds may be more effectively accomplished with the apparatus of the present invention materially reducing the time and labor required in removing the plastic film for disposal or recycling.

Abstract: A minimum tillage farm implement capable of being used for plowing, cultivating, planting and insecticide and herbicide and fertilizer application, which includes a tool bar frame having three parallel spaced apart laterally positioned tool bars held together by detachable interconnecting frame members. Coulters, chisel plows and discing pairs are mounted in series to the front tool bar. Variable width rototillers are attached to the middle tool bar and planters are attached to the rear tool bar, both serially aligned with the discing pairs. The coulters, chisel plows, discs and rototillers prepare a fine seed bed, even in stalks and stubble, to allow beneficial planting of row crop seeds by the planters. In a second mode the front and rear tool bars are detached leaving only the middle tool bar with rototillers, which can be adjusted for width and position to perform as cultivators of the areas between adjacent seed beds.

Abstract: A machine for planting seeds includes a rotary soil lifting device which lifts broken-up soil, a tamping roller which tamps the remaining broken-up soil, an arrangement for placing seeds onto the upper surface of the tamped layer of the ground, and an arrangement for conveying the soil lifted by the soil lifting device past and upwardly of the tamping roller and for depositing this soil onto the tamped surface and onto the seeds placed thereon as a layer of uniform thickness. A compacting roller may be used to compact the soil of this layer after the formation of the latter, and the machine includes breaking-up tools of the fixed or rotating type mounted at the front region of the machine for breaking up the soil prior to and to a depth sufficient for the performance of the lifting operation by the soil lifting device. The conveying arrangement may include two hoods which together define a passage through which the lifted soil advances upwardly of and beyond the tamping roller.

Abstract: A rotary cultivator is disclosed which is adapted to be supported upon a rear-mounted tractor hitch. The cultivator includes a tined cultivation shaft and a hydraulic motor and drive mechanism for driving one end of the shaft. The cultivator includes an arrangement for selectively varying the speed ratio of the hydraulic motor and cultivation shaft, as well as for selectively changing the length of the cultivation shaft so that the width of the path of soil cultivation may be changed as desired. A pair of spaced, negatively angled ground-engaging surfaces are provided on the cultivator housing for urging the cultivator downwardly during forward movement thus providing a more uniform depth of penetration during soil cultivation.

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 plow has coupling members at its forward side for connection to a multi-point hitch of a tractor. Furrow slicing members at the front form furrow slices which are elevated to furrow turning drums during operation. The furrow slices are turned about their longitudinal axes and deposited to the rear by the rotating drums. The drums are mounted on rollers and driven preferably by a hydraulic motor to rotate about upwardly and forwardly extending axes at variable speeds so that the angle through which each slice is turned can be adjusted depending on the soil condition. Projections within the drums turn the furrow slices which can be inverted and deposited to the rear. Also, an upper guide roller or auger can be located above the drums to guide and/or laterally displace the slices as they enter the drums.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a unique method of moving earth and an earth moving device which can be attached at the front end of an endless track vehicle and used for moving earth into a ditch or excavation. The apparatus for moving earth comprises: (a) earth contacting blade; (b) an endless track mounted in association with the earth contacting blade for moving the earth in a direction lateral to the direction of travel of the earth contacting blade; and (c) a vehicle for moving blade (a) and track (b) above in co-operation with one another. The method of moving earth comprises advancing an earth moving blade through a continuous ridge of earth in a manner such that the speed of advance of the advancing earth moving blade is synchronized with the speed of movement of a laterally travelling earth moving track so that substantially all of the earth is moved laterally in the direction of travel of the laterally travelling earth moving track.

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 ground working implement is provided wherein a motor driven auger is positioned beneath and partially enclosed by a truncated V-shaped plowshare. The auger contributes to the forward movement of the implement. The space between the auger and the plowshare causes clods of soil to be uniformly broken. Mechanical features are provided, in association with a frame structure, to guide the implement, to adjust the height of the auger, and to control the operation of a motor or engine.

Abstract: An implement has a row of plough bodies mounted to rotate about upwardly extending axes defined by shafts that are inclined in the normal direction of travel. The plough bodies are flat support members with side edges that taper downwardly. The side edges are bent over parts that releasably mount straight blades and the upper ends of the supports have fastening plate portions bolted to their shafts. A circular protective screen and circular plate interfit at the junction of the shaft and fastening portion of each plough body. The shafts have intermeshed pinions with a central one of the shafts extending into a lower gear box that houses exchangeable pinions. The central shaft mounts one of the pinions that engages a second pinion having a respective shaft that extends through a cover into a second gear box and a gear wheel housed therein. The gear wheel engages a further gear wheel on an input shaft that is connectable to the p.t.o. of a tractor.

Abstract: A farm implement having a main frame; at least two carriage wheels for supporting the frame; a plurality of brackets mounted in pairs on the frame, each pair of brackets defining a sled; a plurality of knives mounted on each sled in a generally horizontal plane; a weeder bar rotatably supported by the brackets; and a hydraulic motor mounted on the frame for driving the weeder bar in a counter clockwise direction as the implement is moved in a direction whereby the carriage wheels rotate in a clockwise direction.

Abstract: An implement attachable to the lifting links of a tractor has at least one, preferably two, rows of tines fixed to respective transverse frame beams. Between the rows of fixed tines, a supporting roller is pivoted to the frame. The roller can be adjusted relative to the frame to regulate the working depth of the first row of tines. An elongated soil working member is connected to the rear tined beam by a parallelogram linkage and a drive transmission, including at least one eccentric, is connected to upwardly extending support standards to reciprocate the working member in up and down directions so that lumps of soil are crumbled and levelled. The parallelogram linkage is resiliently connected or associated with the frame by opposing springs that permit reciprocal movements of the working member relative to the rear row of tines. The eccentric can be meshed pinions in a housing that are rotated by a drive shaft and each pinion weighted to be out of phase with the other by 180.degree..

Abstract: A cultivating implement has a supporting frame and elongated tined beams, extending transverse to the direction of travel, located below the frame. Each tined beam is connected to respective eccentric mechanisms mounted on two rotatable shafts that extend in the direction of travel and the shafts are supported on frame beams. One of the shafts is connected to a driving shaft via a gear box that houses a step-up gear transmission and drives the other shaft via the beams. The tined beams are moved through circular paths out of phase with respect to one another and can mount tines that crumble soil or strip-shaped tines that cut vegetation. A supporting roller is adjustably mounted on the frame to trail the tines and further work the soil.

Abstract: A cultivating machine has tines mounted on an elongated horizontal support that is driven to move the tines forwardly through the soil towards the normal direction of travel. The tines are in groups along the length of the support and each group has a number of pairs of opposing units. Each unit includes bracket portions having two rims and a tine is fastened to each rim. Opposing portions are bolted together to form a whole bracket that mounts four tines around the support. Each tine is a strip-shaped member that is hook-like in configuration with an inner straight portion and an outer soil working portion having a pointed tip. The inner portion has a series of holes along its length which can be releasably fastened to a respective rim in any one of a plurality of positions that change the working length of the tine. A front hood partially surrounds the tines and support and a rod grating is positioned at the rear of the tines. A rear hood is connected to the machine and located behind the grating.

Abstract: A cultivating implement has a row of soil working members that are driven to rotate about upwardly extending axes and work overlapping paths. The working members each have freely rotatable tools which turn about further upwardly extending axes responsive to ground contact. The tools' axes of rotation can be angled to that of the corresponding working member. Also, one or more tines can be fixed in place to a support of the working member. A distribution member can be secured to the frame at the rear of each region of overlap of the soil working members to displace soil laterally. Also, an elongated supporting roller has portions with bent rods located to the rear of the distribution members. The rods engage the soil worked by the rotation working members and initially displaced by the distribution members. The bends of the rods can be positioned in line with the distribution members to further urge soil laterally of the direction of implement travel.

Abstract: An implement has one or more rows of tines fixed to frame beams and the lateral sides of the frame have adjustable ground wheels to control the working depths of the tines. A further soil working member is connected at the rear of the frame by parallelogram linkages and a driven eccentric on the further member imparts up and down vibratory movements to that member. Each linkage includes a bracket, the lower front portion of which is pivoted to a rear frame beam and rearwardly extending arms that are pivoted to vertical support arms that carry and move the further member. Above the pivot connection to the frame, the bracket has connection points for a tie arm that extends forward to a leading frame beam. A fixing mechanism interconnects the upper linkage arm with the front of the bracket at two spaced apart locations and springs in the mechanism bias the arm and further member to an equilibrium position.

Abstract: A rotary harrow has a plurality of soil-working members rotatably mounted on upwardly extending shafts and the shafts are journalled in an elongated frame portion that extends transverse to the direction of travel. A protective and supporting member of elongated configuration is secured to the frame portion. The protective member can be nonrotatable but is angularly displaceable about a horizontal axis that extends generally parallel to the frame portion. The protective member has an inclined surface that can be curved or substantially flat and the outer surface faces the soil working members and is positioned relative to those members to direct debris downwardly to the ground. Stops on the frame portion and protective member limit the latter's movement relative to the remainder of the harrow.

Abstract: A soil cultivating machine has a row of tined rotors on an elongated frame portion that extends transverse to the direction of travel. An elongated soil crumbling member is pivoted to the frame portion at the front of that portion and settable to level the ground and provide support for the machine. A second elongated crumbling member is linked at the rear of the frame portion for free pivoting responsive to ground irregularities to further crumble the soil worked by the tined rotors. Both crumbling members have parallelogram linkage connections so that the relative positions of the crumbling members to the frame portion can vary without those members tilting. The bottoms of the crumbling members can be corrugated plates or other configured elements designed to bear on the ground and be self cleaning. Also, the rotors can have resilient or freely rotatable mountings to allow for the displacement of tines when meeting obstacles.

Abstract: An implement has a row of tined motors that work a broad path of soil. Immediately in front of the rotors is a soil displacing elongated bar that is held to penetrate and raise a shallow layer of soil which is thereafter deposited immediately in front of the working tines. The bar extends parallel to the row of rotors and has a flat bottom that slightly compresses the ground from which the layer of soil is being displaced. The bar can be raised or lowered on supports interconnected to the frame. In front of the bar, a V-shaped guide can be connected to smooth the soil engaged by wheels of the prime mover. A rear roller can be positioned to further level the layer of soil that has been worked by the counter rotating rotors so that a seed bed can be finally prepared in one pass.

Abstract: A tilling machine has a frame with a row of tines or rotatable tined soil working members in a row that extends transverse to the direction of travel. A drive is connected to rock the tines or rotate the tined members during operation. The same drive has an eccentric that links an elongated tilling member to the machine at the rear of the tines. The tilling member is pivoted to the frame and movable through a closed but non circular path by the eccentric and elongate elements of the tilling member are moved through a renoform path to both work and level ground previously worked by the tines. Adjustments to change the working levels of the tines and/or the tilling member can be made by rearranging the linkage connections to the frame.

Abstract: A tillage machine includes a main frame that supports rotary soil working tined members and various additional tools that can be detachably fastened to the main frame in combination with the rotary tined members to landscape in one pass. For primary use, a ripper assembly is detachably fastened at the front of the frame in advance of the rotary soil working members. A pulverizer-support roller is detachably fastened to the frame in a trailing position and a leveler bar supported between the roller and the rotary members to prevent ridging. A seed box with delivery system can be mounted on the roller frame and driven by a transmission connected to the roller axle. A packer roller is detachably pivoted to the frame to leave the ground in a finished condition.

Abstract: A harrow attachment has side-by-side rotary soil-working members mounted on upright axes journalled in a frame. A delivery mechanism with an elongated hopper and agitators and/or other feeding mechanisms can be connected to be rotatable and driven by the power take off of the prime mover or transmission connections from a rotary roller pivotably secured on arms to the frame to trail the working members. The working members are rotors with tines or earth working portions formed by a single metal sheet material which has been bent over to form two downwardly extending blades with lower parts that are inclined rearwardly. The blades are twisted so that leading cutting edges work overlapping paths and a horizontal portion of the rotors is secured by breakable bolts to upright shafts.

Abstract: A wheeled attachment arm assembly, mountable alongside a power rotor tiller apparatus to which a rake or a blade may be fastened for preparing the surface of the ground, prior to tilling it. The assembly incorporates an arm which is threaded into and extends laterally from the side of a rotor tiller machine, with a hinged bar fastened to a collar fitted on the arm and extending forward of the arm. A shield is fastened to the hinged bar to project forward of the bar, with the shield riding on a wheel fixed under the forward section of the shield. A vertical support member is fastened under the shield to the bar, with attachment structure for fastening a rake, hoe or grading blade to the vertical support member.

Abstract: A tractor-mounted cultivator is combined with a frame on which fixed cultivating tools are mounted. The fixed tools extend behind the rotary cultivator to break up ground below the level of rotary cultivation. The frame is releasably attached to the rotary cultivator and the attachment means are such that the frame can be used independently by direct attachment to the tractor three-point linkage.