Abstract: An apparatus for installing a preassembled silt fence into soil and mountable to a vehicle, including a holder mountable to the vehicle and capable of holding a roll of preassembled silt fence for unrolling rotation, a trenching member mountable to the vehicle for cutting a trench in the soil as the vehicle travels, a guide mountable to the vehicle proximate to the holder for guiding unrolled silt fence at least partially into the trench as the vehicle travels, a stake ram mountable to the vehicle proximate to the guide for driving stakes of the preassembled silt fence into the soil at the trench, and means for activating the stake ram when each stake reaches a predetermined position.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 25, 1998
Date of Patent:
December 12, 2000
Assignee:
Revoluntinary Machine and Installation LLC
Inventors:
Bert Wheeler, Jon Scott Rhodes, Robert Eric Abbott