Abstract: An auxiliary shovel operatively mounted on each side of an agricultural implement, each being laterally disposed relative to the usual rows of shovels. A ground marker laterally extending from each side of the implement and being automatically operable into down ground engaging and marking position and into raised inoperative position. Each auxiliary shovel being connected with the marker which extends laterally from the same side of the implement, and means automatically connecting each shovel to a marker, each shovel being in down operative ground engaging and digging position when its corresponding marker is in down ground marking position and being in inoperative raised position when its corresponding marker is in raised position. The positions of the two laterally extending markers being controlled by the operator of the implement.

Abstract: A Cultivator Planter comprising a traction wheel assembly of substantial width which is releasably connected to a steerable portion to push the steerable portion. The traction wheel assembly comprising two sections which are releasably connected together for removing one section from the other to substantially reduce the width of the assembly so that the apparatus may be driven over the roads of conventional width. Lateral movement of the other section relative to the steerable portion causing the other section to be released from said steerable portion. Power mechanism coactive between the steerable portion and the one section of the traction wheel assembly to move the steerable portion laterally relative to the one section of the traction wheel assembly so that the section is in proper position behind the steerable portion.

Abstract: A self propelled apparatus providing a cultivator, planter units and fertilizer tanks. A traction wheel assembly composed of a plurality of wheels adapted to propel the entire apparatus forwardly by pushing. The plurality of traction wheels being mounted from a traction wheel assembly frame and the traction wheel assembly frame being formed in two sections which are pivoted together at the mid-point thereof. The plurality of traction wheels being arranged in pairs and adjacent pairs of traction wheels being connected together for co-action therebetween. Separate means are provided for driving the traction wheels and such wheels being balanced and mounted from the pivotal frame will impart substantially no compacting forces to the treated soil. The apparatus includes structure and mechanism whereby the sections of the traction wheel assembly frame may be separated to thereby reduce the width of the traction wheel assembly and traction wheel assembly frame for road transport.