Abstract: The invention comprises a volley ball gravity feed practice striking apparatus. The apparatus has a basket at one end for storing volley balls, and a volley ball guideway at the other end, with a triggering mechanism between for advancing volley balls from the basket onto the guideway. The apparatus is adapted to be positioned at the upper end of a pole or standard, with the basket adjacent the pole and with the basket and guideway inclined slightly downward and away from the pole, with the pole mounted on a movable platform so that the pole and apparatus may be positioned on a volley ball court or floor parallel in length to a volley ball net stretched in operative use across the floor. The basket is of a size to receive a plurality of volley balls.

Abstract: A portable frame adapted to be mounted on a beach adjacent a lake. The portable frame has a reversible motor and a pair of drive wheels driven by the motor. A rake is provided with an elongated handle. The drive wheels of the frame are adapted to engage the handle of the rake to move the rake backward and forward powered by the motor. The rake has teeth which fold inward when the rake is moved forward into the lake along the lake floor powered by the motor and the teeth will remain upright when the rake is powered back out of the lake, so that the teeth will engage the weeds and will take or pull the weeds out of the bottom of the lake as the rake is powered back out of the lake.