Abstract: A seend planter shoe adapted to lift displaced soil up and out of the planting furrow or furrows being formed as the shoe is drawn through agricultural soil, substantially without compressing the soil remaining in place and defining the furrow laterally, which shoe has a prow sloping upwardly and backwardly from a forward soil-penetrating point at and depending below the bottom of the shoe proper, which is substantially planar, and side walls that diverge backwardly and upwardly, from a prow piece to which they are rigidly joined, for from about one-half to about three-quarters the length of the shoe and continuing on longitudinally of the shoe substantially in parallel for the remainder of the length of the shoe. The side walls are preferably of steel plate faced outwardly over a substantial portion of their height by wear-resistant plastic plates and marginally of their bottom edges by strips of steel plate.

Abstract: An elongate roller, movable back and forth transversely across the bed of a truck from one side thereof, has rolled thereon a cover sheet which is unrolled and rerolled during the back and forth movement to cover a load in the truck bed. Levers pivotally mounted at opposite ends of the truck carry the roller and are moved by hydraulic power cylinders controlled from inside the cab of the truck. A special chain and sprocket arrangement drives the roller, and a special elastic drawcord and backup plate arrangement at opposite ends of the truck bed secures and seals the cover sheet at such opposite ends of the truck bed.