Abstract: Highway and road maintenance costs and time are greatly reduced by an improved method of removing the typical mound of earth that accumulates along the edges of the roadway by providing an earth moving blade defined by a lengthwise bottom edge, a forward side edge, a rearward side edge and a front face, providing at the rearward side edge of the blade a dirt distribution device that includes a motor driven dirt sling unit, positioning the blade diagonally across the mound with its bottom edge penetrating the mound to slightly above the top surface of the road, moving the blade forward to move the portion of mound immediately in front of the blade across its face toward its rearward side edge, and rotating the dirt sling unit while allowing the earth ribbon to contact the sling unit thereby to disintegrate the ribbon into small pieces of earth that are thrown away from the rearward side edge of the blade.

Abstract: A dirt distribution device for attachment to the outboard end of an earth moving blade of a grader machine includes a motor driven rotary dirt slinger carried on a platform that is pivotally carried on a support arm that, in turn, pivots on the clamp unit that mounts the device to the blade. The device serves to sling dirt scraped up by the moving blade over areas inaccessible to the blade, e.g., around the base of trees planted in rows adjacent ditches that require periodic reconditioning by scrapping using grader machines. The device basically includes a turnbuckle or equivalent unit to adjust the radial angle of the support arm relative to the blade and a similar unit to adjust the radial angle of the platform relative to the support arm, but may include further adjustment units to add additional tilt modes to the platform.

Abstract: The present invention entails an agricultural implement for forming planting rows with a minimum of tillage. The implement of the present invention is designed to form a multiplicity of rows and accordingly includes a series of side-by-side row units. Each row unit includes a front colter, a ripper which follows the colter, a rotor tiller assembly disposed behind the ripper, a pair of laterally spaced soil confining panels extending between the ripper and the rotor tiller assembly, and a final following soil packer. Once the agricultural implement has traversed a certain area of the land, there is formed a multiplicity of planting rows with the area between the formed planting rows being untilled.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for covering drilling mud returns in a drilling mud pit. A soil-projecting apparatus which is attachable to the rear of a conventional farm tractor comprises a plurality of scoop-like members connected to a drive shaft member which is operably associated with the power take-off of the tractor, independently adjustable blade membes placed forward of the scoop-like members for displacing soil toward the scoop-like members, and a protective partial enclosure of the scoop-like members. A method for covering drilling mud returns comprises placing a first, supporting layer of a material adjacent the returns and placing a layer of topsoil adjacent the first, supporting layer.

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: This invention relates to earth processing equipment and, more particularly, to a scarifier or plow apparatus capable of deep soil penetration which has an attached earth fragmentation assembly. The apparatus comprises a frame mounting on its forward end, a scarifier assembly which is adjustable from the frame to provide varying soil penetration. An earth fragmentation assembly is permanently affixed to the frame immediately behind the scarifier and comprises a scoop bucket with internal, shaft-mounted rotatable arms or cudgelers for fragmentizing earth passing interiorly of the fragmentation assembly and with a fixed bottom support for the soil within the scoop bucket. This apparatus is particularly useful for the single pass processing of compacted agricultural beds.