Abstract:
The invention provides extension links for lawn maintenance equipment to move the front axle forward and allow oversize wheels to be used, increasing flotation capability for soft soil while maintaining the height adjustability.
Abstract:
This cultivator includes a base, which is carried by a pair of ground wheels, and a motor mounted to the base above a pair of auger assemblies. The motor shaft extends rearwardly of the base and the auger assemblies include elongate shafts rotatively mounted within sleeves attached to the base. The motor shaft and the auger shafts are connected at their rear ends by a chain and sprocket drive assembly which provides counter-rotational motion in the two auger shafts. The forward ends of the auger shafts are each provided with a screw and spaced radial tines of progressively increasing length.
Abstract:
An irrigation ditch cleaner consisting of a T-shaped frame bar adapted to be attached to a tractor. A transverse rotor is journaled to the frame bar and has cutting blades and fins. The rotor is adapted to be drivingly connected to the power takeoff shaft of the tractor. The frame bar has a transverse guard shield with an inclined top deflection flange, the shield being located forwardly adjacent the rotor flange overlying the rotor. The shield has spaced parallel longitudinal forwardly extending supporting skids at its bottom end adapted to slidably support the rotor in a ditch to be cleaned.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for tilling ground material. According to one embodiment, a tiller system is provided comprising two coiled conical blades that penetrate ground material to provide both forward propulsion and tillage of the ground material. An operator of the tiller system can adjust the angle at which the coiled conical blades penetrate the ground material to achieve an optimal balance of forward propulsion, stability, and tillage of the ground material.
Abstract:
A soil cultivating machine comprises a cultivating member having discs and a tined roller, both of which are power-driven. Holes are provided in the discs and the periphery of each disc is divided into plate tine members by recesses. Tines extending from the tined roller extend between adjacent discs. In operation, the discs cut the soil into strips, and these strips are then engaged by tines of the tined roller. Further equipment, such as a seed drill, cultivator, or roller or a combination of these may be hitched to the machine.
Abstract:
This invention relates to an auger and to a plow including such auger. This specification discloses an auger which is suitable for use even in the difficult terrain encountered in typical reforestation operations. An auger in accordance with this disclosure has its axis extending in the direction of movement of the plow and is arranged to rotate in a direction opposing the forward movement of the plow. The auger has a plurality of generally helical turns. Sections of the ground engaging portions around the periphery of the turns have an angle of attack in a plane at a selected angle to the axis of the auger and other sections have angles of attack in planes at a different angle. These ground engaging sections of the periphery are preferably teeth which because of the difference in angles discussed above attack the ground at different cutting angles. The dislodged earth will as is normal with an auger be flung sideways as a furrough is formed, but it will also have a component of motion which is either forward or backwards in relation to the direction of travel of the plow. When, as previously explained the auger is rotating to oppose the direction of the plow, this forward or backward component of motion will depend on the rate of forward movement of the plow less the rearward displacement of particles relative to the auger shaft. While the net effect of the auger is to resist forward motion, selected sections may have an opposite pitch or orientation and those limited sections would have the opposite effect.