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US 10,299,443 B1Granted
Sod harvesters
AssigneeTrebro Holding, Inc.
InventorGregg Tvetene
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Abstract
A sod harvester for cutting a sod slab from a sod field and directing an unspoiled sod slab into a first carrier and a spoiled sod slab into a scrap sod carrier through pivoting an articulated conveyor from an inline condition to an offline condition or vice versa.
Claims20
A sod harvester comprising:
- a sod cutter for cutting a sod slab from a sod field;
- a sod slab conveyor having a ground end and a top end for elevating the cut sod slab from a ground level to the top end of the sod slab conveyor;
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- an articulated conveyor having a fixed end and a free end positionable proximate the top end of the sod slab conveyor with the free end movable between an inline position for receiving and carrying away an unspoiled sod slab from the top end of the sod slab conveyor and an offline position for dumping a spoiled sod slab from the top end of the sod slab conveyor.
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A sod harvester including:
- a first sod conveyor for removing a spoiled sod slab or an unspoiled sod slab from a sod field;
- a second sod conveyor pivotal from an inline condition to an offline condition for dumping the spoiled sod slab;
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- a transversely extending scrap sod carrier for receiving the spoiled sod slab from the sod conveyor when the sod conveyor is in the offline condition.
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A method of on-the-go isolation of scrap sod during sod harvesting comprising the steps of:
- cutting and elevating a plurality of sod slabs from a sod field with a first sod conveyor;
- periodically dropping a spoiled sod slab from the first sod conveyor by pivoting a second sod conveyor to an offline condition while continuing to transport an unspoiled sod slab on the second sod conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.