Digging and planting machine
AssigneeMooch Domsjo Aktiebolag
InventorsStig-Gunnar Lofgren, Bo Gunnar Ekeborg
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Abstract
A digging and planting machine is provided having a tubular digging and planting tool, and means for compacting earth around the plant after planting, movable between ground-contacting and ground-elevated positions, the compacting means carrying the tubular digging and planting tool, and being movable into an earth-compacting position when the digging and planting tool is in a ground-elevated position.
Claims14
A digging and planting machine comprising, in combination, a vehicle, and, carried on the vehicle, a tubular digging and planting tool having an open digging and planting tip end for digging a hole and conveying a plant to the hole;
- means for compacting earth about the plant after it has been deposited in the hole;
- means for moving each of the digging and planting tool and the compacting means separately, between ground-elevated and ground-contacting positions;
- and means for moving the digging and planting tool and the compacting means together between ground-elevated and ground-contacting positions;
- the digging and planting tool being reciprocably mounted on the compacting means for movement towards and away from a ground-contacting position for digging a hole for a plant to be transferred from the machine, and the compacting means being reciprocably mounted on the vehicle, for movement towards and away from a ground-containing position for compacting earth about the plant simultaneously with withdrawal of the digging and planting tool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.