Device for removing palmetto bushes
OwnerRichard C. Albergerinventor
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Abstract
A device for removing palmetto bushes which is adapted to be attached to a 3 point hitch and which is composed of a reinforced laterally extending or horizontally disposed frame having an attachment surface and a plurality of downwardly and forwardly extending equispaced fingers of tempered spring steel extending vertically downwardly and being forwardly tilted at an angle of between 5 and 20 degrees for use in digging, scraping, and raking palmetto bushes upon forward movement of a tractor to which the device is attached.
Claims10
A digging device adapted for attachment to a 3 point hitch of a tractor for use in removing palmetto bushes from the earth comprising;
- an angle iron support frame having a horizontal member with an upper horizontal surface and a vertical member with a forwardly faciang vertical surface, said vertical surface approximately at right angles to said horizontal surface and collectively defining a forward frame face,
- the frame face being reinforced by a plurality of generally right angle gusset members each connected at the vertical and horizontal surfaces on the foward face,
- a plurality of generally cylindrical, downwardly and forwardly extending teeth being of a uniform diameter and cross section having a first end fixedly connected to the horizontal member at predetermined widely spaced intervals and a second truncated terminal end, and means for adapting the frame for use with a 3 point tractor-type hitch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.