Vibrating cutting machine

Portable manually operated apparatus for cutting turf comprising an elongated rod having a longitudinal axis arranged to extend perpendicular to the turf, a housing mounted at an upper end of said rod and a cutter mounted at a lower end of said rod, said housing having a front, a back, and right and left connecting sides, said cutter having a blade substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis of said rod and parallel to said sides for penetrating and cutting said turf along a vertical plane, said elongated rod being journaled at its upper end in said housing for reciprocal movement in the direction of its longitudinal axis, a rotary motor and power converter mounted in said housing, said power converter being directly linked to the upper end of said rod to convert the rotary motion of said motor into constant reciprocating linear motion actuating said rod, a pair of handles, means for pivotally mounting each of said handles at their inner ends independently to the respective right and left connecting sides of said housing and protruding toward a user, said mounting means permitting each handle to be separately adjustable of the other to a number of fixed positions at selected angles relative to the longitudinal axis of said rod, enabling the user to manually raise and lower said right and left connecting sides separately, one from the other, to hold said apparatus most optimally in a perpendicular working position during the constant reciprocation of said actuating rod.