Bare root tree and stump extracting tool

A tool, for use on a powering vehicle having a multi-point hitch with paired laterally spaced lifting arms and at least one tilting arm, for bare root extraction of trees, large plants and stumps, comprising in combination:

• a frame fitting between the lifting arms of the powering vehicle and having an upper yoke carrying similar laterally spaced vertically depending legs with lower end portions interconnected by an elongate laterally extending lower beam;
• connecting structure, carried by the frame for releasable interconnection with the multi-point hitch of the powering vehicle having
• similar opposed pivot pins extending laterally outwardly from each leg of the frame to pivotally interconnect the lifting arms of the powering vehicle, and
• at least one tilting arm connecting bracket carried by the frame laterally between and spacedly above the pivot pins;
• a
• extracting structure having a plurality of elongate extracting tines releasably carried in laterally spaced array in the lower beam to extend therefrom in angulated orientation to the frame and in a direction distal from the connecting structure, said extracting tines
• releasably carried in first collars, structurally carried in the lower beam, by fasteners extending between the collars and the extracting tines,
• having second diametrically larger collars structurally carried by the tines adjacent and abutting the first collars to provide strength, rigidity and positioning,
• having sharp outer ends distal from the lower beam to aid earth penetration, and
• at least one extracting tine carrying an elongate structurally interconnected fin extending parallel to the tine to aid determination of the tine course during insertion in the earth, said fin extending over the second collar and any adjacent portion of the first collar extending from the lower beam.