Turf implement having turf slicing reel with easily adjustable height control

A turf implement, which comprises:

• (a) a frame that carries a rotatable turf slicing reel;
• (b) a height adjustment member that moves in opposite directions on the frame to raise and lower the slicing reel relative to the turf;
• (c) a slot on one of the frame or the adjustment member with the slot having a plurality of spaced notches;
• (d) a pin carried on the other of the frame or the adjustment member with the pin being received in the slot and in any one of the notches to provide a desired adjusted position for the slicing reel height;
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• (e) a clamp having a quick release locking lever that is selectively rotated between a locked position in which the clamp is in a tightly compressed condition to hold the adjustment member in the desired adjusted position and an unlocked position in which the clamp is in a loosely expanded condition to permit the adjustment member to be moved to change the desired adjusted position, the locking lever being movable between the locked and unlocked positions thereof by rotating the locking lever through an arc that is less than 360°, a cam portion of the locking lever passing through a bore in the pin with the locking lever rotating about an axis of rotation that is perpendicular to an axis of elongation of the pin for moving the pin perpendicularly in opposite directions along the axis of elongation of the pin to cause the clamp to be placed into the tightly compressed and loosely expanded conditions thereof.

A turf implement, which comprises:

• (a) a frame that carries a rotatable turf slicing reel;
• (b) a height adjustment member that moves in opposite directions on the frame to raise and lower the slicing reel relative to the turf;
• (c) a slot on the frame, wherein the slot has a first set of a plurality of notches that are spaced along one edge of the slot to provide a first plurality of adjusted positions for the height of the slicing reel relative to the turf, wherein the slot has a second set of a plurality of notches spaced along a second edge of the slot that is opposite to the first edge of the slot, the notches in the second set being offset from the notches in the first set to provide a second plurality of adjusted positions for the height of the slicing reel that are between the adjusted positions that are provided by the notches in the first set to thereby increase the number of possible adjusted positions;
• (d) a pin carried on the adjustment member with the pin being received in the slot and at least partially in any one of the notches to provide a desired adjusted position for the slicing reel height, wherein the pin is movably carried in an elongated opening in the adjustment member to be movable relative to the adjustment member, the pin being displaceable within the elongated opening relative to the adjustment member in a first direction to move the pin at least partially out of the slot and at least partially into a desired notch in the first set of notches and with the pin being displaceable within the elongated opening relative to the adjustment member in a second opposite direction relative to the slot to move the pin at least partially out of the slot and at least partially into a desired notch in the second set of notches;
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• (e) a clamp coacting between the frame and the adjustment member with the clamp having a tightly compressed condition to hold the adjustment member in a position corresponding to a desired adjusted position of the slicing reel height and an unlocked position in which the clamp is in a loosely expanded condition to permit the adjustment member to be moved to change the desired adjusted position of the slicing reel height, wherein the clamp is carried by the pin and remains on the pin as the pin is displaced within the elongated opening of the adjustment member.