Subsoiling brush cutter hitch

• US 20060283055A1
• Filed: 06/15/2006
• Published: 12/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: The USA As Represented By The Department of Agriculture
• Original Assignee: The USA As Represented By The Department of Agriculture
• Inventors: Archuleta, James G., Karr, Michael W.
• Application Number:
  US11/453,512
• Publication Number:
  US 20060283055A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 37/404
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/962 Mounting of implements directly on tools already attached to the machine E02F3/404 and E02F3/8152 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/965 of metal-cutting or concrete-crushing implements shearing devices B23D17/00; wrecking of buildings, e.g. tools therefor, E04G23/08

Abstract

A subsoiling brush cutter hitch adapted for receiving a mower, a subsoiling shank, and optionally a coulter blade, enables combining activities for two dissimilar resource management practices, mastication (mowing) and subsoiling.

Claims

1. A combination masticator and subsoiling implement adapted for pivotal attachment to an excavating machine, comprising:

(a) a frame;

(b) a masticator securely attached to said frame and having a plane of rotation; and

(c) a shank socket affixed to said frame, said socket adapted to receive and secure a subsoiling shank having a substantially pointed earth-working end, and wherein said socket is further adapted to orient said shank in an operating position when the masticator plane of rotation is substantially vertical to the ground.

2. The implement of embodiment 1, wherein said shank socket is adapted to receive at least one removable fastener for securing said subsoiling shank within said socket.

3. The implement of embodiment 1 and further comprising a coulter blade adjacent to said shank socket.

4. The implement of embodiment 1, and further comprising a subsoiling shank secured within said shank socket.

5. The implement of embodiment 4, wherein said subsoiling shank lies substantially in a plane and comprises at least one wing perpendicular to said plane.

6. The implement of embodiment 4 and further comprising a coulter blade adjacent to said shank socket and positioned between said subsoiler shank and said frame.