Method and apparatus for installing silt fence

Details Method and apparatus for installing silt fence Method and apparatus for installing silt fence

1998-09-25

2000-12-12

Lillis, Eileen D.

Hydraulic and earth engineering

Fluid control, treatment, or containment

Flow control

405258, 256 125, 37403, E02B 702, E01F 702

Patent

active

061589233

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for installing a preassembled silt fence into soil and mountable to a vehicle, including a holder mountable to the vehicle and capable of holding a roll of preassembled silt fence for unrolling rotation, a trenching member mountable to the vehicle for cutting a trench in the soil as the vehicle travels, a guide mountable to the vehicle proximate to the holder for guiding unrolled silt fence at least partially into the trench as the vehicle travels, a stake ram mountable to the vehicle proximate to the guide for driving stakes of the preassembled silt fence into the soil at the trench, and means for activating the stake ram when each stake reaches a predetermined position. A method for installing preassembled silt fence into soil, including mounting a roll of preassembled silt fence to a vehicle for unrolling rotation, rotating the roll to unroll silt fence by a length generally equivalent to a distance traveled by the vehicle, cutting a trench in the soil proximate to unrolled silt fence with a trenching member mounted to the vehicle as the vehicle travels, feeding at least a portion of the unrolled silt fence into the trench as the vehicle travels, and driving stakes of the preassembled silt fence into the soil at the trench with a stake ram mounted to the vehicle as the vehicle travels, so that the silt fence is installed generally vertically in the soil and at least partially within the trench.

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