Rock and root picker

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1974-04-03

1977-11-22

Kinsey, Russell R.

Unearthing plants or buried objects

Stone gathering and/or unearthing by impelling above-ground...

A01B 4300

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040591581

ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to rock and root pickers. The picker disclosed in this application consists of a mobile vehicle with a fork table mounted thereon for movement between a picking position wherein it skims rocks from a surface over which the vehicle is moving and a dumping position wherein the fork table is positioned upwardly from the surface. A rotary reel is also mounted on the vehicle forwardly of the fork table to engage small rocks and roll them rearwardly onto the fork table. A dump bucket is mounted on the vehicle rearwardly of the fork table and receives rocks from the fork table when it is raised. In a preferred embodiment the vehicle is a self propelled swather and the rock picker is an attachment that is mounted on the vehicle in place of the header thereof.

REFERENCES:
patent: 47566 (1865-05-01), Quimby
patent: 312237 (1885-02-01), Weatherbee
patent: 2795920 (1957-06-01), Steuerwald
patent: 3356158 (1967-12-01), Deaver et al.
patent: 3431979 (1969-03-01), Gregerson

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