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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2001
Stanley E. McFarlane, Sauk City, WI (US);
McFarlane Manufacturing Co., Inc., Sauk City, WI (US);
Abstract
A low till agricultural implement has a frame with a hitch for attachment to a tractor. A straight coulter composed of an array of parallel circular blades is mounted to the front of the frame, and is followed by a spiral reel assembly and a spike tooth harrow assembly. The circular blades are mounted perpendicular to rotating shafts, and slice through field residue and soil with minimal side movement of material. The blades of the following reel then make cuts nearly perpendicular to those made by the circular blades. A trailing level bar follows the spiral reel. The implement aids in drying the soil surface layer, and, by cutting up residue and even spreading, the implement helps to warm up the soil.