Sod positioning machine

摘要

An apparatus for a vehicle used for positioning sod strips includes a structure for mounting on the vehicle frame and a pushing plate slidably mounted to the structure. The pushing plate is arranged to be abuttable to an edge of a sod strip. A pair of cylinders are operatively mounted between the structure and the pushing plate to slide the pushing plate away from the structure to laterally shift a sod strip to tighten up seams between adjacent sod strips. A pushing frame provides arms that are slidable into base tubes of a base frame and the cylinders are connected between the arms and the base tubes to slide the pushing frame with respect to the base frame. Further cylinders are employed to pivot the base frame, the pushing frame and the pushing plate between deployed and non-deployed positions.

主权项

1. An apparatus for positioning sod strips, comprising:
a structure for mounting on a vehicle; a pushing plate slidably mounted to the structure, the pushing plate having a flat horizontal surface and a vertical pushing surface arranged to be abuttable to a vertical edge of a newly placed sod strip that has already been placed flat on the ground, the flat horizontal surface arranged on a side of the vertical pushing surface opposite the vertical edge of the newly placed sod strip; and at least one actuator operatively mounted between the structure and the pushing plate to slide the pushing plate in a first direction away from the structure to position the newly placed sod strip to move the newly placed sod strip to more closely fit the newly placed sod strip against an adjacent, previously placed flat sod strip, the actuator further operative to force the pushing plate to compress the newly placed sod strip against the adjacent, previously placed flat sod strip in the first direction across a width of the newly placed sod strip, the flat horizontal surface being slidable along the ground during compression of the newly placed sod strip by the pushing plate.