Poultry house cleaner apparatus

摘要

Mobile poultry house cleaner apparatus for scraping poultry manure and droppings from elongated parallel floor level receiving pits extending along parallel transversely spaced paths over the length of a poultry house and disposed below rows of overhead poultry cages, wherein floor lanes extend the length of the poultry house between and outwardly of the pits. The apparatus has a transversely elongated main frame transversely spanning substantially the width of the poultry house, pairs of wheels rotatably supported in depending relation from the main frame to track on the outboard floor lanes and an intervening floor lane, a driver's seat and an engine and controls for the engine adjacent the seat surmounted on the main frame, a twin output gear box and shafts powered by the engine for driving a chain sprocket at the opposite ends of the main frame about which a pair of traction chains are trained and anchored to the floor to track along the chains and concurrently drive the opposite ends of the main frame. A plurality of scraper blade assemblies spaced widthwise along the main frame respectively aligned with and extending into the receiving pits are carried by the the main frame to be drawn along respective receiving pits upon movement of the main frame along the length of the poultry house, and remote controlled lift mechanisms are provided for raising the scraper blade assemblies out of contact with the bottom and sides of the associated pits and lowering the same into contact therewith.