Grape vine and fruit tree cultivating equipment - has cultivating or harvesting tool on connecting unit between travelling units on transverse tracks

摘要

The equipment is for cultivating or harvesting from plants in rows, particularly grape vines and fruit trees, using interchangeable tools. It comprises basic units (4,5) travelling along several tracks (2,3) at right angles to the rows of plants (1), with a connecting unit (6) between them. This unit carries one or more processing or harvesting tools (7). The unit can be equipped with a travelling crab (10) from which the tool is suspended, and which is coupled to a drive mechanism (11). There can be a rotary drive on the crab for each tool.