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A debris and soil shaver for no till farming is disclosed which has a disk-like member which floats up and down as it is pulled across the ground surface. The disk is angled with respect to a predetermined direction of travel of an agricultural apparatus which is adapted to pull the shaver. The disk

A debris and soil shaver for no till farming is disclosed which has a disk-like member which floats up and down as it is pulled across the ground surface. The disk is angled with respect to a predetermined direction of travel of an agricultural apparatus which is adapted to pull the shaver. The disk is rotatably mounted to a first support member about a central transverse disk axis. The first support member is pivotally mounted to a vertical second support member about a pivot axis. The pivot axis and central transverse axis are angled with respect to one another. The second support member is clamped to the agricultural apparatus which pulls the shaver. With such a construction, pivotal movement of the first support member about the pivot axis causes the angle of the disk relative to the ground surface to change. The angle adjusting prevents the disk from engaging too much soil and allows the disk to seek a path of least resistance as it rolls across a planting field. The blade angle is also changeable by raising and lowering the second support member relative to the agricultural apparatus to vary the elevation of the pivot axis above the ground. A plurality of shavers can be mounted to tool bars to cooperatively neatly stack residue between seed rows.

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A debris and soil shaver for mounting to an agricultural apparatus adapted to travel across the ground surface in a predetermined direction, the agricultural apparatus including a frame member, the shaver comprising: a disk-like member having a disk periphery defining a disk plane, and further havin

A debris and soil shaver for mounting to an agricultural apparatus adapted to travel across the ground surface in a predetermined direction, the agricultural apparatus including a frame member, the shaver comprising: a disk-like member having a disk periphery defining a disk plane, and further having a central axis which is transverse with respect to the disk periphery; a first support member, the disk being mounted to the first support member with the central transverse disk axis being arranged at an oblique angle relative to the predetermined direction of agricultural apparatus travel; mounting means for vertically adjustably mounting the first support member to the agricultural apparatus frame member, the mounting means including an operative connection means between the frame member and first support member for allowing downwardly biased substantially free floating elevational movement, up and down, of the disk relative to the frame member as the agricultural apparatus travels across the ground surface, downward elevational movement of the disk relative to the frame member resulting in an increasingly greater angle of the disk plane from vertical; and surface angle adjusting means for varying the angle with which the disk plane engages the ground surface relative to vertical, said surface angle adjusting means comprising the vertical adjustability of the mounting means.