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A SOIL WORKING AND VEGETATION REMOVING TOOL COMPRISING, ELONGATED SHANK MEANS HAVING A CROSS-SECTIONAL CONFIGURATION ADAPTED TO ENCLOSE A VERTICAL GROWTH OF VEGATATION IN OFFSET RELATION TO A LONGITUDINAL AXIS BETWEEN UPPER AND LOWER ENDS OF THE SHANK MEANS, FORK MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID LOWER END OF SAID SHANK MEANS TERMINATING IN A CIRCULAR CUTTING PLANE FOR TWISTING SAID GROWTH OF VEGETATION IN RESPONSE TO ROTATION OF THE SHANK MEANS ABOUT SAID LONGITUDINAL AXIS, CORING PIVOT MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID LOWER END OF THE SHANK MEANS AND PROJECTING BELOW THE CIRCULAR CUTTING PLANE FOR PENETRATION OF THE EARTH, CRANK MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID UPPER END OF THE SHANK MEANS FOR IMPARTING ROTATION THERETO ABOUT THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS FIXEDLY ESTABLISHED IN THE EARTH BY SAID CORING PIVOT MEANS, EXPANDER BLADE MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID LOWER END OF THE SHANK MEANS AND EXTENDING LATERALLY THEREFROM AT AN ANGLE TO THE FORK MEANS TO FORM A SAW CUTTING EDGE THEREWITH IN SAID CIRCULAR CUTTING PLANE, AND MEANS FOR MOUNTING THE EXPANDER BLADE MEANS ON THE SHANK MEANS FOR SELECTIVE POSITIONING THEREOF IN LONGITUDINALLY SPACED RELATION TO THE CIRCULAR CUTTING PLANE AND ADJUSTABLY SPACED RELATION TO THE FORK MEANS WITHIN THE CIRCULAR CUTTING PLANE, SAID PIVOT MEANS COMPRISING AN ELONGATED MEMBER WHICH IS SUBSTANTIALLY TRINAGULAR IN CROSS SECTION TO FORM LONGITUDINAL FOLDING EDGES FOR TIGHTLY WRAPPING THE VEGETATION THEREABOUT, SAID ELONGATED MEMBER TAPERING TOWARD AN EARTH PIERCING END AWAY FROM THE SHANK MENAS FOR SLIDABLE REMOVAL OF VEGETATTION AND EARTH BETWEEN THE PIVOT MEANS AND THE FORK MEANS, SAID FORK MEANS INCLUDING, A PAIR OF CALW BLADES RADIALLY EXTENDING FROM SAID LONGITUDINAL AXIS IN SPACED RELATION TO SAID PIVOT MEANS, EACH OF SAID CLAW BLADES HAVING OPPOSITELY FACING BEVELED EDGE PORTIONS EXTENDING VERTICALLY IN CONFRONTING SPACED RELATION TO THE PIVOT MEANS FOR CUTTING EARTH AND WRAPPING SAID VEGATATION ABOUT THE PIVOT MEANS IN RESPONSE TO ROTATION OF THE SHANK MEANS IN ONE DIRECTION, AND DOWAWARDLY EXTENDING TEETH FORMED ON SAID BEVELED EDGE PORTIONS FOR ENGAGING SAID VEGETATION TO PREVENT UNWINDING THEREOF.