Patent ID: 7559161

Claim:
Apparatus for working the soil, comprising: a supporting device, a soil working device for removing soil from a primary trench, at least one supporting cable reeved on the soil working device and connected to the supporting device for introducing the soil working device into the primary trench, at least one return pulley located on the soil working device, wherein the soil working device is hung in the at least one supporting cable via the at least one return pulley, holding means for suspending the soil working device, for introducing part of the tensile force of the soil working device into the primary trench at least during raising of the soil working device, and for subdividing with the supporting device the tensile force of the soil working device, while resting on a ground surface outside the primary trench, wherein the at least one supporting cable is terminally connected to the holding means, and supporting means for carrying the holding means and raising the holding means together therewith when the soil working device is raised from the ground and for leaving the holding means resting on the ground surface outside the primary trench when the soil working device is introduced into the primary trench.