Kickstand

JimMc · Sep 13, 2002

Messed around today and came up with this. I call it a kickstand, for lack of a better name. Bolts to any of the products I've designed at the lift pin and self-stores with the same pin that locks it in the stand position.

JimMc · Sep 13, 2002

Here's the shot with it in the stored position. Tucked up, nice and neat. So what do you TBNer's think. Should eliminate carrying that concrete block around so you can use your quick hitch. Or picking up the nose of the rake or blade, etc. out of the snow and mud. Suggested retail ?? - be fair now, I have to eat too./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Kodiak · Sep 13, 2002

Jim:

Thats a real nice job you did on your kickstand, aka implement stand. I've added stands to several of my implements, but went with a simpler design. I use a sliding rod (with a foot welded on the bottom) through a pipe sleeve with a hole drilled through it. Then I weld a nut over the hole. Take a 5 or 6" long bolt bend it in an L shape, threaded into the nut for a clamp. Its a cheap alternative that works well and is height adjustable.

tdenny · Sep 13, 2002

Leave it to Kodiak to supply that veteran savvy.

Kodiak · Sep 13, 2002

Jim:

My apolagies I wasn't trying to rain on your parade. Just wanted to point out the height adjustable option is nice to have.

JimMc · Sep 13, 2002

No problem. I've used the same thing, but always had problems with the "free" leg catching on stuff. Also needed to be able to bolt-on with no drilling or welding for retrofits. Suppose you could bring an adjustable bracket off the lift pin, but that changes the pin spacing and most implements are a tight fit for a quick hitch any way.

Kodiak · Sep 13, 2002

Well on that blade I would have attached it back where the rear bolt for the tower attaches to the T frame. But each implement is sort of mount specific. Still I like yours and First Choice's forward thinking ideas.

Gary_in_Indiana · Sep 13, 2002

<font color=blue>"Suggested retail??"</font color=blue>

I just looked in my 2002 Tractor Supply Blue Book catalog and on page 308 I found I can buy a 2,000 pound capacity swivel style farm skid jack with a 10" lift for $21.99. I'm not drawing any conclusions from that as to where yours should be priced. I don't even know if it would do what yours will on your equipment. I just thought it might be something you would want to consider when pricing yours. Your stand certainly looks very nice and I'm sure it's well built. Good luck with it. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Inspector507 · Sep 13, 2002

Jim,
That looks great as a bolt on option.

Kodiak,
I was thinking along the same lines as you did. Installed in the center on the front of the horizontal support. When the leg is slid up, the top portion would not hit much there, only have 12-16" sticking up. Nothing up there to interfere except the top link. I was thinking a hitch pin( with several holes drilled in the pipe/rod ) instead of a nut welded on and bolt type set screw thingie.
Either way I like both ideas guys.

Jerry

bubenberg · Sep 13, 2002

where do i sent the royalties to? for better then a year i was procrastination to got to walmart to get trailer foldaway trailer stands at $39.00 a piece for my kubota attachments which all have a freedom hitch. what good is a hitch if you have to lift it up on a block, than you back up and the block falls down ... you must know that story. Great Invention ...THANKS

bubenberg · Sep 13, 2002

where do i sent the royalties to? for better then a year i was procrastination to got to walmart to get trailer foldaway trailer stands at $39.00 a piece for my kubota attachments which all have a freedom hitch. what good is a hitch if you have to lift it up on a block, than you back up and the block falls down ... you must know that story. Great Invention ...THANKS

Anonymous Poster · Sep 14, 2002

Can't say off the top of my head what you'd want to retail at, but I can tell you a fellow here was selling 4 cheap casters and about 10 feet of angle iron for $129.95 a few years back for people to use to store their pickup truck snow plows. He sold a couple thousand before the Chinese started selling them thru Northern Hydraulics.
The trick would be to sell enough in a year or so before the Chinese replace you as the manufacturer. For less than $100- you can file a disclosure statement with the patent office, and that will discourage legitimate manufacturers from swiping your idea for 7 years.

Inspector507 · Sep 16, 2002

Found this in my junk pile today......it's an adjustable support for a shelf/facade for retail shelving. I can use a square U-bolt around the horizontal support for the the back blade. I'll need to weld a foot on it and drill holes for a hitch pin or pins to keep it at the desired location. I can use the place that the set screw in the picture is at now. The longer leg slides up in the the other square tube. Lower the support for removal from the tractor, and raise the leg when attached to the tractor.

JFarms · Sep 19, 2002

Jim, your's look nice. I saw a stand by Freedom Hitch a while back that looks like Kodiak's to me. They probably make it adjustable since it's not custom made for one implement.

http://www.freedomhitch.com/index2.html
This link is a FH page, then you have to click on Models, Category I, Accessories and finally Adjustable Leg Stand. I think I was quoted $29 for it but never got it. Still using a wood tripod I built.

Inspector507 · Sep 19, 2002

Take a look at what it looked like <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.tractorbynet.com/forumfiles/5-194748-P9160023.JPG>Before</A> and look at it now. I welded a foot on it. Attached it with a 3'square U bolt. This is in the down position. The picture of it slid up in the 'travel' position didn't come out.

Inspector507 · Sep 19, 2002

Although I do like Jim's idea better. It mounts at one of the lift pins, so it should fit a lot of attachments. but if you look at my Wallace blade, it wouldn't work too good I don't think.