STUCK!!!

[DaryleD]

Dirt, I could possibly be interested in one. It's hard to say without seing it. I would suggest, since your doing a market search here, that maybe you might find a dual use for this item; that way, people that don't need the main feature, might need it for a secondary purpose. Like a winch can skid logs, get you unstuck, tighten a fenceline etc. Tightening a fence might be strechin' it though
Daryle

 

[dirtworksequip]

DaryleD, I have sort of been trying to think of other applications. To use it for another application I would have to design another piece that would work in conjuction with what I'm working on now. It could be do though.

daTeacha, No you would not have to remove ANY implements including a MMM.

I appreaciate everyones input. I didn't have time to talk to my fabrication friend this past weekend because of the weather, but should be getting in contact with him soon.

Sincerely,
Dirt

 

[therebarely]

Do it all the time! 2 small chains and a 4x4 is all you need. Attach them to the rear tire/wheel and it comes out every time!

 

[slowzuki]

Remember a patent is only as good as the lawyer you hire to defend it. If 10 people start making a copy and you can't afford to defend your patent, you have given it up legally.

Remember this as really simple ideas or items are hard to defend unless you stand to make a pile of money on them.

And no, I wouldn't buy it, I've got an 8000 lb electric winch, a 9000 lb hydraulic winch, a 10,000 lb pto logging winch, lots of chain, and a neighbour with a tractor.

 

[BTDT]

Follow through on it. About 20 years ago I built a working model out of cardboard, pencils and rubber bands of a billboard that rotated and showed 3 different ads within about 30 to 45 seconds. Never followed through and now I see them everywhere.

 

[john_bud]

United States Patent and Trademark Office Home Page

Find the tab for Patents, the the sub-tab for Search.

jb

 

[BTDT]

So what became of your idea/invention? Can you tell us more about it yet?

 

[zzvyb6]

I've been stuck a few times. Once in deep mud, the other when I broke thru the ice on my pond making an ice rink.

Since you don't plan on it, it must be attachable to the tractor after the fact, or be small and out of the way to keep it from interfering with other devices and attachments. Otherwise, it has to be stabbed into the ground or to a tree that's 500 yards away. Don't want to turn it over while pulling and the tractor may not be runable it its under water or on its side.

So. a bar that attaches to the lower link area, powered by a 12v battery operated winch deal that has a boat anchor dirt stabber thing with a few pulleys would interest me. My tractor is about 6,000 lbs so plan ahead. Don't mind if it takes all night and the machine only moves a foot a minute. Just get me out. Maybe have to pull me 10 yards.

Hows that?

 

[D7E]

How many of you TBN'ers would be willing to pay for a device that you could attach to your tractor and use it to unstick your stuck tractor using the power of your tractor for about $200.00?

Sincerely,
Dirt

Hmmmm..,Who makes this ...Leggo or meccano ..sounds good ?

 

[dirtworksequip]

Well, I ended up working 6 days a week 10 to 12 hoursa day with a 1 hour drive each way all Summer into this Fall and really didn't have time to do anything. I did see somewhere that at one time there was a similar device used on Army Jeeps in the second World War. I guess now that I have some free time I need to start tinkering with the idea again.

Thanks for the interest and replies. Sincerely, Dirt

 

[AndyMA]

Well, I ended up working 6 days a week 10 to 12 hoursa day with a 1 hour drive each way all Summer into this Fall and really didn't have time to do anything. I did see somewhere that at one time there was a similar device used on Army Jeeps in the second World War. I guess now that I have some free time I need to start tinkering with the idea again.

Thanks for the interest and replies. Sincerely, Dirt

"similar device used on Army Jeeps" probably can't get a concept patent. Could probably get a design patent-my opinion of design patents- not worth the paper they are written on. BTW Patent office now offers a new type of patent application I think it is called a provisional patent for something I believe under $100. Will mark your place in line and hold your idea. Patents typically cost over $10,000 to get and take several years. I have one patent I obtained on my own. The ones I got while a company paid for them were much easier on my pocket. Many companies no longer patent their ideas since they are too easy to bypass and the cost of enforcement can be megabucks.

If it were my idea, I would just take it and rush it to market. being the market leader many times is better than a patent.

Andy

 

[LBrown59]

AnyBody got unStuck with this gadget yet?

 

[LBrown59]

So what became of your idea/invention? Can you tell us more about it yet?

I thot you was sposed to start a new thread stead of postin on an old one.

 

[BTDT]

I thot you was sposed to start a new thread stead of postin on an old one.

I guess it depends on your definition of old, this one is only about 6mo. compared to some that are revived after 6 years.

 

[tater digger]

I've been out on my wife and I's land getting ready for a house pad with my '62 Massey Ferguson 35 and a box blade every weekend for the past few months, got all the topsoil pulled off to the side and ready for some fill clay when we got about 6 inches of rain. Basically I built us a pond where our house goes. Well rather than waste a weekend, I figured I'd try and pop some of the last stubborn roots out of the soft clay. It was'nt long before I was up to the axle and going nowhere. Called it a day and went off to tell the story, and my brother in law who has a few tractors suggested running a chain through the rim and chaining a log to the tire. Dangerous as **** but it worked. First I tried forward and nearly went over backwards. Then I got off and flipped the box blade back for some room and tried it in reverse. Well one log was a little too close inboard and nearly pinned my leg as it bent the footrest up, but once it made it around to the mud again, the tractor gently lifted out of the wheel holes and was sitting level. I changed to a shorter log on that one side and filled the holes some with a shovel. Then I drove out forward, the wheels would spin until the log came around again then I'd go a few feet forward till I was out of the deep stuff. The logs were free and I put em back on the firewood pile when I was through.

 

[john_bud]

2x4 and a ratchet strap are better than chain and a log!

At least the 2x will normally clear everything!

jb

 

[GordonR]

A windlass and a couple of hundred feet of 1/2 inch sampson braid will pull anything out of the mud or clay/sand you want to get into
a windlass is not limited by spool capacity or much of anything else other than driving torque.
have raised antennas on towers 8/900 feet using a 1k spool of line and an electric windlass.

Don

 

[Mith]

Surely all you need is a bigger tractor

 

[Renze]

YouTube - Fordson tractor stuck in the mud

like this ?

If the log operation is dangerous, try it in reverse: Then the force of the wheel climbing up on the log, will only push the front wheels down instead of up in the sky.

 

[Redbug]

I always carry a couple lengths of chain and a come-a-long on my tractor, now.

However, that is an intriguing device...if it is real. I think there would be a real market for such an animal. Lot's of people have 2 WD tractors without loaders. And they all get stuck sooner or later. We are just thinking of the good old USA. I would say the rest of the world has more non loader/2 WD tractors per farmer than we do. It's all in the advertising.