A work vehicle comprising a frame supported by a ground engaging device. A boom assembly is coupled to the frame. A boom cylinder is coupled to the frame and the boom assembly. An attachment coupler is coupled to a distal portion of the boom assembly. At least one tilt cylinder is coupled to the boom assembly and the attachment coupler. A primary attachment is coupled to the attachment coupler. A secondary attachment is coupled to the primary attachment. The secondary attachment comprises a stand configured to move between a standing mode and a stored mode, wherein the stand automatically moves to the standing mode when it is decoupled from the primary attachment.

A traction assist system and method for heavy equipment on an incline or in other situations with poor or limited traction. In particular, a traction assist system for heavy equipment having an accessory such as a blade, the system including: a tether; an adaptation to the accessory allowing the tether to be placed to allow the accessory to function without disrupting the tether, such as through-holes in the blade; and an attachment point on the heavy equipment for attaching the tether to the heavy equipment. The adaptation will depend on the particular accessory involved but may generally be an adaptation allowing the tether to pass through the accessory.

A bucket claw system and method of use wherein the bucket claw system comprises a bucket, either wedge shaped or flat bottomed, that is attached to a piece of heavy equipment such as a loader or skid-steer, wherein the bucket further comprises a plurality of teeth on the outside of the bucket, on the back portion of the bucket, in the area of the transition from the bottom portion of the bucket and the back portion. The bucket claw system can be used by rotating the front edge of the bucket up, exposing the plurality of teeth to the ground, and then moving the plurality of teeth along the ground in order to clear an area of scrap limbs, brush, vines, grass, roots, and undergrowth.

A digging attachment undercarriage assembly includes two cross members, a pair of mounting bracket hooks, four stabilizing receivers with two common ratchet straps, a left and a right perpendicular beam and a receiver box mounted on a perpendicular horizontal plane on the underside midpoint on both cross members. This invention attaches as an undercarriage on a front load bucket with a receiver box capable of interchanging various digging and other construction tools.

There is provided a construction machine capable of performing hanging work according to the intention of an operator. A hydraulic excavator 1 includes: an operating lever 420 for performing a turning operation; the cameras 61, 62, 63 for detecting any obstacle; and a controller 8 for controlling the operations of a vehicle body and a front working device 5. In the hydraulic excavator 1, in a case where the obstacle is detected by any of the cameras 61, 62, 63, the controller 8 performs an operation limiting process. The hydraulic excavator 1 further includes a hook 53A, a mode selector switch 64 for switching the operation to a hanging work mode. In a case where the obstacle is detected by any of the cameras 61, 62, 63, the controller 8 disables the operation limiting process and controls the operation of the vehicle body or the front working device 5 according to the manipulated variable of the operating lever 420.

A working machine including front and rear wheels or a pair of endless tracks supporting a body. A first working arm with a first implement mount is connected to the body. An apparatus with a collector having a first opening and a sweeper trailing the collector is mounted to the first implement mount. A second implement mount connected to the body, and a milling device is mounted to the second implement mount. The sweeper is configured and arranged to move surface material broken up by the milling device into the collector via the first opening.

A traction assist system and method for heavy equipment on an incline or in other situations with poor or limited traction. In particular, a traction assist system for heavy equipment having an accessory such as a blade, the system including: a tether; an adaptation to the accessory allowing the tether to be placed to allow the accessory to function without disrupting the tether, such as through-holes in the blade; and an attachment point on the heavy equipment for attaching the tether to the heavy equipment. The adaptation will depend on the particular accessory involved but may generally be an adaptation allowing the tether to pass through the accessory.

The present invention is directed to a new and improved asphalt cutter attachment for cutting asphalt surface of a roadway or the like, for example, for facilitating cutting an edge of a roadway or driveway for repairing and installing new asphalt. The attachment includes an elongated baseplate having a top and bottom surface, a plurality of angularly disposed cutting teeth positioned along said bottom surface, and an engagement plate including an engagement channel for receiving the lower edge of an earth moving bucket.

Powered machine accessories and associated methods are described. According to one aspect, a powered machine accessory includes an attachment apparatus configured to attach the powered machine accessory to a powered lift apparatus of a powered machine, and a support apparatus coupled with the attachment apparatus, and wherein the support apparatus is configurable into a plurality of different configurations at a plurality of different moments in time to retain a plurality of different articles upon the support apparatus at the different moments in time while the different articles are moved by the powered lift apparatus of the powered machine.

A drag bar for attachment to forks of a tractor for ground levelling includes a frame with two parallel fork ports and two transverse members one of which is a plate having ground scraping elements for breaking the surface of the ground and the other has a leveling surface for compressing and levelling the ground surface. The plate carries front and rear alternately offset rows of the elements and has front and rear edges shaped in a wave pattern. The transverse member further carries a pivotal drag plate with a bottom edge at a height above a lowermost tip of the ground scraping elements. Each of the fork ports includes an upper receptacle for receiving a fork of a tractor and a lower upwardly inclined receptacle for receiving a fork of a skid steer loader. The frame can be divided into separate sections for grading traffic wheel strips of a gravel road.