Archive through January 15, 2006

[kmcconaughey]

....and that.

 

[jegstad]

This was on my daily calender tearoff.

The patent was filed by Greg Lafferty from Plymouth, IN.

Kraig - Do you have a pict? I downloaded the patent drawings but they don't do it justice.

JimE

 

[bmcmeen]

Jim E. -

2003??? You mean some backyard tinkerer thought that highly of themselves that they went and put a patent on it? UFB...

 

[kmcconaughey]

Jim E., sorry no picture. I see that they refer to the tractor as a Club Cadet.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Bryan, Welcome back!!!

 

[jegstad]

Kraig,

The patent has it spelled right. I am emailing the text in a word file and the drawings in jpgs. The file below is an overall view.

 

[jegstad]

Well that didn't play. I'll try again

 

[kmcconaughey]

I'll give it a try...

 

[kmcconaughey]

Hmmm, test picture post.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Hmmm, even though the file size is shown as only 22kb it is more like 800kb. Sooooo I resized it and saved it, so here goes a second try.

 

[bmcmeen]

Kraig -

Thanks...

RE: the picnic table - what was that Styx song?

<font size="-2">...tick tick ticking away...</font>

 

[jgeorg]

That would be do-able with a hydro, steering wheel and hydro lever sticking up through the top of the table. Away we go!

 

[digger]

Oh and we have color!

and another view,

 

[digger]

John G.
They actually used a 129 when they built it.

 

[jegstad]

Kraig,

The file may not have been really a JPG. It had some strange extension when I downloaded it. I changed it (renamed the esxtension) and was able to view it with the XP viewer. I forgot to run a resize which probably then would have done a conversion to true JPG. I was in the middle of a project and drove 2 nails through a water pipe with my nail gun so I have been busy recovering and catching up. A brain f--t day.

JimE

 

[digger]

Jim E.
Those are TIFF (.tif) files that you find here at the patent for the Cub picnic table.
http://tinyurl.com/72vx3

I always spend way to much time when I go to the patent site to snoop around!

 

[kmoe]

Is that a design patent or a engeneering patent?

 

[digger]

Kyle,
Click the link and I think you will find that it's both in one form or the other.

 

[tbordeleau]

Regarding wide-frame/narrow-frame plow blades:

Are the blade/spring assemblies universal, so that, for instance, swapping out a sub-frame will allow you to mount a "N/F" blade to a W/F tractor by bolting up the blade/spring assembly to a W/F subframe?

Seems like in my locale there are millions of NF blades, but no WF ones, and some guy is selling a WF subframe on ebay right now...

 

[tbordeleau]

I'm sure this has been asked before:

What is the origin behind the name Cub Cadet?

Both words seem to evoke something that is not yet mature or experienced enough, something the Cubs certainly are not, in their respective equipment class.

It just seems weird to me. "Cub" I suppose, because it's a smaller version of a full-size (like a cub bear), but why "Cadet", like it's a freshman at a learning institution, or has much yet to learn about the lawn-care game?