System and methods for a universal, mobile backhoe system
AssigneeWorkhorse Atv, LLC
InventorPaul Sidwell
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Abstract
A universal, mobile, backhoe system integrated with a vehicle and related methods are disclosed. An example embodiment includes: a boom; an arm coupled to the boom; an implement coupled to the arm; a swing mount coupled to the boom, the swing mount including a pivot point; a truck mount removably coupled to the swing mount; stabilizer legs coupled to the truck mount, the truck mount further including a mounting bracket removably coupled thereto and configured to be removably attached to a hitch receiver of a vehicle, the truck mount further including mounting shafts removably coupled thereto and configured to be removably attached to at least two points of a bed of the truck.
Claims18
A universal, mobile, backhoe system integrated with a vehicle, the backhoe system comprising:
- a boom;
- an arm coupled to the boom;
- an implement coupled to the arm;
- a swing mount coupled to the boom, the swing mount including a pivot point;
- a truck mount removably coupled to the swing mount;
- stabilizer legs coupled to the truck mount, the truck mount further including a mounting bracket removably coupled thereto and configured to be removably attached to a hitch receiver of a vehicle, the truck mount further including mounting shafts removably coupled thereto and removably attached to at least two points at existing holes in side walls of the vehicle;
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- wall hole brackets inserted into the holes in the side walls of the vehicle, the mounting shafts being removably coupled to the wall hole brackets.
A method comprising:
- coupling a boom to an arm;
- coupling an implement to the arm;
- coupling a swing mount to the boom, the swing mount including a pivot point;
- removably coupling a truck mount to the swing mount;
- coupling stabilizer legs to the truck mount;
- removably coupling a mounting bracket to the truck mount;
- removably coupling the mounting bracket to a hitch receiver of a vehicle;
- removably coupling mounting shafts to the truck mount;
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- removably coupling the mounting shafts to at least two points at existing holes in side walls of the vehicle and
- inserting wall hole brackets into the holes in the side walls of the vehicle, and removably coupling the mounting shafts to the wall hole brackets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.