Horizontal auger for skidsteer tractors and the like
AssigneesAllen Wells, David Hansen
InventorAllen Wells
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Abstract
An apparatus is provided that is mountable upon preferably a skidsteer tractor, through a forklift truck or similar wheeled vehicle could be employed. The apparatus can be lowered into a trench on one side of a street or sidewalk and used to bore axially beneath the street or sidewalk to a trench on the other side of the street or sidewalk. Operation of the apparatus, which uses conventional commercial augers is controlled from the hydraulic couplings situated in the skidsteer tractor. The apparatus includes a main housing which includes a means for receiving the accessory shoe of a prime mover for physical attachment thereto; and a motor housing with a motor, hydraulic coupler and bearing disposed therein, which motor housing is pivotally mounted to the main body.
Claims10
An auger device for mounting on a tractor, preferably of the skidsteer type, for drilling generally horizontal holes, which device comprises:
- a. an elongated main housing having a pair of spaced sidewalls, having means attached to said sidewalls for receiving the accessory shoe of a tractor for physical attachment thereto,
- b. a motor housing having a front wall and a top wall, pivotally mounted to said main housing at the bottom end of said, main housing and which motor housing has a motor connected to a pair of hydraulic couplers mounted within said motor housing;
- said hydraulic couplers being accessible for connection to hydraulic lines leading from said tractor, and means for coupling an auger bit to said motor coupled to said hydraulic couplers and extending generally horizontally,
- wherein the means for coupling an auger bit to said motor comprises:
- a bearing mounted to the front wall of said motor housing and connectable thereto from said front wall and a power coupler adapted to receive the shaft of an auger bit, coupled to said bearing, and wherein the main housing includes a pair of spaced side walls and is open in part on the underside thereof, and wherein the pivotal mounting of said motor housing to said main housing comprises:
- at least one upstanding flange on said motor housing extending into the main housing through the opening on the underside thereof, said at least one flange having an opening therein for receipt of a pin, and said at least one flange being retained within said main housing by a pin extending through the side walls of said main housing and said bores.
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