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10-11-2000, 06:05

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Finishing Mower Creates Furrows

Here's an idea. Pretty complicated though. It's sort of the reverse of cross-wind landing gears on light airplanes. If the casters had relatively long shafts that extended through the shaft housings and lugs near the top, then the wheels would drop on the shafts when there is no weight on them. The tops of the shaft housings could be fabricated with a ramp for the lugs that centred the wheels when the wheels dropped into the ramps. When weight is back on the wheels, the lugs are pushed off the ramps, and the lugs are released. I'd be surprised if some mowers aren't designed like this.

I thought about small coil springs on the shafts, but springs probably would just end up wound around the shafts.

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10-13-2000, 07:32

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Hi Murf. Like the 'Great ideas o Mice n Men,' mine are sometimes more like the mice. I don't think I really considered it realistic to do the fabrication I had in mind. It was sort of like a shaft with a lug, or cross piece, near the top, and a cap, sort of like a funnel with a twist, on top of the shaft housing. When weight is on a wheel the shaft is up in the housing, and the funnel width is wider than the lug, and the shaft could rotate. When the weight is off the wheel, it drops into a narrower part of the housing, and a twist centres the wheel. I'm not sure I've got the twist thing completely thought through, but something along those lines should work. On the other hand, from other responses, it seems like a spring will work, so why worry. However, I still can't figure out why a spring wouldn't just get wound around the shaft during tight maneuvering, unless the mover was raised.

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