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One thing I always look for on a contact page is a mailing address. There are so many scammers on the internet, I like to know what part of the world I'm dealing with. No, it doesn't take me long to figure out Fayetteville, AR from your phone numbers. But, just a thought - give us an address to go by. Lots of legal stuff still depends on actual addresses - the lack of one is kind of an oversite.
Your device is kinda cool. Pretty simple really - obviously it takes alittle tinkering to make it 'easy' & sized right but there really is no secret to it - simple hydraulic loop with a valve.
It has almost no relation to an actual powered hydraulic top link, and that is where you went wrong in the begining - didn't read some of the middle messages. Think you confuse a lot of people when you try to compare it to a powered hyd top link.
It's just a replacement for the $30 manual screw top link we can all buy at the supply stores.
It is a lot easier to adjust the top link for hook-ups and during use. _That_ is what it is good at.
Hopefully that ease is worth $175 or so extra to enough people to make you some sales.
Trying to compare it to a hydraulic top link with hoses will _terribly_ confuse people, and you have the issues you have here in this thread. Your device has _nothing_ to do with a regular, powered, hyd operated top link.
Yours is very, very simple - it replaces a regular screw-type top link. It uses gravity to move the hyd cylinder fore or aft, and then you lock it in place. It is not at all in any way a hydraulic top link as most of us are familiar with. It is just a basic simple top link, with a needle valve for adjustment.
One of the features you list is something that would scare me off from buying it - the air cushion. I typically use pretty perfect control of the top link - field cultivating row crops 2 extra turns of the top link will mean the back shovels are sticking in the air.... I would often not like that 3/4 inch of slop in the top link, it would be a bad thing. For some operations, I understand your claims that it's a nice shock absorber. But - a lot of times, I'd not want that slop.
All in all, it's a cool idea. I can see value in it - it does something differently.
Just don't over-sell it as a hydraulic top link. It is not! It's just an easier/ faster to adjust top link than the old screw type.
--->Paul
Your device is kinda cool. Pretty simple really - obviously it takes alittle tinkering to make it 'easy' & sized right but there really is no secret to it - simple hydraulic loop with a valve.
It has almost no relation to an actual powered hydraulic top link, and that is where you went wrong in the begining - didn't read some of the middle messages. Think you confuse a lot of people when you try to compare it to a powered hyd top link.
It's just a replacement for the $30 manual screw top link we can all buy at the supply stores.
It is a lot easier to adjust the top link for hook-ups and during use. _That_ is what it is good at.
Hopefully that ease is worth $175 or so extra to enough people to make you some sales.
Trying to compare it to a hydraulic top link with hoses will _terribly_ confuse people, and you have the issues you have here in this thread. Your device has _nothing_ to do with a regular, powered, hyd operated top link.
Yours is very, very simple - it replaces a regular screw-type top link. It uses gravity to move the hyd cylinder fore or aft, and then you lock it in place. It is not at all in any way a hydraulic top link as most of us are familiar with. It is just a basic simple top link, with a needle valve for adjustment.
One of the features you list is something that would scare me off from buying it - the air cushion. I typically use pretty perfect control of the top link - field cultivating row crops 2 extra turns of the top link will mean the back shovels are sticking in the air.... I would often not like that 3/4 inch of slop in the top link, it would be a bad thing. For some operations, I understand your claims that it's a nice shock absorber. But - a lot of times, I'd not want that slop.
All in all, it's a cool idea. I can see value in it - it does something differently.
Just don't over-sell it as a hydraulic top link. It is not! It's just an easier/ faster to adjust top link than the old screw type.
--->Paul