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wroughtn_harv
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This is the prototype. I've got to fine tune it a bit. It's fantastic for cleaning out the eleven by forty inch holes I'm using on this job. But I haven't got the angle of the dangle just right for chopping and cutting yet.
I figured with my background it would be a nightmare trying to adjust to the "backwards" action. By the second hole it was like I'd been doing it this way for years.
There was a part of me that considered being all secrety and applying for a patent because the idea is good and I'd never seen it before. But the experience with the my other patent has left me a little disappointed with that system.
It's a lot more about the game than the score.
I do plan on fine tuning the diggers and then attempting to sell them to professionals. One of the things I'm wanting to do is to have short wood handles. The wood doesn't get as hot as metal does during the summertime. It also doesn't transfer the shock from impact like metal handles do.
I used some buckets off of a pair of diggers that I'd removed the handles for adding pipe ones to some time ago. They're not what I want. They're a little too small as far as capacity goes and the arc shape doesn't accomodate the ability of my diggers to pick up small amounts.
I'm excited about them because they work and I think professionals would appreciate them. And unlike modern thinking I want to have the finished product to be just that. I don't want to have a product with planned improvements as a marketing move.
The product I have in my mind will use the backwards principle with good steel buckets and wood handles. I see two versions. One for normal work with shorter handles and another for the utility work like power and telephone companies do. Those will have longer handles.
Right now I buy and modify a pair of hand diggers every three years or so. I'd like to sell a product that lasts a lot longer than that for the professional.
I figured with my background it would be a nightmare trying to adjust to the "backwards" action. By the second hole it was like I'd been doing it this way for years.
There was a part of me that considered being all secrety and applying for a patent because the idea is good and I'd never seen it before. But the experience with the my other patent has left me a little disappointed with that system.
It's a lot more about the game than the score.
I do plan on fine tuning the diggers and then attempting to sell them to professionals. One of the things I'm wanting to do is to have short wood handles. The wood doesn't get as hot as metal does during the summertime. It also doesn't transfer the shock from impact like metal handles do.
I used some buckets off of a pair of diggers that I'd removed the handles for adding pipe ones to some time ago. They're not what I want. They're a little too small as far as capacity goes and the arc shape doesn't accomodate the ability of my diggers to pick up small amounts.
I'm excited about them because they work and I think professionals would appreciate them. And unlike modern thinking I want to have the finished product to be just that. I don't want to have a product with planned improvements as a marketing move.
The product I have in my mind will use the backwards principle with good steel buckets and wood handles. I see two versions. One for normal work with shorter handles and another for the utility work like power and telephone companies do. Those will have longer handles.
Right now I buy and modify a pair of hand diggers every three years or so. I'd like to sell a product that lasts a lot longer than that for the professional.
