Locking Pliers Helps Unbolt Cultivator Sweeps
If you've ever scraped skin off your fingers trying to remove rusted or corroded bolts on cultivator sweeps, chisel plow points, etc., you'll understand what prompted Gene Klann of Stewartville, Minn., to invent a new kind of "locking pliers".
The "Farmer's Friend" locking pliers work like modified vice grips. One jaw is fitted with a U-shaped "fork" that is placed against the back side of the shovel, around the nut. It leaves enough room to get a socket on the nut. The other jaw has a pointed end that's used to hold the bolt head in the square recess and keep it from coming out.
"It eliminates the need to weld the bolt head, cut off the nut with a torch, or grind off the nut so the bolt can be removed," says Klann. "I got the idea one day while helping a neighbor change the shovels on his field cultivator. He was using an impact wrench and I used my fingers to try to hold a bolt head in. That was a big mistake because I cut my finger bad."
Klann is looking for a manufacturer.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Gene Klann, 2900 Cty. Rd. 6 S.W., Stewartville, Minn. 55976 (ph 507 533-8543).
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Locking Pliers Helps Unbolt Cultivator Sweeps CULTIVATORS Cultivators (58C) 23-5-38 If you've ever scraped skin off your fingers trying to remove rusted or corroded bolts on cultivator sweeps, chisel plow points, etc., you'll understand what prompted Gene Klann of Stewartville, Minn., to invent a new kind of "locking pliers".
The "Farmer's Friend" locking pliers work like modified vice grips. One jaw is fitted with a U-shaped "fork" that is placed against the back side of the shovel, around the nut. It leaves enough room to get a socket on the nut. The other jaw has a pointed end that's used to hold the bolt head in the square recess and keep it from coming out.
"It eliminates the need to weld the bolt head, cut off the nut with a torch, or grind off the nut so the bolt can be removed," says Klann. "I got the idea one day while helping a neighbor change the shovels on his field cultivator. He was using an impact wrench and I used my fingers to try to hold a bolt head in. That was a big mistake because I cut my finger bad."
Klann is looking for a manufacturer.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Gene Klann, 2900 Cty. Rd. 6 S.W., Stewartville, Minn. 55976 (ph 507 533-8543).
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