I might such as you to recall the early 2000s. For RideApart’s youthful demographics, it was a time the place dishevelled pants, chain wallets, and frosted suggestions had been in—for some purpose, similar to immediately—and the world revolved across the Discovery Channel.
Between Shark Week, Mythbusters, American Chopper, and Monster Storage, the world tuned into the channel’s breadth of “actuality” choices. However it was the latter I might such as you to image now, as in accordance with a lately filed patent completed up by UTV-maker Polaris, the model’s engineers paid shut consideration to 1 episode particularly.
See, one of many challenges of Monster Storage was to show a daily outdated convertible Fox Physique Mustang right into a lawnmower. One that would, theoretically, journey your garden at prime pace and nonetheless slice and cube your grass. It did not actually work, however Polaris must’ve seen it as a challenge, because the model designed a front-attaching mowing rig that’d hook as much as your UTVs and pace alongside, slicing grass and brushy areas.
Consider all of the white-tail deer trails you might lower and brush you might do away with!
Picture by: US Patent and Trademark Workplace
Picture by: US Patent and Trademark Workplace
Picture by: US Patent and Trademark Workplace
Picture by: US Patent and Trademark Workplace
In accordance with the patent’s description, the design is of a modular entrance hitch system that can be utilized with electrically powered equipment, i.e. a brush mower. The patent states, “Embodiments of the current disclosure deal with lots of the shortcomings of recognized hitch and implement programs by offering handy, modular hitch and implement gadgets and programs for powersports automobiles.”
The hitch system itself attaches to a Polaris Ranger UTV within the patent drawings, and connects to a three-blade mower deck, the sort you employ to clear brambles, brush, and different small-to-medium-sized vegetation on farms and in woods. Likewise, the drawings present a pivotable system, permitting drivers to angle the mower, in addition to carry it utterly off the bottom for simpler servicing. The entire thing is managed by way of a hand-held controller that appears vaguely like your normal winch controller.
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But, whereas the patent itself issues the mowing attachment, throughout the description, it additionally mentions how this attachment system and electrical connectors, could possibly be used for different equipment, stating, “The hitch can be simply and detachably related to varied implements, equivalent to snow blowers, plows, rotary brooms, and so forth.” So yeah, it is also used for future equipment equivalent to a UTV-controlled snow blower, which might be superior. Not less than, talking as somebody who sees as a lot snow as I do in Utah.
As for after we’ll see this attachment in dealerships, that is unknown. The patent would not state precisely when it will drop, if ever, however given the truth that increasingly more individuals are utilizing their UTVs as multi-purpose machines, thereby decreasing their general spend on a number of machines, we might see this sooner moderately than later. Particularly since Polaris wants all the help it can get.
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