A winch system for tightening and tensioning barrier cables for cable barrier systems includes a fairlead vertically movable with respect to the winch assembly. The winch system is connected to a base frame that can be attached to a vehicle for moving and for providing power to the winch and movement of the fairlead. The vertically movable fairlead allows each barrier cable to be positioned and tensioned while supported by the post of the cable barrier system to avoid damage to the posts and negatively impacting the operational strength of the cable barrier system.
B65H 63/00 - Warning or safety devices for use when unwinding, paying-out, forwarding, winding, coiling, or depositing filamentary material, e.g. automatic fault detectors or stop-motions
E01F 15/06 - Continuous barriers extending along roads or between traffic lanes essentially made of cables, nettings or the like
A grapple assembly includes a grapple with two opposing arms connected to a boom arm of an excavator for engaging an attachment plate connected to an excavator attachment, such as a bucket. The attachment plate includes two outwardly extending plates creating two receivers for engaging the grapple arms. The attachment plate allows an operator of the excavator to use the grapple to handle large items, and to use the grapple to grab the attachment plate connected to a bucket to use the bucket to handle small items without having to disconnect the grapple from the boom arm and attach the bucket to the boom arm.
E02F 3/96 - DredgersSoil-shifting machines mechanically-driven with arrangements for alternate use of different digging elements
B66C 3/20 - Load-engaging elements or devices attached to lifting or lowering gear of cranes or adapted for connection therewith and intended primarily for transmitting lifting forces to loose materialsGrabs mounted on, or guided by, jibs
A modular tilt rotate system includes a mounting formation hole arrangement permitting attachments used with earth and material working equipment to be easily attached to the tilt rotate system. The system has a tilt coupler assembly providing side-to-side movement of the attachment at the end of a boom arm, and a pivot assembly providing 360 degree rotation of the attachment at the end of the boom arm. A hydraulic cylinder actuates the tilt coupler assembly, and a hydraulically actuated rotator gear assembly provides rotation. Providing a common mounting formation hole arrangement connecting the attachment to the modular tilt rotate system provides modularity with various forms of attachments used with the system.
E02F 3/30 - DredgersSoil-shifting machines mechanically-driven with digging tools mounted on a dipper- or bucket-arm, e.g. dippers, buckets with a dipper-arm pivoted on a cantilever beam
E02F 3/42 - Drives for dippers, buckets, dipper-arms or bucket-arms
