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I love my horses which has caused me to accumulate far too many and now I find a few things that I would like to see to improve my time with my horses. Below are suggestions for devices, solution, or inventions that may benefit me and others. If I had the time I would work on them myself but as you read the posts you see that we have many very clever dudes among us. If we can tap that resource we may be able to come up with some handy things that can assist us in maintaining and enjoying our horses. Someone might even be able to make a few bucks selling them to the rest of us or at least feel good about performing a public service for us. Matt's foot control is an example of a device made just for us that we all appreciate. I propose that this thread be used to suggest things that will help us in that regard. I have 3 areas that I would like to find solutions for. 1. A vented funnel for filling our hydro transmissions. Some remove a bolt some leave the filter off but what I would like to have is a narrow neck funnel that has some kind of a vent tube that goes down into the transmission case to vent air as the oil goes in. Perhaps a length of thin copper tubing along the side of the funnel bent just right at the bottom and the top would work? 2. A quick change battery holder. The garden tractor batteries they make for our horses, for the most part, appear to be pure crap. I tend to buy the $45 420 Amp batteries since they seem to last a bit longer. With all the horses I have, they don't get used often enough to maintain charge over long periods of time and the batteries do not last. Changing a battery requires undoing and redoing the hold down brackets which is not the worst thing in the world but tends to make us buy more batteries than we need to avoid the inconvenience of using one battery and swapping it among the horses. I would rather use the extra time riding my horses. I do use wing nuts to make it easier to connect and reconnect cables. Therefore, what I would like to see is some kind of a battery fixture that allows a quick change snap in snap out procedure for batteries. I would then be able to just have a few good batteries and snap them in and snap them out as I rotate and use my horses. Maybe a quick connect disconnect for the connections and more convenient battery hold down device? 3. Fixture for our ONAN powered tractors to minimize grass accumulation on those huge volume air, and sometimes grass clippings, suckers. We have discussed the issue a number if times and there have been a number of good solutions proposed and illustrated. I would like to be able to buy something that looks like it was made for the job rather than a Rube Goldberg looking device that may even work well. Perhaps an attachment for the deck rather than the tractor? I have used a piece of card board to deflect the clippings from the left side of the deck from being sucked onto the screen but it is an insult to the beauty of the horse. I would like to find devices that one may even sell on eBay or at the next annual show or at all the shows in between. I just thought I would toss those out and see what other things members would like to see or invent. JackC
