Abstract: The disclosed bootjack apparatus relates to an apparatus to hold or retain at least part of a piece of footwear to facilitate the removal or application of boots or similar footwear from a user's foot. Various embodiments are described, each having a clamping mechanism to hold or retain the footwear and a stabilizing handle by which the user may steady themselves while removing or applying the footwear.

Abstract: Log splitting pincers 20 are mounted on the bucket pivot 17 of a dipperstick 12 of a backhoe 10 in place of a backhoe bucket and are operated by the hydraulic curl actuator 16 of dipperstick 12 for splitting logs. Pincers 20 include a wedge 30 braced and fixed to the boom side of dipperstick 12 and a pusher 40 operated by bucket linkage 15 and 16 in a curl motion toward and away from wedge 30. Pusher 40 has a curved surface confronting wedge 30 for engaging an end of a log to be split and driving the log onto wedge 30. A backhoe operator can maneuver dipperstick 12 and log pincers 20 to orient, lift, and split logs without any manual handling of the logs.

Abstract: An object is releasably attachable to a fastener mounted on a girth strap fastened around an animal so that the object rides securely above the animal's back as the animal runs, and the object is removable from the fastener by means of a lariat or by manual grasping and removing. The fastener on the girth strap is preferably a pair of spring clips, and the object preferably has a holding strap securable in the spring clips, which are oriented to open rearwardly of the animal. The object is preferably shaped as a horned pommel to provide a convenient roping target, and roping the object from off the back of a calf saves wear and tear on horses, calves, and ropers, while realistically simulating actual calf roping.