Abstract: An outdoor power equipment unit, such as a mower, includes a foot platform for supporting a standing operator who operates the unit while standing atop the foot platform. The foot platform can be pivoted upwardly from a substantially horizontal orientation into a substantially vertical, folded up orientation against the rear of the traction vehicle. A thigh pad engages against the thighs of the operator and is pivotally linked to the foot platform to pivot on the traction vehicle with the pivotal motion of the foot platform. When the foot platform is horizontal, the thigh pad is pivoted to be angled downwardly and rearwardly relative to the rear of the traction vehicle. When the foot platform is folded up, the thigh pad is pivoted inwardly relative to the rear of the traction vehicle to be sandwiched between the rear of the traction vehicle and the folded up foot platform.

Abstract: A self-propelled vehicle comprises a frame and a platform pivotally mountable to a rear portion of the vehicle frame. The platform is pivotally movable between a first position in which the platform extends generally horizontally from the rear portion of the frame to support a rider during operation of the vehicle, and a second position in which the platform is removably secured in a generally upright position-adjacent the rear portion of the frame to enable walk-behind operation of the vehicle.

Abstract: A step device in a miniature shovel car includes a vehicle body, a working boom mounted to a front portion of the vehicle body, a boom cylinder for vertically pivotably operating the boom, a swing cylinder for horizontally pivotably operating the boom, and an engine and a transmission case both mounted on a rear portion of the vehicle body. The step device includes a recess formed at a laterally central portion of a lower surface of the transmission case and extending in a longitudinal direction of the transmission case, a step arm pivotably mounted at its front end to a front portion of the recess, and a step mounted to a rear end of the step arm. The step arm is adapted to be raised and lowered, and the step arm is retracted into the recess when raised.