Abstract: A system may include a steering aid device configured to be mounted on a steering wheel of a vehicle having a rim member to aid manipulation of the steering wheel. The aid device may have a hand engagement surface for being engaged by a hand of an operator of the vehicle. The hand engagement surface may have a primary section being substantially planar. The aid device may define a passage for receiving a portion of the steering wheel, and the passage may extend along a passage axis.

Abstract: A convertible hitch apparatus may include a mount structure for mounting on a hitch receiver tube and an upper hitch structure mounted on the mount structure. The upper hitch structure may have a deployed condition and an inactive condition, with an upper ball mount being movable between a deployed position corresponding to the deployed condition and a storage position corresponding to the inactive condition. The hitch apparatus may also include a lower hitch structure mounted on the mount structure at a position below the upper hitch structure, and a ball hitch assembly removably mountable on at least one of the ball mounts.

Abstract: A convertible hitch apparatus may be removably mountable on a hitch receiver tube and include a mount tube assembly being at least partially insertable into the receiver tube for mounting on the hitch receiver tube, with the mount tube assembly defining a retraction channel and an upper hitch aperture. The apparatus may also include a lower mount support movably mounted on the retraction channel of the mount tube assembly to move between a retracted position and an extended position with respect to the mount tube assembly. The lower mount support may define a lower hitch aperture which may be below and in substantially vertical alignment with the upper hitch aperture when the lower mount support is in the retracted position. The lower hitch aperture may be moved out of vertical alignment with the upper hitch aperture when the lower mount support is in the retracted position.

Abstract: A system comprising an air seeder assembly has a base mount with base ears including a first pair of base bores and defining a channel therebetween with a channel width. The assembly comprising a seed boot removably mountable on the base mount, and having a pair of boot ears with a first pair of boot bores. A seed boot stabilizer is mountable on the seed boot and the base mount and positionable in the channel between the seed boot and the base mount. The boot stabilizer has a primary portion with a first stabilizer bore alignable with the first pair of base bores in the base ears. A fastener structure may extending through the pair of base bores of the base ears, the pair of boot bores of the boot ears and the stabilizer bore to fasten the stabilizer to the seed boot and the base mount.

Abstract: A seed firmer for use on a seed boot having a guide plate with a rear edge may include an elongated main portion having a mount end for mounting to the boot and a free end extending away from the boot. The main portion may have broad faces and narrow sides extending between the broad faces. The firmer may have a guide portion positioned at a medial location on the guide portion between the ends. The guide portion may have a thin, planar character that protrudes from the main portion in a plane that is oriented generally perpendicular to a plane of one broad face. The guide portion may have a peripheral edge with a substantially linear section and an arcuate section, and the substantially linear section may be positionable adjacent to the guide plate when the main portion is mounted on the boot.

Abstract: A gauge wheel including a center portion extending outwardly from the center of the wheel, and a rim portion positioned at an outer circumference of the wheel and having an inner surface and an outer surface at the outer side of the wheel with the rim portion having an outer circumferential surface extending between the inner surface and the outer surface of the wheel and extending along the outer circumference of the wheel. The wheel including a lip portion for contacting the disk, with the lip portion being on the inner side of the gauge wheel and extending from the inner surface of the rim portion, the lip portion tapering to a thin edge away from the inner surface. A plurality of lugs may be formed on the outer circumferential surface with the lugs being separated by valleys to cause the ground surface to rotate the wheel.

Abstract: In an air seeder assembly having a base mount member with a at least one base ear with a base bore, and a seed boot with at least one boot ear with a boot bore, a fastening assembly mounting the seed boot to the base mount member is disclosed. The fastening assembly comprises a fastener structure fastening the seed boot to the base mount member by extending through the base bore and the boot bore. The fastening assembly includes a fastener interface device inserted into at least one of the bores. The interface device comprises a substantially tubular insertion portion inserted into the at least one bore and a flange portion connected to the insertion portion, and extends radially outwardly from the insertion portion.

Abstract: In an air seeder assembly having a base mount member with a at least one base ear with a base bore, and a seed boot with at least one boot ear with a boot bore, a fastening assembly mounting the seed boot to the base mount member is disclosed. The fastening assembly comprises a fastener structure fastening the seed boot to the base mount member by extending through the base bore and the boot bore. The fastening assembly includes a fastener interface device inserted into at least one of the bores. The interface device comprises a substantially tubular insertion portion inserted into the at least one bore and a flange portion connected to the insertion portion, and extends radially outwardly from the insertion portion.

Abstract: In an air seeder assembly having a base mount member with a at least one base ear with a base bore, and a seed boot with at least one boot ear with a boot bore, a fastening assembly mounting the seed boot to the base mount member is disclosed. The fastening assembly comprises a fastener structure fastening the seed boot to the base mount member by extending through the base bore and the boot bore. The fastening assembly includes a fastener interface device inserted into at least one of the bores. The interface device comprises a substantially tubular insertion portion inserted into the at least one bore and a flange portion connected to the insertion portion, and extends radially outwardly from the insertion portion.

Abstract: A segmented furrow closing wheel comprises a body member rotatable about a rotation axis. The body member comprises a hub and a plurality of fingers radiating from the hub. Each of the fingers has a root end connected to the hub, and each of the fingers terminate at a radially outermost end with a contact surface for contacting a contact patchy on the ground surface. The contact surface of one of the fingers being spaced from the contact surfaces of the adjacent fingers of the plurality of fingers. The contact surface is blunt in character.