Remote Hydraulic Line Disconnect
Remote Hydraulic Line Disconnect
(OP)
Does anyone know of a commercially available system to remotely disconnect hydraulic lines? My application is as follows:
A tractor with three point hitch mounted implement which runs on hydraulics. The three point hitch can be remotely connected and disconnected from inside the cab but the hydraulics connecting the tractor to the implement are not. Would like to be able to drop the implement off the hitch and remotely disconnect the hydraulic lines and drive away. I know you can get manually actuated quick disconnect blocks to disconnect two or more lines at once but have not come across anything that could be remotely disconnected. Note that at this time remote "connection" is not necessary. Looking for ability to disconnect quickly only.
Thanks.
A tractor with three point hitch mounted implement which runs on hydraulics. The three point hitch can be remotely connected and disconnected from inside the cab but the hydraulics connecting the tractor to the implement are not. Would like to be able to drop the implement off the hitch and remotely disconnect the hydraulic lines and drive away. I know you can get manually actuated quick disconnect blocks to disconnect two or more lines at once but have not come across anything that could be remotely disconnected. Note that at this time remote "connection" is not necessary. Looking for ability to disconnect quickly only.
Thanks.
Larry Jorgenson, P.Eng (Mechanical - U of S, 1994)
Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI)
Humboldt, SK Canada
www.pami.ca





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I suppose you could put some kind of electric servo motor on this to actuate it remotely but I'm curious as to whether anyone knows of a product that's already available.
Larry Jorgenson, P.Eng (Mechanical - U of S, 1994)
Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI)
Humboldt, SK Canada
www.pami.ca
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Ted
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My though was along the lines of your second post. You could use a number of different actuation methods. The nice thing with those blocks is that the circuits always get hooked up correctly.
I assume that you are using a quick hitch. You could mount one half of the block to the quick hitch so that you wouldn't need any fancy plumbing on the tractor. Just run 2-3ft hoses to the tractor's couplers. Whatever you are using to unlock the quick hitch could probably be rigged to unlock the hydraulic block. My first thought was a small hydraulic cylinder connected to both latches. You could check out the wing lock system used on the CaseIH 4300 field cultivator and 5800 chisel plows, which I helped develop while at CaseIH.
ISZ
RE: Remote Hydraulic Line Disconnect
If you could live with this type of block setup being added to all your implements, you could easily automate the movement of the cam slot with a small hydraulic cylinder.
If you need From-The-Seat coupling however, you would have to accurately and rigidly mount the blocks the same on all the implements.