Kubota Corporation

Daniel Underwood

Robert Stewart Boyd

Takahiro Yonekura

Ryuichi Nadaoka

Carlos Cabrera

Chad Reeves

Patrick Penland

Hiroaki Iizuka

A front guard attached to a front portion of a vehicle body of a work vehicle includes a lower frame attached to the vehicle body, and an upper frame that is attached to the lower frame so as to be swingable around a shaft oriented in the vehicle width direction and the posture of which can be changed between a standing posture and a forward leaning posture by swinging with respect to the lower frame. The upper frame has: a left part that is pivotally supported by a left portion of the lower frame and extends upward; a right part that is pivotally supported by a right portion of the lower frame and extends upward; and an upper part that couples an upper portion of the left part and an upper portion of the right part. The upper part is provided with a protruding portion that protrudes downward.

Front guard and working vehicle

A front loader includes a boom to which a bucket or a working implement other than the bucket is attached, a boom cylinder to move the boom, a first control valve to supply an operation fluid to the boom cylinder, a supporting member supporting the boom on a front portion of a vehicle body of a work machine, an attachment frame extending backward from the supporting member. The attachment frame is attached to a side portion of the vehicle body. The front loader further includes a second control valve to supply the operation fluid to the working implement. The second control valve is attached to the attachment frame.

Front loader and work machine

A front loader includes a boom, a first pivotal shaft disposed on a tip portion of the boom, a bucket supported by the first pivotal shaft to be capable of performing a shoveling movement and a dumping movement, a boom cylinder to swing the boom, a bucket cylinder to move the bucket to make the bucket perform the shoveling movement and the dumping movement, a control valve to be switched to any one of a first state supplying an operation fluid to the bucket cylinder and a second state stopping supplying the operation fluid to the bucket cylinder, a first movable member to turn around the first pivotal shaft in accordance with the movement of the bucket, and a wire connecting the first movable member to the control valve.

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Jefferson, GA, United States of America

Daniel Underwood