US Patent: 4,019,549 
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| Wood Splitting Apparatus
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	        Patentee:
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 | Thurston V. Williams (exact or similar names) - Wilton, Hillsborough County, NH |  
 
 
 
 
 
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| Not known to have been produced |  
 
 
 
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        Patent Dates:
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| Applied: | 
Mar. 19, 1976 | 
 
| Granted: | 
Apr. 26, 1977 | 
 
 
 
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                        Jeff Joslin 
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        Description: |  
| Abstract:A wood splitting attachment for a backhoe includes a guide track mounted on the backhoe main boom and a guide track follower attached to the backhoe secondary boom or dipperstick. The follower engages and follows the guide track as the main boom and secondary boom swing toward each other. A wood splitting wedge on the track is driven through a stick of wood pushed along the track by the dipper-stick. |  
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