Patent ID: 8414219

Claim:
A transport system for a riding power trowel, the power trowel having a plurality of blades that are supported for rotation relative to a frame of the power trowel, and a cage that overlies and surrounds the blades, the transport system comprising front and rear wheel assemblies located in front of and behind a longitudinal centerline of the power trowel, respectively, each of the front and rear wheel assemblies comprising a first wheel and a second wheel located on opposite sides of a lateral centerline of the power trowel, respectively, a wheel support arrangement on which the first and second wheels are mounted, and a powered actuator arrangement that is actuatable to raise and lower the first and second wheels from a stowed position in which the wheels are located above the ground and the blades are supported on the ground to a deployed position in which the wheels are supported on the ground and the blades are raised from the ground and the power trowel is supported solely on the wheels, wherein the support arrangement of each of the front and rear wheel assemblies includes a first support assembly and a second support assembly coupled to the first wheel and the second wheel, respectively, each of the first support assembly and the second support assembly comprising a mounting bracket welded to a forklift tube of the frame of the power trowel and a pivoting bracket pivotally coupled to the mounting bracket at a first portion thereof and coupled to the respective wheel at a second portion thereof, and wherein each of the mounting brackets is welded to a forklift tube of the frame of the power trowel.