I finally had a chance to go pick up my grapple yesterday. The people at YRC Freight were great. Got it home, ripped off the plastic, snipped the steel strapping and pondered how to get it out. Turns out it is really hard to lift of lower something into the bed of a truck. My plan was to lift it up a few inches and drive out from under it, but the front of the tractor would want to hit the truck before I was centered over the load. So instead I was able to VERY carefully finesse my way in and attach directly to the quick attach and lift it out fully attached to the FEL. Spent the next several hours going to two or three places gathering my hoses, fittings etc, came home and put it all together. The grapple works great and on my Kioti the rear remote lever is very close to my FEL joystick. I'm, just going to stick with that for now. The one thing I
can say if you are measuring hoses for either running it from the rear remotes or third function is to curl the grapple all the way forward. I ran into a problem with tight hoses when I did this, but with some rerouting I think I'm okay now. Oh, btw, this thing opens WIDE, way way wide, as wide as you would ever want.
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