This might be a good time for me to admit a dangerous mistake. The other day I dropped my Grapple bucket and picked up my regular bucket. Picked it up and moved over to the front of the machine shed. Same time, my Brother came along and we visited for a few minutes. Then I moved on to push some snow. Where I was working there was a tree limb broken and hanging down. I raised my bucket almost all the way up to knock the limb out of the tree. I didn't change the bucket curl as I raised it so when it was 9 or 10 feet in the air it was tilted way back. I bumped the tree limb and suddenly realized I hadn't latched the bucket onto the frame. One side slid far enough off the hitch that it wasn't hooked at all. I slammed the joystick forward to drop the loader boom before the bucket could slide further rearward. The bucket fell off and landed on the ground in front of me. With my loader frame raised that high if I hadn't noticed that it wasn't latched and continued to push on that tree limb the bucket would have tumbled down the backside of the loader frame and landed on top of me. I sat there for quite a few seconds recounting what I had almost done. I picked up the bucket, latched it, took the tractor back to the machine shed and went home for the day.
Sorry for the hijack.
