Willman
Gold Member
On my 4110 I have the Bradco 509 BH that was dealer installed with the Bradco connection kit.
When I needed hyd. outlets up front for my blade & grapple I ran lines from the tractors rear remotes to the front.
This setup works just fine but the hose switching gets to be a pain when I want to go from grapple to BH or vise versa.
If your familair with the Bradco connections, you need to switch the BH hose on the power beyond port to the dummy plug and then connect the tractor rear remotes & 3 pt. hose to the power beyond port (from the dummy plug)
My thought is to add a Price 2 way manual selector (20 gpm/2500 psi) valve between the power beyond port and the two hoses (BH & remote)
Then to my surprise I was looking at the Bradco BH installation instructions and I see that before January 2003 the Bradco connection kit included a 2 way selector valve!
My tractor is a 2004 model with the newer kit.
So.... here are my questions:
1) Does any one know why Bradco discontinued using the selector valve?
and
2) Would adding a selector valve not work or do some sort of damage?
When I needed hyd. outlets up front for my blade & grapple I ran lines from the tractors rear remotes to the front.
This setup works just fine but the hose switching gets to be a pain when I want to go from grapple to BH or vise versa.
If your familair with the Bradco connections, you need to switch the BH hose on the power beyond port to the dummy plug and then connect the tractor rear remotes & 3 pt. hose to the power beyond port (from the dummy plug)
My thought is to add a Price 2 way manual selector (20 gpm/2500 psi) valve between the power beyond port and the two hoses (BH & remote)
Then to my surprise I was looking at the Bradco BH installation instructions and I see that before January 2003 the Bradco connection kit included a 2 way selector valve!
My tractor is a 2004 model with the newer kit.
So.... here are my questions:
1) Does any one know why Bradco discontinued using the selector valve?
and
2) Would adding a selector valve not work or do some sort of damage?