</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Is something similar to this available commercially? That is one cool setup! )</font>
jwcinpk, Thanks for the reply, the toothbar on the bottom of bucket was ordered from markham welding ($324.00 shipped), the bucket is the original that came with the tractor except it was beefed up with 3/8 in flat bar on top lip of bucket to strengthen the connections for the grapple. The grapple was designed with alot of reading and looking at homemade ones in the customization forum here at TBN, with that said, I gave my welder some rough drawings and we went from there.....I will tell you that if you have debris, wooded land, etc the grapple sure comes in handy.............total cost for the home made custom grapple is aprox. ($400.00) thats steel, hoses, hyd cyl, labor and all the fittings.....the grapple is ran from rear remote, it does get a little cumbersome at times trying to move back and forth from loader control stick to rear remote control stick, I may change it later to a diverter valve setup with a electric thumb detent button on loader control stick....do a search here at TBN with the word grapple and look at all the homemade ones, its really not all that tough.........mlitt12345