Jchonline
Elite Member
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2018
- Messages
- 3,071
- Location
- Red Feather Lakes, CO
- Tractor
- Kubota L6060, KX040-4, M7060, X1100C, M62(S)
Congrats; very nice find and I'm sure you will love it.
I know this is almost heresy to advocate this on this site, but I would not get a third function to operate a grapple because you have no reliable way to feather the operation of the grapple. Instead I'd use the rear remotes which are controlled by a real valve.
I spent the money to put a third function on my 4060, used it for one day and went back to using the rear remotes like I had on all of my previous tractors. I even tried using a flow control valve on the third function, but that didn't work either.
My grapple is part of my pallet forks and I use it to secure loads as well as a way to hold brush and logs on the forks. As such I need to be able to softly open/close the grapple to hold what is occasionally a pretty fragile load or to slowly release a log into the dump trailer. The fast action of the third function just didn't do that for me.
Just my $.02 based on my experience.
Tractor grapples really are made for fine control. If you want that you need an excavator.
So you have a separate lever for controlling the grapple open/close instead of the buttons on the loader joystick, or did you rig something else to work?
No way I would use a rear remote for my grapple ....but to each his own!