BH77 with BXPANDED Quick-On

[bandit67]

Just installed my new BXPANDED Quick-On. Could have used this years ago. Swapping between the bucket and the MI&E ripper was a complete pain before the Quick-On, especially with having to line up the thumb, so I'm looking forward to getting a whole lot more use out of the ripper now that it is so ridiculously easy to do the swap.

 

[bikerdib]

Yep, I've had mine for about 3 years now. I would never go back. Only issue I've had is loosing the keeper pin, I keep a couple of extras on the tractor or sometimes use a bolt and nylock nut. Yours lloks better than mine though since they now offer it in orange, mine is silver.

 

[mdhughes]

I just got mine 14-July, they didn't offer it in orange when I ordered mine.

 

[bandit67]

This one has been in the works for a few months. It was customized a bit because my ripper pin spacing is 3/4" further than the pin spacing on the factory buckets, so the Quick-On was beefed up to handle the further spaced ripper's rear pin sitting out closer to the end of the slot. I also asked if they could do it in orange for me - sometimes you just have to ask. :thumbsup:

 

[Johnkn]

When I purchased mine 3 years ago I just painted it Kubota orange to match.

 

[Tompet]

This one has been in the works for a few months. It was customized a bit because my ripper pin spacing is 3/4" further than the pin spacing on the factory buckets, so the Quick-On was beefed up to handle the further spaced ripper's rear pin sitting out closer to the end of the slot. I also asked if they could do it in orange for me - sometimes you just have to ask. :thumbsup:

I bought one too a couple years ago. It would not work with my MIE ripper and I had a local shop modify "ears" to fit by same 3/4". So you asked bxpanded to adapt their QA to accept MIE ripper as made? Good call on your part!

A couple things compromised with my QA are you lose full 180 degree bucket rotation a bit and the bucket is a little sloppy vs factory pins. Is this ame with your version? I would have just went with bxpanded ripper at the time if I was aware of it. But as stated, trade off in time/hassle worth it.

 

[bandit67]

Yes, typical with any backhoe QA is an extra bit of slop, even on big machines. I didn't seem to lose any bucket rotation that I can tell, but part of that could be the factory thumb may have already cut off a slight bit of rotation. Overall, I'm very pleased with the new setup.

 

[Tractor Dell]

I got one for my BX23S, so I could swap between the bucket and BXpanded ripper. It literally takes about 30 seconds to swap it out. Makes it easy when I am in the woods digging out stumps.

 

[hotdog4]

You guys that have had this for a while. Does it have much free play? And how is holding up? I’m thinking about ordering this for my Kubota l3200 with the bh77 backhoe.