Bobcat tree spade hydraulics

[treefarmer1964]

I purchased a brand new Bobcat TS36 tree spade this past spring to use on my bobcat with selectable joystick controls. I currently do not have outriggers on my machine but would like to add them. I want to add bobcat outriggers for what looks like the relative ease of taking them on and off--I can't have the weight on the back of the machine for balance reasons part of the year. If I remember the dealer said the cost of plumbing the machine for the rear hydraulic kit would be around $3000 to 4000. My main question/problem comes after watching a Bobcat advertising video on YouTube. They make reference to being able to add on to the hydraulic valve body on the tree spade, run hoses down the lift arms to the rear of the machine and operate the factory outriggers--fully integrated into the Bobcat controls in the joysticks as they should operate. The waters get a little muddied when I contacted the Bobcat head office. They have never heard of such a thing even though it's advertised in their promotional video. So I am looking for help/advise here to set the spade up as per their video--seamless, fully intergrated operation from the joysticks.
Thanks.

 

[SSdoxie]

I found it listed in the online Parts Catalog, sold as a kit which means it is not in a Salesman's attachment or accessories listings.
Part number is 7152666

 

[treefarmer1964]

Thanks for the information. I called my local Bobcat dealer today. That part is no longer available. He checked into it further and according to his sources above him in the company, Bobcat sold approximately two of those hydraulic kits. I guess not much interest so they discontinued the item. I wonder if Bobcat manufactured their own valve units or did they sub that manufacturing out. If so, I wonder if one could contact their supplier to see if it might still be available from them.

 

[SSdoxie]

The valve would have been a purchased item, likely from same supplier as the main valve on tree spade. Unknowns are: Is Bobcat still using the same valve? They did considerable redesigning of the tree spade over years so the valve and supplier may have changed. How to connect electrical control. Either the Tree Spade ACD would need to be reprogrammed to activate it or the loader main controller possibly both, and with kit being discontinued that programming may not exist.