Milo
Platinum Member
- Joined
- Aug 7, 2006
- Messages
- 943
- Location
- Preston County, WV
- Tractor
- JD 3520, Ferris Z2100, Kawasaki Mule Pro MX, Honda Pioneer 520
I've connected the grapple many times w/o a problem. Today I struggled attaching the grapple to the SSQA loader arms, one side would hook but not the other then vice versa. So I got off to see why and saw that one of the unconnected grapple hoses had moved and was in the way preventing the loader ends to fit flush against the grapple. So essentially the flat part of the loader end would have been mashing a section of a hose against a flat part of the grapple mount as I mover the tractor forward. I didn't think anything of it as the hose doesn't appear to be affected at all. Naturally once I lifted the hose out of the way the grapple connected to the arms. But here's my problem, now I cannot connect the grapple hydraulic fittings to the tractor's, they simply will not connect. At first I assumed there was some pressure (which happens sometimes) so I checked and moved the loader valve around, made sure the 3-point was all the way down, opened the pressure release screw at the back. The couplers still would not connect. I repeated this a dozen times then finally started the tractor moved it shut it off, and went through the procedure to connect them another dozen times but I cannot press the fittings home. That's when I started thinking maybe it's not pressure in the tractor but in the grapple somehow? So I took the grapple off and hooked up to another front attachment and those fittings connected to the tractor with no problem. Any suggestions?