Casimir
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Really nice job, Shari /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif. I gotta enroll in a welding class /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif.
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kennyd
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Making the quick attach hooks took a couple of hours (had to heat the metal and bend it in a jig I made).
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Just a note note for you or anybody else, the hooks and pins are available from JD Parts and are pretty cheap, I think the hooks were $12.00 each and the pins were $5.00 each I think. I used them when I built my forklift attachment and they fit like a glove.
BTW, excellent job!
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Just a note note for you or anybody else, the hooks and pins are available from JD Parts and are pretty cheap, I think the hooks were $12.00 each and the pins were $5.00 each I think. I used them when I built my forklift attachment and they fit like a glove.
BTW, excellent job!
JRP
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Dis you draw in on CAD? Any chance of getting CAD file, plans or patterns?
I haven't weighed it, I know it weighs more than the HD bucket. Right now we are guessing it weighs 350 to 400 lbs.
As to the number of fingers, we wanted to make sure that grabbing any branches, tree parts, etc. that we would have plenty of leverage spread out the whole length. Also I wanted to be able to have short items in the grip.
I had seen this grapple made by a company in Yakima Washington, that had 8 or 9 teeth top and bottom, it made it so you could pick up more stuff without crushing it.
I also made it so the top jaw would open wide enough, but still fit between the arms of the FEL if it was tilted all the way back.
The way this is built, it also allows me to tilt is forward and have the jaws open so I can dig up roots.
I will be putting the grapple through it's paces here soon. I should find any other design issues soon. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
As to the number of fingers, we wanted to make sure that grabbing any branches, tree parts, etc. that we would have plenty of leverage spread out the whole length. Also I wanted to be able to have short items in the grip.
I had seen this grapple made by a company in Yakima Washington, that had 8 or 9 teeth top and bottom, it made it so you could pick up more stuff without crushing it.
I also made it so the top jaw would open wide enough, but still fit between the arms of the FEL if it was tilted all the way back.
The way this is built, it also allows me to tilt is forward and have the jaws open so I can dig up roots.
I will be putting the grapple through it's paces here soon. I should find any other design issues soon. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I guess I was gun shy after trying to buy bushings for the iMatch parts. Over $30!
Part of the fun, I guess was trying to figure out how to make all the parts work /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Do you have those part numbers from John Deere? I haven't found them on their site. I would love to have some spares /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Part of the fun, I guess was trying to figure out how to make all the parts work /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Do you have those part numbers from John Deere? I haven't found them on their site. I would love to have some spares /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
JDGREEN4ME
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WOW /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif That looks great! Sure would like a set-up like that for my tractor /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Renze
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I think i need one too !!
Not just for rock raking (we dont have rocks in my part of the Netherlands) and bush and root raking, but also to clean out the big horse stable, hoofs can pack the muck real tight. I have bent a silage block cutter in previous muck duties, so a good grapple would be a good idea for me. I think i would make a closed bottom, with the rootrake tines extending a 20 cm or so..
We live around the forest, and coming years we have loads of trees to cut up, causing a lot of sticks and twigs, the grapple would be the best equipment to pick up tree waste...
Not just for rock raking (we dont have rocks in my part of the Netherlands) and bush and root raking, but also to clean out the big horse stable, hoofs can pack the muck real tight. I have bent a silage block cutter in previous muck duties, so a good grapple would be a good idea for me. I think i would make a closed bottom, with the rootrake tines extending a 20 cm or so..
We live around the forest, and coming years we have loads of trees to cut up, causing a lot of sticks and twigs, the grapple would be the best equipment to pick up tree waste...
I have to update a couple of items on the plans I have, then I can distribute them to people.
I am also working up a parts list. I did a layout manually for the 7 blades of each size on the 4x8 plate of steel, but then I gave the cutting shop the option of using their own nesting software.
I had to buy the whole 4x8 piece of steel, so I have a bit left over for other projects /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I am also working up a parts list. I did a layout manually for the 7 blades of each size on the 4x8 plate of steel, but then I gave the cutting shop the option of using their own nesting software.
I had to buy the whole 4x8 piece of steel, so I have a bit left over for other projects /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Taylortractornut
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Renze have you ever seen a cement block fork for a fork lift, it consists of 4 to 8 1.5 or 2 inch square tapered tines for fitting in the hole in the block. I made one into a manure for for a friend horse barn a few years ago. OSHA mikes them so when they wear down a 1/4 inch they have to be replaced. I got a set and made them to fit his loader bracket and made a grapple for the top. He uses it for logs, brush, manure, and moving small square bales. They had a dairy barn on his farm that hadnt been cleaned in 40 years and the isles were filled with 2 to 5 feet of packed manure 7 feet wide. Those tines just bit through and he eventually saved the barn. I uilt him a rock picker out of the same type of tines for a 140 horse Ford tractor that have held up well to.
rockyridgefarm
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Awesome Shari! How much is shipping to Oklahoma?!! Ok, maybe I;ll settle for the drawings... I don't dare show that to my wife, she'd be out welding for days, and I won't get to see her, (course, maybe I'd get to use her tractor....)
Really nice....
Really nice....