Grapple for the Kubota BX25-D

[cschulz]

Question for you Paul? Are any of your other hydo controls effected when you use the solenoid valve? Or are all operations normal while using the grapple?

Chris

 

[srs]

Paul, excellent videos. I really enjoyed watching them. It was so nice of you and your wife to compose the videos and they will certainly help many TBN members here with improving their tractors. Thanks for all your hard work and sharing it with us. Stanley

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

I see a QA on the backhoe bucket. Is that a Kubota part or did you make it yourself? I'd really like to have one for my BH77

 

[4shorts]

I'll agree with this one also. She have any sisters as supportive as herself?

At-A-Boy Paul!

Chris

They're all married my friend but she was the best of the litter :laughing:

Question for you Paul? Are any of your other hydo controls effected when you use the solenoid valve? Or are all operations normal while using the grapple?

Chris

Chris. I sat on the machine last night out in the shop testing the hydraulic thumb. I had a block of wood on the shop floor and I'd use the thumb with the bucket and it all worked great together. I never noticed any ill effect at all. I did notice though I was pleasantly surprised of the thumbs power. I used 1/4 hydraulic lines to the cylinder and it got a nice speed to it and it could crush the wood so I'm happy so far.
I also used the grapple while using the curl and up and down movement with the FEL and it's all good.

Paul, excellent videos. I really enjoyed watching them. It was so nice of you and your wife to compose the videos and they will certainly help many TBN members here with improving their tractors. Thanks for all your hard work and sharing it with us. Stanley

Thanks Stanley. I'm hoping it will help someone else. I know our dealer wanted to watch it. They haven't installed one yet. Thanks and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Awful long though but I wanted to get it all in there.

I see a QA on the backhoe bucket. Is that a Kubota part or did you make it yourself? I'd really like to have one for my BH77

It's one that I designed and built. It was a tough one to do. I haven tested it digging yet but it sure is quick to change over from my claw to the bucket. Here's a vid on it.

 

[4shorts]

I see a QA on the backhoe bucket. Is that a Kubota part or did you make it yourself? I'd really like to have one for my BH77

Here's another video related to the QH.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

It's one that I designed and built. It was a tough one to do. I haven tested it digging yet but it sure is quick to change over from my claw to the bucket. Here's a vid on it.

Thanks for that, looks like it should work out well for you. Very similar to what I'd been thinking for mine. Was there a reason you built the adapter on the outside of the existing bucket flange? I'd been thinking of going on the inside for no other reason than that's what I've seen on bigger stuff.

Any chance you'd share the geometry and spacing of the adapter so I could copy it? I guess I'd need the spacing of the bucket linkages also to see if they are the same ratio as my 77 then just scale them up to suit.

 

[WaxMan]

Here is a another nice video,
Paul did you ever think of replacing the top bolts with nice tighter fitting home made pins and bushing? Instead of the sloppy factory bolts?
They Probably left them sloppy like that thinking grease fitting were not needed. Being sloppy It would take forever to bind up. You did the right thing adding the fitting, but your getting lazy, do the bottom pistons too. It doesn't move much but will bind up over time because they don't move much, Getting it apart later will be a bear after time.
It's good you're into a project, Sunday night working in the garage. :thumbsup: I like those times, but I'm out of projects right now. So youtube ,Tv, drums and TBN for me right now.

When I do taping on the lathe I just put the tap in the tail stock chuck. When I use the die I do what you did in the video. Except I use the jaws of the chuck against the back of the die to keep it square. I guess everybody has their way.

 

[4shorts]

Thanks for that, looks like it should work out well for you. Very similar to what I'd been thinking for mine. Was there a reason you built the adapter on the outside of the existing bucket flange? I'd been thinking of going on the inside for no other reason than that's what I've seen on bigger stuff.

Any chance you'd share the geometry and spacing of the adapter so I could copy it? I guess I'd need the spacing of the bucket linkages also to see if they are the same ratio as my 77 then just scale them up to suit.

I put the brackets on the outside for two reasons. Because of the pipe on the bucket the AC would have been very difficult to hook up plus I would have designed it thinner in places.
The other reason was for support. Wider I felt was better.
I haven't even tried the QC yet so I don't even know how it will react on the tractor at this point.

Here is a another nice video,
Paul did you ever think of replacing the top bolts with nice tighter fitting home made pins and bushing? Instead of the sloppy factory bolts?
They Probably left them sloppy like that thinking grease fitting were not needed. Being sloppy It would take forever to bind up. You did the right thing adding the fitting, but your getting lazy, do the bottom pistons too. It doesn't move much but will bind up over time because they don't move much, Getting it apart later will be a bear after time.
It's good you're into a project, Sunday night working in the garage. :thumbsup: I like those times, but I'm out of projects right now. So youtube ,Tv, drums and TBN for me right now.

When I do taping on the lathe I just put the tap in the tail stock chuck. When I use the die I do what you did in the video. Except I use the jaws of the chuck against the back of the die to keep it square. I guess everybody has their way.

I've been working weird hours this last week or so. There's a ship in port and I'm helping a machine shop with some stuff so I get a little break during the day so today I did those lower pins on the BX. I didn't replace the bolts on the top ones but I did make them greaseable .

As for tapping in the lathe. I used to do it your way all the time until I got those spring loaded pins. Now I don't touch the tail stock because the spring loaded pins keeps the tap straight and keeps applying force on the tap.
It's true. We all have our own way.

 

[wmonroe]

Nice looking grapple! Do you have projects already lined up for it?

 

[4shorts]

Nice looking grapple! Do you have projects already lined up for it?

Thanks. Yes we want to do some more clearing down on the back of our property and the grapple will come in handy.