hydraulic electric diverter valve
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Apsterbobed
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I have the hoe out back most of the time, but what I end up doing is mounting the grapple then grabbing the bucket and just dropping it near where I'm working. Hindsight is 20 20, I may end up making a grapple bucket anyways...
Sysop
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Pick up the bucket with the grapple and carry it like you would a log or anything else. Place it where you will be working, change as needed. Carry it home when done.
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I've been into a thousand things and sidetracked. I was likely (slowly) composing mine as he was posting that.
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Unfortunately so...
Apsterbobed
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That is what I do, but it can be a pain switching back and forth. When I really want a combo bucket is when I'm digging rocks or stumps out of the trail. Use the bucket to clean the trail then switch to the grapple to carry off the rock or stump. It's still less of a pain to switch than to not have a grapple or tractor!
DieselBound
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As LD1 states, don't sell yourself short.
If you have a tractor there's going to be times when you HAVE to do the work on it yourself. I think that learning to do things on an elective basis enables you to deal with the sure "fire" that you're eventually going to find yourself in.
I knew nothing about tractors six years ago. Had some mechanical and electrical skills, but nothing that was necessarily specific to tractors: no diesel background either- now I have (and maintain) many diesels. Not sure if you have the ability to transport your tractor to/from the dealer's, but if you don't then the transport charge can take a chunk out of your wallet. Not until a couple years ago did I have the ability to transport my B7800 (transporting my Kioti is NOT going to happen!). Came close once to having the B7800 picked up, but, fortunately, I figured out the problem: I was installing some work lights and had a bad wire connection that caused the tractor to not start- I'd even bought a new key switch but that wasn't the problem.
On my Kioti I've got the grapple running off of rear remotes, detent. I have yet to really use this set up (I need to repaint my torque tube after having a hose saver base plate welded to it), but the detent will allow me to just smack the control open or closed and get my hand back on the loader control stick (how one operates a log splitter); yes, I'll need to pop the valve back into neutral, and probably fairly quickly. I don't expect to be running the grapple for hours on end so I don't think that I'd miss a diverter set up: when one has never had any such ability one likely won't really miss it. If I didn't have three rear remotes I'd have gone the diverter route. NOTE: I have run excavators with thumb controls on the joystick, and here it's a total no-brainer as you're really looking to work things quickly; with a tractor and a big grapple you're not going to be operating as quickly (compare excavator bucket sizes to the size of a grapple and think about grabbing material and then dumping it- volume needs space, space to operate around, space to relocated material to, which means travel time between material grabs and dumps).