Info for adding front remotes

duramax1 · Oct 6, 2004

I am wanting to add a set of remotes on the front of the fel on my TC 45 in order to add a grapple attachment. Can anyone give advise as where to start and what additional valves ect. will be needed?

Rch · Oct 6, 2004

Dmax1, I built a tree snipper and had to run one remote to the front of the FEL to run the jaws. It's on a 1910 Ford which is a Shibaura platform as is yours. Basically I added a spool in series; the following picture shows hose A to the FEL spools, hose B out of the FEL spool to the new spool and hose C out of the new spool to the manifold block.

New spool plumbed in series

Here is the thread.

Tree snipper with hydraulics added to front

The later Attachment/pictures in the thread detail the hydraulic details, including the first picture above. It was straight forward- I spent the most time on securely mounting the new spool /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

ns_in_tex · Oct 6, 2004

I had duel rear remotes, so I chose to run (permanant) hoses from the rear to the front and mount another quick connect block.

So far it has worked well for me. The few times I need a rear remote, I just unplug a hose at the rear during that operation.

I did try mouning an electric selector valve first, but had problems with leak down ETC, so I abandoned that route.

texbaylea · Oct 6, 2004

My Kubota Grand L3130HST has three factory remote valves. In order to support a tree shear with rotation capability the "plumbing" is setup this way. Circuits 1 & 2 have QDs at the back. Circuit 2 is teed so that Circuits 2 & 3 run forward. QDs are installed on the loader mount to allow the loader to be removed. Circuits 2 & 3 are then extended to QD blocks mounted on the loader cross member for hydraulic connections there. I have a quick attach option so I can interchange the tree shear and a bucket with a grapple. It all works great.

Vernon