EDGARIAN,
I apologize ahead of time . . Because this post is not brief. I wanted to address your questions properly rather than piecemeal. And I detailed examples as well.
1. You mentioned you installed led headlights as well as work lights. What did you need to do to make the headlights led?
2. You asked about the Massey GC1700 bucket QA and there is alot I can tell you about it because mine is the original one for the dl95 loader . . If you happen to see the video of it . . I was working the camera while the designer from mytractortools.com was running the fel.
Its important to understand I have a bias toward implements and equipment that is built for the need and not just the market. So often you hear about the ssqa standards of attachment. But most don't understand that ssqa is a design created for skid steers and their power needs and abilities and their strengths anf weaknesses. So ssqa implements typically are designed with a fair amount of weight. But weight is precious to fully use a scuts ability . . and mytractortools.com products are designed for scuts and also very specific set of a couple loaders for kubota b series units. Why? Because a scut can often do more work than people give them credit for if they have the right implements. If a qa is designed to be both convenient and able to better support an implement, then a set of forks can be designed in a similar manner and you end up with less implement weight and qa weight and more payload available. Thats what mytractortools.com does. Whether its using different steel choices or using different support designs and fabrication methods . . it gives you either more convenience or more capacity or both.
But lets talk examples. My fork set weighs about 115 pounds. It quick attaches in the front in about 45 seconds. They also offer an automatic version that is even faster because you don't need to leave your seat to attach and detach. But . . that fork set is more capable for weight than my scut fel can lift because it can also be used on my 3pt hitch and it's lift capacity of 1190 lbs (massey spec) and that means it can be used on other 3 pr. Units too its strong, it does not rust easily because its sandblasted . . Then primered . . then powdercoated just as all their products are. That's different than most implements I've seen by others (normally at least 1 of those 3 processes is not done in my experience). Paint stays on . . Rust stays off.
Example two . . I want a grapple for my gc1715. I want something strong that can open wide but is narrow so I can reach in betwern trees to grab something or in a pile of rock or logs and get just 1 without diddling around. Mytractortools doesn't make 1 grapple . They have at least 4 I know of . . One is a horizontal grapple . . A different one is called a mini-grapple.
Its called a mini because its only 11 inches wide . . Yet it can open to 28 inches for big rocks or logs or bunches of limbs/branches. Its called "mini" also because it weighs so much less than typical grapples for scuts. A large maker of scut products has 1 choice in a grapple for scuts. Its 157 lbs and 4 feet wide with a 30 inch opening. The mini grapple is 77 lbs, 11 inches wide with a 28 inch opening. I want the mini grapple because it grabs in a tighter area rather than a wider area which is really good for big rocks and access to get to them. I want 80 pounds less weight so I can lift and haul 80 pounds more weight. AND a mini grapple is strong - again anything my fel can lift it is designed for. And a mini grapple is less money than a 4 foot grapple from the competition.
Mytractirtools.com makes quick attach products for some yanmar scut units, as well as all kubota bx products and kioti scuts and massey scuts etc. etc... But the new dl95 loader was especially tricky because it has a unique but beneficial design. The dl100 loader I understand was an easy adaptation of prior models . . but the dl95 requirwd some considerable design changes to maximize its built in benefits.
By the way . . My qa also has a built in 2 inch receiver so trailers and winches and chains for pulling can be implemented easily and cheaply. There is also an optional ripper tooth available that I don't have.
Honestly I had no idea I'd use the forks as much as I already have. I've seen some of the optional buckets mytractortools.com also offers and I sense they maybe having other items coming out in later 2016 as well
Some will tell you the price of a patented Quick Attach is more than a kubota qa. Thats true . . but my point is . . if it does more . . its not an apples to apples comparison. My point is . . a patented Quick Attach plus mini grapple plus set of forks totalled in price is cheaper than those 3 items from other vendors and allows me to do more work and heavier work with them too.
Just my opinion . . and certainly I can't afford willy-nilly implement decisions
By the way . . I undetstand they can also adapt now to units that already have some ssqa built in or J.D. style . . but you'd have to talk to mytractirtools.com to verify that as I'm just a customer.
P.S. by the way . . Don't forget #1 at the beginning
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