Putting a Woods BH on my 7610 - which one?

Ductape · May 2, 2009

Good deal.......... the 70X is a nice hoe. Are you going to do the install yourself? Be sure to post us some pics when you get it.

newbury · May 2, 2009

Ductape said:
Good deal.......... the 70X is a nice hoe. Are you going to do the install yourself? Be sure to post us some pics when you get it.

NO WAY!!
The ONLY used one I've found in my area the guy wanted almost $6K for a 2yr old used BH70X, with no subframe. Woods wants around around $1K for the subframe. That is just about what I'm paying for new installed.

NOTE to ALL POTENTIAL BH70X sellers w/subframe for a B7610!!
I'll buy if it's cheap!

hr3 · May 3, 2009

You will love the BH70X.,, I have it on my 7610, with the woods thumb,,manual though..I wish it was hydro..I have very rocky ground and can lift very large rocks out with it,,,I was amased... Takes about 5min. to put on or take off..If you are going to have the dealer put it on,,ask them to locktite the mounting bolts,,Mine kept loosning them up untill I put loctite on every bolt,,,

newbury · May 3, 2009

hr3 said:
You will love the BH70X.,, I have it on my 7610, with the woods thumb,,manual though..I wish it was hydro..I have very rocky ground and can lift very large rocks out with it,,,I was amased... Takes about 5min. to put on or take off..If you are going to have the dealer put it on,,ask them to locktite the mounting bolts,,Mine kept loosning them up untill I put loctite on every bolt,,,

Thanks, if you had chimed in earlier I probably would have chosen it earlier.
Good point about the loctite.

NHbotanut · May 3, 2009

I found the 70X cable of lifting quite a few items that I didn't think it could. I havn't found that the BH moves the 7610 around at all. One of my projects this summer is to convert the Woods manual thumb to hyd. like I have for the grapple.
Make sure you get a thumb.....you will be amazed at what you can do with it and how much easier it is to complete jobs.

Ductape · May 3, 2009

NHbotanut said:
One of my projects this summer is to convert the Woods manual thumb to hyd. like I have for the grapple.

I plan on doing the same with my 80X...... though I'm not sure I'll get it done this summer.

newbury · May 3, 2009

NHbotanut said:
I found the 70X cable of lifting quite a few items that I didn't think it could. I havn't found that the BH moves the 7610 around at all. One of my projects this summer is to convert the Woods manual thumb to hyd. like I have for the grapple.
Make sure you get a thumb.....you will be amazed at what you can do with it and how much easier it is to complete jobs.

How difficult do you expect it to be to convert the manual thumb to a hydro?
The one "quote" I got for a Woods mechanical thumb was somewhere around $1000, so I was planning on going for a Bro-Tek, for about $500.