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[PHPaul]

I'll see your rooster....

and raise ya a croc-a-gator.

 

[metalbender]

Lathe steady

 

[bigtiller]

I'll see your rooster....


and raise ya a croc-a-gator.

Excellent! I need a bigger scrap pile.

 

[DanMc77]

I built this hydraulic thumb for my backhoe and finished it last summer. This project is covered in the John Deere Tractor forum here. I owe a great deal of thanks to everybody in the JD forum who provided valuable advice with figuring this out. I'm linking this here since people in this build-it-yourself forum may not have seen it.
https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums...g/380392-building-thumb-model-48-backhoe.html