Sorry folks, got distracted with family stuff last night and didn't have the opportunity to reply.
The other is I usually have somewhat organized piles of brush I'm moving. That is, as I'm cutting I am stacking the brush and branches in piles. Then I can just scoop the piles up and the stuff all lays across the forks pretty good.
Hmmm I'm usually pretty organized about my piles. I spent 15 years as an exotic animal keeper so I got to be pretty **** about organizing trash/manure/brush piles. I used to get annoyed when people haphazardly stacked brush that we would later have to hand load and unload. Anyways glad to here that the forks are durable
I've had issues with the brackets over time. The clamp part is fine, but the v-bar thing that secures them to the bucket lip can lose their spring or something. I need to write to Harry, as I understand there is a way to make a little adjustment to them to make them snap tightly into place again.
As for the springs - if they are easy to replace/service I think I can live with going "sproing" and disappearing off into the sunset occasionally, at least as compared to the price of installing a third function plus a grapple at the moment.
One thing to be aware of. Look at his pictures closely. Because of the way they mount, your bucket is already tipped some when the forks are level. When the bucket is dumped all the way, the fork angle isn't all that steep. I find that I often have to shake the bucket to get brush to dump off.
I noticed what you are referring to and had wondered if there might be a way to strap the uprights to the buck on a temporary basis in order to facilitate dumping. Kinda like a poor man's rigid forks so to speak.
I'm ASSuming you mean pallet forks.
Yes, I would be referring to pallet forks. As in two separate forks that when combined make up a singular pair
I bought a pair of clamp ons from Palletfork.com. I (and my son) moved several tons of brush, bamboo and vine.
Thanks for pointing out the clamp on forks, at about 1/2 the price of bxpanded's forks those are now on my radar as well. I definitely won't have a need for the 5K rated version. The light duty offering is rated at about twice my loader's capacity
Here's what you need. A set of forks with grapple. Titan Attachments sells them as do other companies.
You're right I do need, or at least want, a set up similar to that. Believe me I've been reading about how to plumb in a third function as well as rear remotes so that one day U can make it happen. (I'm not overly thrilled abut the idea of paying dealer fees for hydraulics) In any case the grapple you posted would come close to maxing out my little bx.
As it stands right now I am torn between the lower cost, rigid, clamp on forks and the higher cost "floating" forks from expanded. As well somewhere in there I am still thinking about Kubota's QA setup. Apparently I have the LA243a loader variant, but do not have the QA bar that goes with it. Decisions, decisions, decisions..... and I thought you people were going to help me with a quick answer, not make it more complicated.
