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Author Topic: Skidsteer Grapples  (Read 10122 times)

RSI

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Re: Skidsteer Grapples
« Reply #30 on: April 25, 2016, 10:25:02 PM »

Why didn't the pictures show?
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Re: Skidsteer Grapples
« Reply #31 on: April 25, 2016, 10:27:35 PM »

It is hard to tell from the pics but it looks as I suspected that you do lose some on the open end with the top mounted cylinders.



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Re: Skidsteer Grapples
« Reply #32 on: May 24, 2016, 06:10:39 AM »

Since I started this thread, I figured I should update it.  I went with a stump bucket with a grapple on it.  So far so good.  It's a wildkat brand.
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Re: Skidsteer Grapples
« Reply #33 on: May 24, 2016, 09:10:36 AM »

Had to work on mine recently, the nut on one of the cylinders that holds the piston back off a little then it pulled the nut right off the shaft. M22 nut of course, had to drive to the big city to get that, took a thread file to the shaft, turned a recess into the piston so the new nut could get more good threads.

Thing opened and closed to fast, even had the pins in the cylinder ends a little bowed. Took the fittings out of the cylinder, tapped the ID, ran a bolt with red locktite in till they bottomed out, then drilled a 3/32 hole thru the bolt.
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