Hobo,NC

Well-known Member
Location
Sanford, NC
Grapple Its a bad arse tool... It almost unbelievable what you can do with it...

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I like it! What are your plans for it?
I'm assuming you bought it for a purpose?
Maybe just a new toy. We all like those too! LOL
 

If you clamp that sucker onto something solid, can you lift the whole tractor up?

Don't know why I would ask such a question but it just popped into my mind. :mrgreen:
 

I had a couple acres logged last fall ( I am out of usable land) and have a excavator coming this fall to pluck the stumps... So far I have cleaned up about 1/10 of all the left over brush/tree tops nuttin to it with this thang... As soon as it cools off some I need to clear out a place to place the brush and stumps on the RR right of way I have just about lined what I can get to (power line right of way) with brush... I am gonna let them worry about it I pay the taxes on it and can not use it other than make it a dump... When I get this part cleared gonna work on the other 20.....
 
(reply to post at 05:16:45 09/16/14)

I have lifted the back tars with out a counter weight with no counter weight I had to go around the clear cut no room for a back blade.... I have about got it cleared enuff I can add a heavy back blade for counter weight and not tear up nuttin... I have uprooted trees big as yer leg with it no problem and toted the hole tree to my land fill....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DwH39W1faE
 
(quoted from post at 18:28:54 09/15/14)
I have lifted the back tars with out a counter weight why no counter weight I had to go around the clear cut no room for a back blade.... I have about got it cleared enuff I can add a heavy back blade for counter weight and not tear up nuttin... I have uprooted trees big as yer leg with it no problem and toted the hole tree to my land fill....

Ok, I'm officially jealous.
 
That's a mean toy. Hope you got a good deal on it.
I saw one one CL once (Not as good as yours) for $200. Course it
was gone when I called. I have been wanting one bad. But they tend
to be pricey.
 

Watched the video.
Incredible tool!

I'd guess you have to be very careful with your tires, seeing as there are little stubby stumps here and there after a clear cut. (?)

T
 
I bought a root/brush grabble for my MF 2635 last fall.

I had a new bridge and driveway built this year and used the grapple to move and stack about 30 cedar trees and stumps, and probably 15 or 20 elms, black locust, ash, etc.

Sure beats dragging them to the brush pile with a chain and sawing them up so as to stack them by hand.

Great addition.

Dean
 
very nice!
you gave your Kubota 'hands'. good deal

Don't forget the other end :D
after many years of saying I just wouldn't use it enough for the price........I got the backhoe on my new Kubota...
(Thanks for the previous pics of yours, got me moving and I found a non-tier 4 one)
Should have done it 3 orange tractors ago.
sure, great for digging holes and trenches, but I also use it daily to 'claw' at my rock hard clay dirt piles before grabbing a scoop of dirt.
With Kubota's loader design getting a little weaker every re-design (still very tough though), tractor and loader take much less pounding digging dirt after a little backhoe clawing.
 
(quoted from post at 15:53:19 09/16/14) very nice!
you gave your Kubota 'hands'. good deal

Don't forget the other end :D
after many years of saying I just wouldn't use it enough for the price........I got the backhoe on my new Kubota...
(Thanks for the previous pics of yours, got me moving and I found a non-tier 4 one)
Should have done it 3 orange tractors ago.
sure, great for digging holes and trenches, but I also use it daily to 'claw' at my rock hard clay dirt piles before grabbing a scoop of dirt.
With Kubota's loader design getting a little weaker every re-design (still very tough though), tractor and loader take much less pounding digging dirt after a little backhoe clawing.

Did you add a hoe are buy one with a hoe... I have second thoughts I should have got a TBL... This is the last one on the lot I seen with a loader like I got don't know if thats good are bad... I added a TNT kit and made up my own rear controls for it... My arms are not long enuff to reach over beside the seat from behind the tractor.... You can see'em in the top right of the pic..

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Also added a tool box are 3 :lol:

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Make that 4
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And a hammer holder.
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Cool tractor Hobo.
Some good thinking, and fabrication skills on your mods too.
I spent a buck on a Powerball ticket today so if I'm lucky I'll be buying one of those babies soon.
 
great add-ons ya got there. workin machine.

I got one of the largest B's, a B3200 with the LA504 loader,
and had them add the BH77 backhoe before delivery.
I looked at the factory TLB outfit, but my trails won't fit a canopy, or up rollbar.
Backhoe is very powerful, maybe even too much.
Probably be a better fit/tool on yours. L right?
I really wanted an L this time around, but just a little too big for my work areas.(and they only had tier 4 L's)

Backhoe is very easy to put on and off, but mine stays on all the time, The old tractors work the dirt better anyway.
pretty hefty counterweight too :D
First thing I did when I got it home was climb under to see if that hoe was going to destroy the tractor.
They did their homework.
good sub-frame, tied to the tractor and the front loader frame. very sturdy.

Edit: in the 'make that 4' pic, it looks like your loader has the stronger design.
tip, same pic....that keeper rod on the loader remove pin. ziptie it tightly to the bracket. Those remove without tools gismos..........will...
 
very nice.

now when you get a hoe, get a thumb for the hoe too and you will have a real devil of a machine!
 

I will agree my old Fords and Farmalls were made to help grow what I can eat... My Bota will never replace them they all have there place...

I had to lay quite a few trees on my kin folks land because of the RR track and power line right of way... My aunt told me she knew a man that would remove the brush for $600 from that moment on I was on a mission to get my left over bush off of there land...

I got it done with a pallet fork attachment and my bota in 6hr. $100 a hour is not bad pay :wink: If I would have had this bad boy about a hour are so and I could have made $300 a hour :D
 
It blows my mind what this toy will do... I am almost done cleaning up the cut over so the excavator can come in a pluck the stumps... I may buy a hoe and dig'em myself.. :D

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But I have to stop every now and again to fix the AC on for the locals that have to have a cab... :cry: But it pays the bills...



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(quoted from post at 19:04:47 09/30/14) It blows my mind what this toy will do... I am almost done cleaning up the cut over so the excavator can come in a pluck the stumps... I may buy a hoe and dig'em myself.. :D

pics got me sold. Gotta save for that attachment.
I have a lot of screen trees, hybrids that grow like mad.
which is a good thing, but they have to be cut back a couple times a year.
cutting, then stacking the butt ends on a carry-all, dragging the long limbs to a fencerow, then hand stacking them on the natural 'fence'.
takes days and is a serious workout.
That grapple would be just the ticket. Might take a whole hour then LOL
 

Nutter teaser :twisted:

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If it has a leak I have found it :lol: Quick pit stop and tighten it up... Well you know a limb are 2 gets thru so at work on a grill guard this is the frame I did add some more structure support next the wire mess...

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Last Friday after I dropped my oldest son off at preschool I stopped by a Kubota Dealership next to the dinner where I was getting lunch for my guys in the shop. Anyways, I am quite impressed by the design of their loaders. Every angle I could look at made me want one for my 2N, I am partial to small things and the ones they had on their large riding mowers looked perfect for my 2N. I am quite jealous of your machine. Does yours have the quick attach design for the entire loader? The new ones I was looking at could be removed with the push of 2 levers or something like that in a matter of minutes..

Very Jealous either way...
 
(quoted from post at 09:19:35 10/13/14) Last Friday after I dropped my oldest son off at preschool I stopped by a Kubota Dealership next to the dinner where I was getting lunch for my guys in the shop. Anyways, I am quite impressed by the design of their loaders. Every angle I could look at made me want one for my 2N, I am partial to small things and the ones they had on their large riding mowers looked perfect for my 2N. I am quite jealous of your machine. Does yours have the quick attach design for the entire loader? The new ones I was looking at could be removed with the push of 2 levers or something like that in a matter of minutes..

Very Jealous either way...

Yep,, quick attach
 
(quoted from post at 18:46:06 10/12/14)
Nutter teaser :twisted:

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LOL nice
I sure appreciate all the factory engineer farmerizations throughout history that has allowed us modern people to be able to play Superman!
........and with absolutely no effort on the operator end....impossible.
My grandson got his first drive of mine yesterday ( low range near idle, tightly supervised of course)
I even set it up at a loose dirt pile so he could play backhoe (kid ya know... I wanna use THAT lol)
He actually did pretty good with it, respectable hole.
fairly big kid, but he would struggle with full hand shovels of clay. Hundreds of pounds of dirt moved just like that with that Orange toy.
 
(quoted from post at 18:01:43 10/14/14)
Gotter done but not happy with the paint...

looks great
paint don't matter on stuff made to take the hits.
Your hood will stay nice and shiny!
and looka there, above or behind the screen, a nice place to add some serious firepower auxiliary lights.
 
(quoted from post at 08:43:18 10/15/14)
(quoted from post at 18:01:43 10/14/14)
Gotter done but not happy with the paint...

looks great
paint don't matter on stuff made to take the hits.
Your hood will stay nice and shiny!
and looka there, above or behind the screen, a nice place to add some serious firepower auxiliary lights.
ot the shinny hood paint that counts.....it is the radiator without a stick through it that counts. :cry:
 

I yanked it off to sandblast so I could redo the paint while painting the bush hog but it would not fit in my blast cabinet... Gotta get a bigger one :wink:
 

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