Before And After

Sure hope I have this goofy thing done before the cold sets in and the snow flies. :>(

Allan

Mahalo,
doogdoog

Looks good. Will it still be just as easy to get the loader on and off? Did you figure out anything better with the door from yesterday's discussion, or are you just going to hang a piece of tarp?

Don't feel like you are running late on anything...It is Nov 4 and I am getting ready to go outside and hook on to my baler... CRP hay, but it is better for my heifers than a snowbank..

I think for feeding cattle in the winter a cab tractor is a requirement. A Feb morning at 10 below with a 20mph wind, that cab will feel great!!

Hope the weather holds for you so you can get that project done. I am trying to get a fan bought for the Year Around Cab on my 856 now. that wil make it slightly warmer in it this winter.

Rob

I finally got that old rusted door hinge pulled apart this morning. Set the bottom up in the tractor thinking that maybe I could just bolt it up permanent and step over the thing.

However, after looking at it, I feel it would be better if I built a thick, flexable bottom half out of some heavy material I have. Would just make it easier to get in and out of that cab.

Still waiting on the local implement dealer. They are trying to find me the proper valve bank that will allow for two single acting and one double acting valves.

Right now I've got the grapple hooked into the tractor's hydraulic system. Just too darned slow! Gotta stay with the original PTO pump. :>)

Allan

As others have suggested a stack valve could be put together custom tailored to any configuration you need, also you could put a joystick operator on the valves for the lift and bucket cylinders. You could also use remote operator handles if you desired.

A quick and dirty way would be just add a valve to run the grapple. You would need to buy a 20 GPM 4 way open center power beyond valve with a builtin relief valve. You could plumb this valve inline upstream of the present valve. You would need to set the relief valve on this unit to provide system relief and crank down the present relief valve on the old valve unit so that it does not operate.

I gotta ask--you got that big barn behind you, but you're working out in the cold?

It was 23 when I went out there this morning. That's not bad at all. :>)

As long as there's no wind, I don't mind it. When the breeze comes up tho, it's kinda nasty.

Allan