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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SkidRoe" data-source="post: 46409" data-attributes="member: 3290">The bucket got christened yesterday.  My sister and her husband are building a retaining wall on the edge of their property.  I used it to break up some hard pan, sift out some rocks and rip out three medium sized tree stumps.  This thing is really proving itself to be the swiss army knife of buckets.  The Zamboni blade really slices through tree roots.I did have a mishap though.  While using the grapple teeth as a ripper, the grapple arm popped over centre, mainly because the main grapple tube was flexing.  This was something that I was afraid would happen.  I managed to kill 3 birds with one stone, by adding an additional crossmember and some bracing to the grapple frame:<img src="http://i851.photobucket.com/albums/ab73/SkidRoe/Home%20Made%20Grapple%20Bucket/BobcatGrapple022.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 620px; height: 465px" />Not only does the crossmember add more support, if it does try to pop over centre, it will make a hard stop against the base of the cylinder.  It also helps to guard the cylinder from the load in the bucketCheers,SR</blockquote>