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<blockquote data-quote="Hotrod1830" data-source="post: 65502" data-attributes="member: 4331"><p>Heres the next project on the list. A grapple conversion. It started life as a OE bobcat 40" bucket that came on the 310. The prior owners tried to fix a cracked bucket by welding on a 1" piece of plate. At some point it had forks welded to it as well. They cut those off. I had to do a little bit of surgery and was able to salvage it. I cut the old cutting edge off and welded on a piece of 3/8"x6" plate, and fabbed some teeth out of the same stock. I cut off the top "lip" and welded in a piece of 2"x1/4" square tubing to mount the grapple to.. The round tubing is 1 1/2" roll bar tubing I had laying around. Bent with a Cheap Harbor frieght bender. The hinges are 3/4" round bar and 3/4" i.d. DOM tubing. Besides the hoses being too short, it works pretty good. Soon as I get some longer hoses, its time to clean out all the junk in the woods.</p><p> Enjoy!</p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc102/bigblocknotch/grap1_zps8526a074.jpg" alt=" photo grap1_zps8526a074.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 884px; height: 663px" /></p><p><img src="http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc102/bigblocknotch/grap3_zpsc61c0f9b.jpg" alt=" photo grap3_zpsc61c0f9b.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 884px; height: 663px" /></p><p><img src="http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc102/bigblocknotch/grap2_zps9ce1f8bf.jpg" alt=" photo grap2_zps9ce1f8bf.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 884px; height: 663px" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hotrod1830, post: 65502, member: 4331"] Heres the next project on the list. A grapple conversion. It started life as a OE bobcat 40“ bucket that came on the 310. The prior owners tried to fix a cracked bucket by welding on a 1“ piece of plate. At some point it had forks welded to it as well. They cut those off. I had to do a little bit of surgery and was able to salvage it. I cut the old cutting edge off and welded on a piece of 3/8“x6” plate, and fabbed some teeth out of the same stock. I cut off the top “lip“ and welded in a piece of 2“x1/4“ square tubing to mount the grapple to.. The round tubing is 1 1/2“ roll bar tubing I had laying around. Bent with a Cheap Harbor frieght bender. The hinges are 3/4“ round bar and 3/4“ i.d. DOM tubing. Besides the hoses being too short, it works pretty good. Soon as I get some longer hoses, its time to clean out all the junk in the woods. Enjoy! [IMG width="884px" height="663px" alt=" photo grap1_zps8526a074.jpg"]http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc102/bigblocknotch/grap1_zps8526a074.jpg[/IMG] [IMG width="884px" height="663px" alt=" photo grap3_zpsc61c0f9b.jpg"]http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc102/bigblocknotch/grap3_zpsc61c0f9b.jpg[/IMG] [IMG width="884px" height="663px" alt=" photo grap2_zps9ce1f8bf.jpg"]http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc102/bigblocknotch/grap2_zps9ce1f8bf.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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