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How to add grapples to backhoes, excavators, boom trucks and grapple trucks.

Example of grapple used on mini-excavator, and Gradall Loader        

Hook up to the bucket curl cylinder and to the thumb circuits.

The  grapple can be hooked to the bucket curl cylinder hook ups   for opening and closing the grapple and to the thumb cylinder hook ups for the rotation. To make switches easier, the operator might choose to equip the excavator and   the hoses to the grapple  with hydraulic quick hitch couplers. To facilitate the hydraulic quick couplers, the hoses are equipped with ends  that  have 1/2" NPT thread.

Hook up to one circuit only, dividing the oil flow in two with a divereter solenoid.

In this case, the operator has a switch in the cab from which to choose to send the oil either to the grapple or the rotator. The oil flow is then started by moving the hydraulic lever that engages the circuit. The control box in the cab is hooked to 12V DC and a electric wire runs to the diverter solenoid which is mounted to the quick coupler frame. The wire  has a detach socket and the oil hoses are ready to have hydraulic quick couplers installed.

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