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Do you mean why not but a bucket and a grapple ?

I think I get your message, something like don't modify the 3 spool valve ? Probably best at this point if I make a bucket and at least a grapple so I can use it, them decide if it's worth changing.

So worst case, I use the 3rd function to operate a grapple or something else with a separate lever. Or I adapt solenoid coils that are on electric valves to my 3rd spool ?

Thanks Dan. Sometimes I feel like a nuisance asking too many questions. Like I've got to have made a certain amount of progress before I qualify.

It's looking like I would have been better to ask here rather than at my local hydraulic shop. With an electric 3rd function valve, would it be operated from a switch on the joystick handle ? I'll Google 3rd function electric valves, then might have more questions if that's ok.

Haha, thanks Dan, interesting question. I like to make things and I have plenty of time. Sometimes I might save a lot of money doing it, sometimes I might not save any. I'm new to tractors so don't know exactly what will be useful from experience, just going by what I've read in spots like...

Thanks Hugo, I'll give that a try.

This afternoon I tested the loader lifting a load. I still don't have a bucket so I strapped increasing numbers of concrete sleepers to the SSQA frame. I also don't have any rear ballast yet so I only lifted about 2 feet - not far back to the ground if I needed to hit the down arrow. Having...

Thanks Dan. Makes sense.

Don't know about the simultaneous flow, I guess I can check by operating both the raise/lower and curl/dump levers together and see if both things move ? I saw what looked like a pretty neat and tidy joystick setup in a Ask Tractor Mike video and thought I might try to copy it - see pic below...

Some of the things I make because I think I'll need them. Other times it's because I wonder if I can. I've zoomed in on a couple of videos of joystick valve mechanisms - wondering if I can turn my two levers into one. I have a three spool valve (grapple, 4 in 1 bucket....) so the 3rd will still...

Thanks. Yeah, dodgy operator. Planning on the level bottom of the bucket being able to be about 4" below ground level. Haha - I'll be turning the valve into a joystick control for the raise/lower and curl/dump to try to help avoid tipping the load on myself.

It appears to work - I'm happy with that so far. Many thanks to everyone who has commented and offered advice so far. I haven't made a bucket or any other attachments yet so can't use it, but I might try and see how close it can get to the rated lift capacity for a B7200. Edit: Just used the...

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Thanks Dan, mine are 3/8 BSP

Thanks Dan. Do you know if that pressure relief unloader is sufficient to protect the pump if the pump outlet is closed ? I'll also have the tank return from the loader valve go back to the transmission filler. It was originally just a filler cap, so I've replaced it with a tee - filler cap on...

Help understanding hydraulic block connections.... I think I've got the hydraulic selector block connections sorted (from Kubota manuals) for connection to the loader tomorrow, but I don't understand a couple of the lines on the hydraulic block. In the attached pic, my understanding is: 1 -...

Thanks. I've only measured the OD of the main lines on the tractor as follows: - Main steel line from selector block to the back (to 3 pl controls ?) 12.0 mm - possibly 3/8" ID - yellow arrow in pics - Main steel line from bottom of tank to pump (main suction line ?) 19.2 mm - ID ? - red arrow...

Many thanks ProTreeBoy. When you say "the main lines", do you mean the line from the hydraulic block to the valve and the line from the valve power beyond port back to the valve ? And thanks for the link to the sizing chart.

Many thanks Barts. Did you also build your own loader ?