How to operate a Grapple 

Hope it helped...🤙🤙

And you'd absolutely correct, they are ass-backwards from everything you know!!!

Running a excavator, or as how they're called pretty much everywhere a track-hoe or hoe for short lol. I operate using the SAE pattern & not to brag or anything but lol I'm a grade A hoe operator lol not the best by any means but I know what I'm doing. I can half ass operate with the ISO pattern but it looks like someone green operating lol

My favorite thing to operate is a Dozer & have been told many times "not saying you're not good on a hoe, but you shine on a Dozer. My brother always hears the opposite. Alot of operators, superintendents & PMs considered him I've one of the best hoe operators where we live in southeast TX & Southwest LAST

I just started getting my crane certs, and that's an animal all to itself!! But I'll be back working in Western Louisiana here in the near future, if you get involved in storm cleanup, let me know, we always need good operators!!! (Skid-steer w/grapple, bucket-truck, crane, mini-excavator w/thumb, CDL)

You can switch the lines around to set the controls like you want

Depends if it has extention, 15' to 20'. But it's been a while since I've gotten to play on one...

Ok hardass

I loved it!! You get a good ground man, then you can stay in the tower till your loaded...

Ooh man , you get a ground man ? Your spoiled ..😂 Them bumps over the bridges and the big pot holes ,don't hurt ya at the end of the long weeks ? Maybe it was that truck

Best thing you can do, is trace your hoses for leaks, once you get on top of your leaks, make sure your running your system high enough (10-11 RPM)... If your out riggers aren't holding, you might have a bad check valve (that's another video in itself), which isn't that bad, just get to know your machine, and once you get one top of things, life becomes a lot simpler...

When you say, "down hard," are you lifting the truck off the suspension (with your outriggers)?? Make sure the rear (truck) is up and level, you have to be level and completely off the trucks suspension. Both of those are important. Because the only time I've had this problem, is while unloading, and that's just because I picked a lot of weight out of my box, and as I was swinging out to dump (very fast, because I had a double-pump system), the momentum starts pulling me over. And I was setting it nicely down, so the excavator could reach it (at the dump). But normally, normally (without seeing your setup), the system just won't pick-up the load, like huge stumps for example. Hope this helps....

Hopefully you see this Brandon Kelsey I just bought a mid mount elite 80 as I reach out the other side comes off the ground with just the weight of the loader like your situation! Did you find a fix? Thank you!

@@caseybarnes2743 I read where he said to put outriggers down and pick up trucks suspension

@@caseybarnes2743 no I haven’t

Join a couple fb groups, storm work, and Grapple truck mafia...

No, I'm back in the oilfields, but their a great company.