I leave all mine intact because there are employees that occasionally use my personal stuff. If one of them got hurt because I had bypassed a safety device it would be my butt in a sling.
But the seat one on my JD 3038E is sure a pain in the rear when I use the fork lift attachment. I tolerate it on all other operations ok, but with the fork lift the tines are in just the right position when I am picking up a pallet I have to raise up off the seat about 3 inches to see the end to the forks to get them to enter the pallet. Of course the engine dies instantly. That is one operation that makes me want to wire in a bypass switch so I can at least bypass it while doing that operation.
Got my new grapple in a while back and got it plumbed up to my tractor and loader. I saw Essup had a grapple on his loader bucket he had posted a long time ago and I have wanted one ever since. This is kind of a light built one but will serve my purposes just fine. It will fit my JD3038E (which it is more than heavy built enough) and has the lower set of quick tach pins so it will also fit my JD5083E tractor loader. I will have to be a little careful with it on the larger tractor but I have no problem doing that. The stuff on the farm that goes out and actually makes a living I have to be sure it will stand up to some abuse. Since I will be the only one using this, I tend to have a little better judgement about what something can take than some of my operators. As soon as it quits raining I have some tree trimming brush to move with it and will come back and edit this post and add some more pictures of it working.
