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So I installed my first "accessory" on the new-to-me L3901... a Right-side Fender Grip (handle). Helpful for an old guy like me climbing on.
Next up is gonna be something to help with picking up piles of cut branches, logs, and brush to move to the burn pile. I had been thinking grapple, but that would cost several thousand including adding the 3rd function hydraulics. Then I started considering that pallet forks might be about as useful as the grapple for that task, plus would be additionally useful for just picking up and moving other heavy stuff. Searching this thread I found these posts.. Any more thoughts/comments on the pallet fork idea?

 

Forks are great on a tractor, I wouldn’t recommend the ones that clamp on the bucket though.

 

I agree with @six5crèéd I would stay away from the clamp to bucket forks. I got a set of forks from Titan and have been happy. I find them very useful. I also don’t have the third function and so I stayed away from the grapple for that reason

 

This is what I've got, and they have served me well.

$690 Titan Attachments 46" Pallet Fork Frame Attachment with 42" Fork Blades Skid Steer Quick Tach

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AO6XLJM
Edit: They also have a 48" version. I might go that way if I were doing it over again

$705 Titan Attachments 48-in Skid Steer Pallet Fork Frame Attachment, 48" Fork Blades, Rate 4000 LB, Quick Tach Tractor

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0176RNFME

Or these https://www.ebay.com/itm/1157822988...ar=415850137681&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

NOTE: you don't need a 3rd function for the grapple. Look at mine. It's all mechanical/gravity. Love it! Affordable, QA ready & good up to 2500lbs! Check it out. Brushcrusher.com

This is what I do currently with my chains....

Good set of QA forks like he posted or get a good set local to you. Don't waste time with clamp ones.
They are fine for tiny stuff. NOT safe for the kind of things you are gonna lift with that 3901. Stay safe! & Same to you: look at my grapple. No hydro's needed!! Not expensive & QA. Brushcrusher 4200.

 

Wow! What a hot mess! That generator motor distructed with extreme prejudice!

I'll send out more pics after I get it pulled apart more.

 

Yikes! Is this the Generac you just put back in service??

 

You shouldn’t have started the dryer, it was more than it could handle

 

Did you hear it let go or just came out to find it dead?

 

I heard it.

Doing it's normal weekly test, then clank, clank, silence.

 

Looking at the 48" one that

$705 Titan Attachments 48-in Skid Steer Pallet Fork Frame Attachment, 48" Fork Blades, Rate 4000 LB, Quick Tach Tractor

you linked ($705)
and

$810 Titan Attachments UA USA Made Orange Pallet Fork Frame Attachment, 48†Fork Blades, Rated 4000 LB

this one for $810,
is the only difference that the orange one is USA made?
Is your 42" USA made or (gasp) Chinese?

 

Be sure to look at titan attachments.... Always good quality, usually free shipping.

I'm running a set of CID Extremest. They were about 750 at my local farm store.

 

I'm pretty sure mine is chinese made.

 

But the two do look the same to you, other than color? I don't see any other difference.

 

The orange USA model has a 2" receiver in the middle. That could be useful for moving trailers and such around.

 

Doh!! Plainly visible in the pictures (when you know what you're looking for!).
Thanks

 

This was the original motor. The new motor is in place...hopefully I can get 20 years out of it.

 

I do have to admit, it's kind of embarrassing.

I make my side gig money fixing ZT mowers.

The ZT mowers and generators use very similar power plants.

I push for customers to keep up on maintenance, yet I couldn't keep this unit running proper past 139 hours and I changed oil and adjusted valves every year.

Pathetic.

It upsets me a bit.

 

Why not?