You certainly don't need them, they are really nice to have and I won't be without them from now on, however, if I never had hydraulic scarifiers in the first place, I wouldn't know how nice they are :laughing: I think the next best thing would be a manual lever where you can lower and raise the scarifires from the seat.
I think it also depends on how often you think you would raise and lower them, if it's long runs where you rarely get off the tractor to change the setup, then you won't miss them. I do a lot of 'woods work' where I will lower them for only 10' or so then back up and scrape over the top with them raised. Sometimes I will lower the scarifiers when cleaning up branches and random debris to use them almost like a rake, to get the big stuff out of there, then back up and grade without them. This is when it's nice to be able to raise and lower from the seat.
If you have Top N Tilt, you would need at least 3 rear remotes, 2 for top n tilt and one for the scarifiers. If you can only have two rear remotes, skip the hydraulic scarifiers. The Top N Tilt is 10 times more useful, of course, the 3 together is the cat's meow.
Good Choice :thumbsup:
I have only the side link right now, and have already sent my order for the top link. I couldn't swing the whole enchilada at one time, so I ordered them seperately. I hate having to get off to adjust my toplink, so I can't wait for the cylinder to arrive. However, I also don't have to adjust my top link as often as many box bladers, because I have a hinged box blade, not fixed. (unless I bolt it fixed which can be helpful too)
I can lift the rears (or at least one of them) in pretty much ideal (or should I say the worst?) circumstances. I am just about at the balance point with weight, in other words it wouldn't take much more weight to get me to the point where my relief would go before the rears came off the ground.
My lift capacity with the LA852 loader is:
Lift capacity ... 1830 LB
Lift capacity (pivot pin) ... 2470 LB
Lift capacity (bucket center)... 1875 LB
Breakout force ... 3055 LB
I have about 50 gallons of Rimguard in each tire, so at roughly 11 lbs per gallon, that would make it an extra 1100 pounds.
I think I lied to you! I just looked back for the picture of me just barely lifting the rears off the ground, and I thought I had the box blade on the back of it when I did this, but I was wrong, I had the landscape rake which is of course barely anything compared to the box blade. I threw in a couple extra grapple pics for you as well.