Little By Little:

Finally this year I was able to get the grappler on the tractor with the help of the mechanic that serviced the tractor. Last year it was impossible as I just couldn't get the hoses connected. 

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We are getting trees in front of our house in the ditch area that the road crew pushed over when they came down in one of the major wind storms we have had. The trees are well dried out and we pull them up on the road, grab them with the grappler and bring them up where we can again use the grappler to lift them to waist high and cut them to length. 

The splitter is only a few feet away so we split them and load them in the trailer and haul them to the wood shed where they are stored until next winter.