Concrete cracks its just what it does :) bridge sounds cool if you can make it handy enough that you use it. Why not just buy two 3/4" steel plates? You could just leave them in the bottom of the truck when not needed. Well unless your truck dumps I'm thinking about my rear mount loader. Would...
Best bet would be to try and find some one to come inspect it before you buy it.... Would suck for you to get it home and it need a lot of work.. And you have to put another 20k in the boom to get it certified
Underpowered is all depending on who's driving, if you want to hold speed up hill it's underpowered if you want to get to and from work and not worried if you slow down it will work my grapple truck is tagged 65,000lb and is only 280 hp it's slow up hill or on a Windy day but it works I won't...
Connect under pressure fittings are not worth the costs from my experience not much better at all you need to neutralize the pressure after you turn machine off before disconnecting and you won't have as much trouble sit the grapple how it will stay till you use it again and kill machine then...