skew
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Yep standard strap in front and the rear lock is the hydraulic one. It is acuated when the outriggers come up. The bummer can be if you don't have the outriggers down far enough say on sidehill setup you have to put the out riggers down further than you want to get a level set-up. What I have done before is to get them down enough to raise the boom and raise it a little and then pull up theoutrigger. But the other thing about this unit is you can lower the outriggers until the front wheels come about a foot and a half off the ground. I carry a bunch of cribbing on the truck and have been able to do some extreme setups by stacking cribbing under the wheels and then easing the truck back down on it. The point being to hopefully keep the truck from teetering. And I am sorry but I do not yet have the capacity for posting fotos. The lock's hoses are inside the chip box. My buddy up in Denver just got the same unit and I suggested to him just a motorcycle tie down or some such and hook it onto the little steel ring on the back of the box- over the boom and back to the ring and cinch it. It looks a little jinky for a spendy rig like this but would beat the wear and tear of bouncy boom. If I recall correctly this option cost me abot 2k. I thought it was quite dear but that was something that I always noticed about my old high ranger was how bad the boom bounced during transit.And for the record my dear Mr. Skwirrel- I am the only operator of my bucket and I am quite trustworthy and am not lazy and am the one who makes the "mortgage" on this beast every month so I treat her with the utmost reverence that she deserves.
