Everything Attachments Wicked Grapple Build

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It's possible that being spring/ early summer they are just too busy to work out all the details. I would expect to hear more about this in the fall or early winter.
 
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Yea, it's on the far back burner because we're doing our best to keep up with orders as it is. Something new like this would take a tremendous amount of time and planning to do it right. It would also require someone on the phone constantly for customer service/troubleshooting/assistance with the kits.
Travis
 
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I made a video of the tractor/grapple in action. It is not the best quality since I used my phone to make it.

 
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Gooder-un! :D :thumbsup:
 
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I made a video of the tractor/grapple in action.

Roger,

A thing you might try when you have a lot of brush or limbs to move is to make large piles, maybe 2 or 3 times the size that you think the grapple could ever get its jaws around. Then, instead of just clamping down on a big bite, or compressing straight down on the pile before the bite, try rolling the whole pile forward, or backward, or both, while keeping a little down pressure on the pile. This rolls the oversized pile up tightly, breaking the side limbs that keep it fluffy. End result is you get most or all of that large pile in one trip, and a bonus of more limbs into each truckload, if you're hauling it.

Sorry of you already knew that and were just prolonging your entertainment!

John
 
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John,
Whether he knew or not, good tip for those of us that didn't. Thanks!
 
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Gooder-un! :D :thumbsup:

Thanks.

Roger,

A thing you might try when you have a lot of brush or limbs to move is to make large piles, maybe 2 or 3 times the size that you think the grapple could ever get its jaws around. Then, instead of just clamping down on a big bite, or compressing straight down on the pile before the bite, try rolling the whole pile forward, or backward, or both, while keeping a little down pressure on the pile. This rolls the oversized pile up tightly, breaking the side limbs that keep it fluffy. End result is you get most or all of that large pile in one trip, and a bonus of more limbs into each truckload, if you're hauling it.

Sorry of you already knew that and were just prolonging your entertainment!

John

I could not get into this brush easily to make 1 pile. When I have a big pile I push into it as hard as I can to get a bite. That is what I did here.

(I already posted this pic in this thread)


I pushed out 4 trees with the tractor and took cut down 2 there. I also cut a few big limbs off some trees and worked the up there. This was just a little bit of what was left from the limbs and a a couple of tops.

Here are the trees I took out





Stumps







 
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Looks good Roger! I'm assuming that life is better with a grapple.
 
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