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The same customer gives us a very nice look at the unmatched Wicked tine design!! RAWR!
And a nice closeup of the lid with the Kubota glaring in the background.
The WICKED Root & Debris GRAPPLE!!!!!!!
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The same customer gives us a very nice look at the unmatched Wicked tine design!! RAWR!
And a nice closeup of the lid with the Kubota glaring in the background.
houser52
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Spend yesterday afternoon cleaning up blown down limbs across the pasture fence. The damage was due to the high winds we had here last week. The grapple sure makes it easier for that kind of cleanup... A lot easier than replacing posts and stringing new barbed wire.
Sorry but no pics this time.
Sorry but no pics this time.
OP
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Maybe next time! :thumbsup:
I just received this pic from Kevin in Texas. The caption simply reads: "Loving my Grapple!!"
He has a 50" Single Lid Wicked Grapple on his LS XJ2025 tractor with the LL2102 loader.
Travis
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Don't know how I managed for so long, trimming and hauling limbs at the homeplace, without a Wicked Grapple. Work around the house has become so much more enjoyable!
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IslandTractor
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Travis, are you telling us that that little bitty single jaw grapple saved the owner's back? Come on! Be realistic. He must have at least a 72" triple jaw grapple under that pile of brush. Stop making ridiculous marketing claims!
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He definitely gets it done with a 2538 Mahindra and a tiny 60" Single Wicked. I love these stump pulling pics he posted a while back!
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Now folks, I don't want to start an argument here 
but those pictures show exactly why a narrow grapple is best for digging out stumps and rocks. Note that he used the edge of the grapple to get under the stump. Note also that the edge of the grapple is outside the FEL arms which means there will be some extra twisting force on the FEL as he curls or lifts. It would have been worse with a 72" grapple but would have been better with a 48 or 50" grapple that would have lined up with the FEL arm. I'm not an engineer so cannot calculate the forces exactly but I'm pretty sure that you get more than just linear increases in twisting forces on the FEL as you lift with the edge of a grapple. Narrow is beautiful.
but those pictures show exactly why a narrow grapple is best for digging out stumps and rocks. Note that he used the edge of the grapple to get under the stump. Note also that the edge of the grapple is outside the FEL arms which means there will be some extra twisting force on the FEL as he curls or lifts. It would have been worse with a 72" grapple but would have been better with a 48 or 50" grapple that would have lined up with the FEL arm. I'm not an engineer so cannot calculate the forces exactly but I'm pretty sure that you get more than just linear increases in twisting forces on the FEL as you lift with the edge of a grapple. Narrow is beautiful.
Snowback
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A narrow single lid is also best for putting food in my belly!
I guess I might worry about twisting my loader too if I had a Kioti, but Mahindra's are pretty tough, so the extra few inches of grapple width on either side don't bother me at all.
(Sorry IT - you started it...) Now in terms of root and stump grubbing, I'd put a wicked grapple up against anything out there of similar overall size/shape. This thing is tough! At 60", it's only 6" wider on either side than a narrow 48", and grubbing stumps from the far tips is not a standard operating procedure. When I get on a real tough stump I always center it to make sure the forces are distributed properly.
