Piranah bar kicks arse.....

[jkh62]

After a delay in getting my piranha bar and mother nature making a swamp of my work area I was finally able to start getting some outside work done.
The property behind me is a mess bordering where I want to run new fence. I have some trees to drop and dig out stumps. It has piles of hard head rocks from prior farm land use and lots of dumping mixed in scrub brush with some trophy sized poison ivy.

The piranha bar makes QUICK work of all of it. I put a couple sold hours in the seat of my Kubota BX23S and really started to put a dent in the clearing. If you raise the bucket a few inches and push the brush forward and raise or tip the bucket you can pull most things out by its roots. Small saplings just shine up the bar and I tackled a couple small trees that came right out.

I have another 100 yards to go........

Kudos to Bx for making a VERY useful attachment.

Little tractor / lots of guts~

Nice clumps~

Now I can get at the trees to come down / ground level and need it to dry out to grade it ~

 

[BRMyers]

Looks like it does a really nice job.

 

[jkh62]

Looks like it does a really nice job.

It really does and saved me a LOT of work and adds versatility to the loader.
Granted its not a grapple and its just another tool in the tool box but for the cost, simplicity and function its hard to beat, IMHO.

Now I need a front mounted flame thrower for lighting the pile on fire................

 

[BRMyers]

Well you might be able to rig this up to meet your needs:

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[YLee Kioti]

The PTB will also help when ripping our thorny vines that are choking trees.
Once it grabs the vines it'll rip out the higher ones, they are pretty tough but the FEL with PTB will get it done.
Great tool. Nice job of ripping out the gar-bahg vegetation..!

 

[drizler]

The PTB will also help when ripping our thorny vines that are choking trees.
Once it grabs the vines it'll rip out the higher ones, they are pretty tough but the FEL with PTB will get it done.
Great tool. Nice job of ripping out the gar-bahg vegetation..!

It makes a nice backdrag rake too . The only issues i have with brush is that the springy stuff just bends over even with the blades edge being so sharp.

 

[jkh62]

Well you might be able to rig this up to meet your needs:

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I would love to use that to get the leaves while still in the trees............

 

[crashz]

Love the Piranha. I refuse to take it off of my bucket!

Took down a widow maker yesterday with the help of the tooth bar. It allowed me to "grab" the end that was on the ground, lift and pull it out of the remaining part of the tree. No climbing, chain saw damage or injury needed.

An hour later I was using it to move rocks and grade up the customers road. All around awesome tool!

 

[jkh62]

I did put a small ding in my hood...........grrrrr.
I was pushing some brush and kicked lose a hanging dead branch that missed my head, skipped off the roll bar and hit the hood.

Ready for battle and round #2 with a full tank of fuel.

 

[RoyKing]

A piranha bar and a thumb and you can do most of what grapple can do. I love my bar, was impressed when it pulled 5 to 6" dia pines right out of the ground. Soon as I get my camera mounted so I can see bucket edge going to try and pull small trees next to buildings

 

[biodegraded]

Piranha vs blackberries.

 

[jkh62]

Great way to pick berries!
I need bucket hooks............

 

[wassup8687]

I've had mine for a year and I love it. I was moving dirt a couple weeks ago and hadn't yet used the bucket since winter so the PTB wasn't on. I wasn't getting full buckets so then I remembered the PTB. All I can say is wow. Full buckets after the install.

 

[jkh62]

I finished clearing about 100 yards of total crap. Saplings, rocks, people that dumped bushes and yard waste all on a foot and a half bed of poison ivy with vines tangled in the mess. It's all ground level bare dirt and I have just a little poison I ivy on my arms above my gloves.

The ripper bar really performed well and my biggest sapling pulled out was around 3".
The middle teeth have a closer set and if you take a run at the tree with the bucket about 3 or 4 feet high it grabs it solid and pulls it out by the roots.

 

[RoyKing]

I preferred bucket at ground level, stab the tree then curl and raise I've pulled 5/6 inch pines tap root pops out of the clay

 

[Mtnmnstr]

Before I saw all the talk here, I ordered mine Friday. I was hoping to get in before this weekend. I have 4 day off. I call Bxpanded to verify my order was accepted and complete. She quoted me 3 to 4 weeks.

 

[BRMyers]

Before I saw all the talk here, I ordered mine Friday. I was hoping to get in before this weekend. I have 4 day off. I call Bxpanded to verify my order was accepted and complete. She quoted me 3 to 4 weeks.

What I have been reading, most orders seem to be taking about two months before they arrive, yet everyone is saying they are well worth the wait.

 

[shooterdon]

I used mine for a couple of hours yesterday and it worked well for clearing saplings up to 2" diameter. So much easier than a grubber. Can stay in my AC cab and not work up a sweat, no more getting on and off, and no bugs to deal with.

 

[Mtnmnstr]

I used mine for a couple of hours yesterday and it worked well for clearing saplings up to 2" diameter. So much easier than a grubber. Can stay in my AC cab and not work up a sweat, no more getting on and off, and no bugs to deal with.

What have you found to be yur limit?