I understand its bad for the loader hydraulics to pull on a tree with a grapple, but is pushing a tree with the lower tines of a grapple basically the same as pushing a tree with a bucket? Any danger to the loader hydraulics for this type of maneuver? Thanks.
I think so. If you can keep the bucket low and push it might not be that bad but then you don't get much leverage. You have to lift the bucket which extends the hydraulics and makes them vulnerable. At least that is how I understand it.
Well, if that first picture isn't staged I don't know what is. Somebody dumped a pile of asphalt in an open field and snapped a shot thinking no one would notice.
I will say I kind of like the raw look of the unpainted grapple. If it weren't for rust I'd prefer to have mine that way. At a discount of course. Paint and labor savings.
Pinnacle series? Define "working the jeebuz out of it." I find people's definitions very subjective.
Nah, not staged, dude! I'll look for the video footage. lol
I will say I kind of like the raw look of the unpainted grapple. If it weren't for rust I'd prefer to have mine that way. At a discount of course. Paint and labor savings.
I dunno. Those are awfully neat rows of asphalt. Grapples can do that? I don't see the angles on the grapple to do that. Just sayin. The picture just strikes me as odd at first sight. Something just isn't right.
Not staged, but it was a pile of already broken asphalt, and he was dozing through and raking with all of the tractor's weight on the lid.
My Kioti dealer was selling HLA grapples. I forget what they quoted me but it was for an older model.
There is an old saying that I have found to ring true, "Buy the best, you only cry once". I have never regretted buying a very good tool, I have regretted and re-bought inferior ones. When that happens there is no savings in $ and lots of frustration that could be avoided. A purchase that will last you a life time mat well be worth the wait, as you may want to live with it for a life time!
Probably true in most circumstances. I have to consider what the delay means for getting jobs done that need to be done now or at least soon. Paying someone is one option. Renting equipment is another. In the end both leave me with a job done but nothing to use for future projects or simply resell. Now, buying an 'inferior' product, which is a subjective determination, would allow me to get the job done sooner and I would have a piece of equipment I can continue to use until the 'premium' equipment comes in. Once that happens I can resell the current equipment. I won't get the same price as new but the work I get done is going to be worth more than what I will lose out when reselling. Of course I could end up beating the crap out of my 'inferior' product where no one wants to buy it but I suspect there is always someone with the resources to restore it to a condition that meets their needs.
Very true.
