Rich_Z
Silver Member
So I have been looking for a grapple for the TYM T474 I just ordered, not sure what type, brand, size, etc, I wanted. Just watching YouTube videos to see what would catch my eye. Well one did catch my eye. The EA Everything Attachments WICKED 55 Root Rake Grapple. The videos I watched showed it as being pretty capable and I was thinking that one was IT. But I just happened to catch a newer video of this product, that was posted just 12 days ago on July 28, 2023 talking about improvements. So of course I felt that would be worth watching to see what those improvements might be that I would likely get on the product I would receive.
Well, I watched it twice. Then again. Something was nagging me. Finally I saw what it was. Right around the 3:30 time mark, I saw that the hydraulic hoses on the bottom tines of the grapple were simply routed through those laser cut holes in the tines and the connection points to the driver's side just out in the open. Maybe I am not seeing this correctly, but it seems to me those hoses and those connection points are exposed to damage by material being grasped by that grapple. All it would take is a stub branch on a log of anything sharp in debris being picked up to puncture, slice, or rip those hoses. Or just shear them in two when caught between debris and the edges of those cut holes. Or perhaps even just knock off the fittings at the exposed ends of those hoses. I took some screen captures of what I am referring to that I will provide below.
I sent a message to Everything Attachments asking about this for clarification, but have not received a response. So I figured I would come here hoping that someone will straighten me out in that perhaps this is a non issue and I am just looking at it wrong. Yeah, I am a kind of Murphy's Law kind of guy, expecting that whatever CAN go wrong, WILL go wrong.
Well, I watched it twice. Then again. Something was nagging me. Finally I saw what it was. Right around the 3:30 time mark, I saw that the hydraulic hoses on the bottom tines of the grapple were simply routed through those laser cut holes in the tines and the connection points to the driver's side just out in the open. Maybe I am not seeing this correctly, but it seems to me those hoses and those connection points are exposed to damage by material being grasped by that grapple. All it would take is a stub branch on a log of anything sharp in debris being picked up to puncture, slice, or rip those hoses. Or just shear them in two when caught between debris and the edges of those cut holes. Or perhaps even just knock off the fittings at the exposed ends of those hoses. I took some screen captures of what I am referring to that I will provide below.
I sent a message to Everything Attachments asking about this for clarification, but have not received a response. So I figured I would come here hoping that someone will straighten me out in that perhaps this is a non issue and I am just looking at it wrong. Yeah, I am a kind of Murphy's Law kind of guy, expecting that whatever CAN go wrong, WILL go wrong.