It had been cut about a week.
Estimate the Weight of this log
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It had been cut about a week.
sd455dan
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I found some of the heavier than water wood the other day while removing an old Hawthorne
I could tell when the loader lifted it that it seemed a little heavy for such a small tree- anyway cut off 2 pieces one from the base and one from a ways up the tree and they both sank right to the bottom,
glad to be rid of this tree it is almost as thorny as my favorite tree/bush to hate (thorn apple)...
certain trees are definitely heavier than water.
I could tell when the loader lifted it that it seemed a little heavy for such a small tree- anyway cut off 2 pieces one from the base and one from a ways up the tree and they both sank right to the bottom,
glad to be rid of this tree it is almost as thorny as my favorite tree/bush to hate (thorn apple)...
certain trees are definitely heavier than water.
CJONE
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Hi Bullet, how has the grapple been doing for you? I didn't even want to ask in the other thread because it had ended up in a pissing match like so many other good threads do. I really like the design, but I need to have more opening like 40" for 3 reasons. 1 when loading wood by hand the lid is out of the way, 2 for grappling stumps and 8' logs you can get a bigger bite out of the pile, 3 you can use the unit as a rake with the lid out of the way. I also want to see if they will either build me the parts or the whole grapple as a HD 50" model. 400-500lbs would not bother me as I am basically the same lift capacity as you but I like the narrow grapple to get through the woods better. Anyway just curious on how it has been doing? Thanks. CJ
The grapple is doing great. I highly recommend it to anyone with a compact considering a grapple. I have dug out several small stumps with it and a few large ones. The bigger stumps that I have dug out with it were up rooted by a storm. I think in most cases if you need grapple to handle a stump that is larger than 30'' your tractor probably will not handle it. Most of the time big stumps have a lot of dirt on them and they are very heavy. If you have a decent sized pile of firewood the grapple does pretty good at moving it. If you have a small pile you are better off to load the grapple by hand.
