Grapple Rake
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Robbie Hegwood
Platinum Member
Best attachment you'll ever buy, wont know how you lived without it. But buy a good and beefy one. I have a bradco and payed for it but I have bent the very thick tines already. I use mine atleast every other job.
Terra Firma Scott
Silver Member
Dont think about it...Do IT...
I dont know how I got anything done without one...I thought all i would need was a bucket.lots of wasted time jumping out ,loading the bucket with debris,rocks,concrete,lumber and limbs etc.....Very useful tool for the tracked machine..sit,-drive,grab,move,dump,rake-done....
I demo'd a 72" root rake and ended up with a 60"..more control,lighter and just as strong...The top clamp is a single 50" with single 2 inch cylinder..No problems thus far, 1" steel rake tines-I see alot of double top clamp rakes with larger cylinders but wonder if it is overkill...Amazing the strength of the top clamp....I was able to use the rake to uproot 12" stumps and rootballs,clamp down and yank the whole mess out of the ground roots and all......shake out the soil and stack it for later or take it right to the burn pile..I dont have ten acres but have used that rake on all 6 acres of mine...
yep, listen to Robbie...
I dont know how I got anything done without one...I thought all i would need was a bucket.lots of wasted time jumping out ,loading the bucket with debris,rocks,concrete,lumber and limbs etc.....Very useful tool for the tracked machine..sit,-drive,grab,move,dump,rake-done....
I demo'd a 72" root rake and ended up with a 60"..more control,lighter and just as strong...The top clamp is a single 50" with single 2 inch cylinder..No problems thus far, 1" steel rake tines-I see alot of double top clamp rakes with larger cylinders but wonder if it is overkill...Amazing the strength of the top clamp....I was able to use the rake to uproot 12" stumps and rootballs,clamp down and yank the whole mess out of the ground roots and all......shake out the soil and stack it for later or take it right to the burn pile..I dont have ten acres but have used that rake on all 6 acres of mine...
yep, listen to Robbie...
The one I'm looking at is being auctioned off this Saturday. It is an '06 and doesn't look used. It is made by JRW Enterises in Canada, and the quality is probably not the kind that Terra Firma Scott describes. A grapple rake just seems like a better concept than the 4-in-1 for serious grubbing.
jmf
jmf
QwikDraw
Platinum Member
I have a Bradco also, the second best attachment I have.
QwikDraw
Platinum Member
It took a few sets of hoses getting pinched before I rigged them through a stiff hose and solved the problem. When the hydraulic hose guy knows your name you know you pinch too many hoses!
