Grappling fun - A Picture Thread....

4570Man · May 11, 2018

I’m guessing the bucket weighs closer to 300 pounds. A 600 pound grapple for that size machine is a little heavy. With a properly sized grapple the weight difference isn’t substantial. And the loader is good for a lot more than 1100 pounds a couple feet high. The breakout force is pretty close to the ground level lift.

homesteader13 · May 13, 2018

Exactly what I do you took the words out of my mouth.

Xfaxman · May 13, 2018

homesteader13 said:
Exactly what I do

What is exactly what you do?

you took the words out of my mouth.

What words?

I can't relate your post to any previous recent post. Please explain.

goeduck · May 13, 2018

Xfaxman said:
What words?

The ones you took out of his mouth

Sorry, could not resist.

scaredychicken · May 13, 2018

Is that Everything Attachments 55" grapple available in BC Canada ? Shipping and Duty really bothers me for a single item. Not worth that extra expense, so I think I'd prefer getting via Kubota somehow where they can order a whole container of things.

goeduck · May 13, 2018

scaredychicken said:
Is that Everything Attachments 55" grapple available in BC Canada ? Shipping and Duty really bothers me for a single item. Not worth that extra expense, so I think I'd prefer getting via Kubota somehow where they can order a whole container of things.

What would you end up paying? I assume you are talking about the EA 55” rake grapple?

scaredychicken · May 14, 2018

goeduck said:
What would you end up paying? I assume you are talking about the EA 55” rake grapple?

yes, that's the one. still checking for quotes, so I'm not sure yet

Xfaxman · May 14, 2018

Xfaxman said:
homesteader13 said:

you took the words out of my mouth.

Click to expand...

What words?

I can't relate your post to any previous recent post. Please explain.

goeduck said:
The ones you took out of his mouth

Sorry, could not resist.

:laughing: Gooder-un :thumbsup:

ch47dpilot · May 16, 2018

Teachu2 said:
209 lbs, works great! Best Rated 55 Inch Wicked Root Rake Grapple from Everything Attachments View attachment 553847 View attachment 553848

I suspect your bucket is more than 100 lbs. I think my 60" is about 220....

I really liked the Wicked 55" mainly cause of weight. I'm new to using a root rake grapple so excuse my ignorance. I've seen two main versions. The first is like the wicked and looks like its best for "grabbing" a pile of brush. The other kind has tines that are parallel to the ground and seam to work better at "scooping" up brush. How well does the wicked work for scooping up brush. I'm clearing my land with a dozer and root rake but will need to do the fine clean-up with my tractor. I plan to use my landscape rake and a grapple.

goeduck · May 17, 2018

The first type is often called a Rake Grapple, the second type is often called an L Grapple. I have both. I generally use the L grapple since it carries a lot of brush and debris as well as it is better all around for me. Ie carries more firewood, digs deeper, etc. The rake style I mostly use as a rake, often back raking, mine carries relatively little brush and even only one decent size log. The Rake style that EA has out has better lower teeth and looks to close the gap a little volume wise. Different grapples are going to change the dynamics of what you can lift and your mileage may vary.

Piston · Jun 24, 2018

I pulled this old smoke dragon out of my basement the other day....

The hardest part was moving it from it's original location to out the basement door, after that the grapple made easy work of it

I find that I end up using my grapple almost as much for these 'unique' one off jobs that I never anticipated, than I do for the more standard jobs I had planned for it, like land clearing and brush.

I'm not sure if I should send the woodstove to the scrap yard, or cut the top off it and make an evaporator for my maple syrup.

case580c · Jun 24, 2018

Piston said:
I pulled this old smoke dragon out of my basement the other day....
View attachment 559866 View attachment 559867

The hardest part was moving it from it's original location to out the basement door, after that the grapple made easy work of it
I find that I end up using my grapple almost as much for these 'unique' one off jobs that I never anticipated, than I do for the more standard jobs I had planned for it, like land clearing and brush.

I'm not sure if I should send the woodstove to the scrap yard, or cut the top off it and make an evaporator for my maple syrup.

NICE looking grapple, I find I also use mine for lots of other stuff also.

goeduck · Jun 24, 2018

case580c said:
NICE looking grapple, I find I also use mine for lots of other stuff also.

Piston has a WR Long grapple shown in the pictures. I have a WR Long grapple (of my three grapples) and they are top notch grapples. I chose the WR Long over the EA largely due to vertical opening capacity.

case580c · Jun 25, 2018

goeduck said:
Piston has a WR Long grapple shown in the pictures. I have a WR Long grapple (of my three grapples) and they are top notch grapples. I chose the WR Long over the EA largely due to vertical opening capacity.

Yes me to as I recall it's got 46''plus of vertical opening capacity. I do think the Wicked are teeth are sharper & nicer looking. Don't know if it helps or not.

case580c · Jul 9, 2018

I moved some eucalyptus rounds today and figured I would see if I could move a few large pieces I have as I want to use them for a barricade along the roadside of my pond. It was tight quarters so I removed my mower I use to keep the rear wheels on the ground. Well I got them out of the overgrown area. Load was not centered my left rear wanted to come off the ground when I stepped off the tractor to take the pictures, I jumped back on the tractor to lower the loader (wish I would remember to get my fingers out of the lens area). I have a lot of rear ballast on tractor rear wheels. I think if I had the load centered I would have been OK. I don't know if anyone is familiar with eucalyptus it is dense and very Heavy even when dry. This Euch log was cut down about 35 years ago so it is real dry. Extremely hard wood (it's almost as if these stumps have petrified instead of breaking down over the years) I think there are 4 more in the brush pile. The bushes and posion oak have grown up around the logs & covered them up. After I removed the stumps and some piles of rocks I will brush hog the area and reclaim it. I wanted to remove the brush years ago But my wife said Oh leave it as habitat for the wild animals! Last week she saw a coyote with her black cat hanging from its jaws. Now she wants me to remove all the brush. : (

Piston · Jul 9, 2018

That is a BEAST of a log there Case!

dirtymartini · Jul 9, 2018

14 foot long by 28" diameter EWP log for the sawmill. It lifted it just high enough to clear the fenders on my trailer.

Gordon Gould · Jul 10, 2018

Nice log - that is starting to crowd 2000 lbs I would say. Will make some nice lumber.

gg

case580c · Jul 11, 2018

Piston said:
That is a BEAST of a log there Case!

I estimate it weights around 2900 lbs I needed the larger opening 42.5 " of the WR Long to grab it. I am impressed on the capacity of the Tractors loader if I didn't have 4 whl drive it would have been real difficult to move it without ballast on my 3 pt. Next time I move it i will be able to center the load should be a bit easier to lift and wheel it away to its final destination as a deterrent to the folks that want to pull over along my fence line wide spot to use their Cell phones I wouldn't mine except after they leave i usually find a few empty beer cans, or tissues grrr.

I used Timber and Lumber Calculators at WOODWEB to estimate the weight

MossRoad · Jul 11, 2018

case580c said:
I estimate it weights around 2900 lbs I needed the larger opening 42.5 " of the WR Long to grab it. I am impressed on the capacity of the Tractors loader if I didn't have 4 whl drive it would have been real difficult to move it without ballast on my 3 pt. Next time I move it i will be able to center the load should be a bit easier to lift and wheel it away to its final destination as a deterrent to the folks that want to pull over along my fence line wide spot to use their Cell phones I wouldn't mine except after they leave i usually find a few empty beer cans, or tissues grrr.

I used Timber and Lumber Calculators at WOODWEB to estimate the weight

Nice! If you cut that in quarters I'd be able to roll them around with my little machine. :laughing: