Grappling fun - A Picture Thread....

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Some concrete chunk at a friend's house...

 

[MossRoad]

Some concrete chunk at a friend's house...

Yeowzers! That's impressive! :thumbsup:

My father built several 100' long, low retaining walls and about 90' of stairs with broken sidewalk. I had to haul my share of that by hand as a kid.

 

[aeblank]

Yeowzers! That's impressive!

My father built several 100' long, low retaining walls and about 90' of stairs with broken sidewalk. I had to haul my share of that by hand as a kid.

Thanks! We had to hand load (grapple was on for moving big rounds for another part of the "crew") and kept increasing the amount till I couldn't lift it very well. There is 1200# concrete counterweight on the back..... Still took several loads.

 

[MossRoad]

My little machine only weighs about 1500# total. It has about an 800# lift capacity. I load it with stuff like that until the rear tires come off the ground, then take out a couple and it sits back down. :laughing: It's articulated, so if I then turn the steering wheel, it makes the unit shorter, the center of gravity shifts, and the rears come off the ground again. Straighten out the wheel and it goes back to all fours. Fun with gravity! :laughing:

 

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My little machine only weighs about 1500# total. It has about an 800# lift capacity. I load it with stuff like that until the rear tires come off the ground, then take out a couple and it sits back down. :laughing: It's articulated, so if I then turn the steering wheel, it makes the unit shorter, the center of gravity shifts, and the rears come off the ground again. Straighten out the wheel and it goes back to all fours. Fun with gravity! :laughing:

It's nice to have a bit extra *** now and then. Most people I know have smaller tractors. They'll do it, but every now and then.....

 

[Threepoint]

Some concrete chunk at a friend's house...

Very impressive! And your friend's property is beautiful!

Not sure I'd be operating with a load like that on those hills with my ROPS down though!

 

[aeblank]

Very impressive! And your friend's property is beautiful!

Not sure I'd be operating with a load like that on those hills with my ROPS down though!

Yeah, lots of maples there. I love maples.

"Those hills" is certainly an exaggeration. Ever so slightly incline, perhaps.

Sure, rops up. Then I'd probably have to wear my seatbelt too. Shouldn't have speed on the way over, either.. my pucker factor was a 1 at the very very most, where 10 is "aww *****". Should have expected that one..

My dad has an L3710 and mine is an L3940. His fits in the garage (8' doors) rops up. Mine doesn't. Lame.... As such, his has never been down. Mine has never been up....

 

[heavy hammer]

moving some large locust rounds, and cutting down some ash trees.

 

[lpigott]

This is the base of a limb that broke off a dying oak tree behind my house.

 

[John_Mc]

My dad has an L3710 and mine is an L3940. His fits in the garage (8' doors) rops up. Mine doesn't. Lame.... As such, his has never been down. Mine has never been up....

One of the reasons I don't own a bigger tractor. My ROPS is now more-or-less permanently up, since I added limb-risers and FOPS to it. The only way to get the ROPS back down is to remove that stuff. It's do-able, since it was designed with "easy" removal in mind, but THat just isn't happening

 

[Cord]

Pushing the limits of my machine trying to move this log. Took a couple of tries to get the grapple to grab a hold of the log because it was so big. Finally got it to set on the tines and the grapple tone locked onto a protruding knot. Unfortunately this allowed the log to rotate slightly which came into play when I was headed down the hill. Unloading an Ash log - YouTube

 

[Gordon Gould]

Pretty much the max Cord. I like the movie makers reaction. :laughing:

gg

 

[goeduck]

Pushing the limits of my machine trying to move this log. Took a couple of tries to get the grapple to grab a hold of the log because it was so big. Finally got it to set on the tines and the grapple tone locked onto a protruding knot. Unfortunately this allowed the log to rotate slightly which came into play when I was headed down the hill. Unloading an Ash log - YouTube

That is impressive. Nice job :thumbsup:

 

[Cord]

I like the movie makers reaction. :laughing:

gg

Yes, I find that I can reach her limit well before mine. I could feel it was tail light when I picked the log and figured it may tip on the slope. I wanted to carry the load even lower, but also didn't want to drag it on the ground. Only took up a 6" piece of turf which wasn't too bad. The biggest thing is to resist the urge to over react and just drive it out. I've seen guys roll machines because they over reacted.

 

[fxrupr]

Might be a good idea to back it down the hill next time.

 

[dirtymartini]

I think I needed more counterweight lol

 

[dirtymartini]

Finally got it

 

[terryknight]

when you need ballast use what you have around you. this is a 900 lb green, white oak log hanging 6ft off the back off a 700 lb rear blade. kept the rear down very well

 

[wwdiii]

Pushing the limits of my machine trying to move this log. Took a couple of tries to get the grapple to grab a hold of the log because it was so big. Finally got it to set on the tines and the grapple tone locked onto a protruding knot. Unfortunately this allowed the log to rotate slightly which came into play when I was headed down the hill. Unloading an Ash log - YouTube

The only thing I would have done different was bang the grapple on the fender of the trailer and dent **** out of it before I did anything else!!!

 

[goeduck]

when you need ballast use what you have around you. this is a 900 lb green, white oak log hanging 6ft off the back off a 700 lb rear blade. kept the rear down very well

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Impressive. :thumbsup: