Grappling fun - A Picture Thread....

[94BULLITT]

A couple of guys stopped in while I was moving logs. The one guy said "that grapple has two things on top, it works better than a grapple with one." I could not hardly keep from laughing when he said that.

 

[PSEbowhunter]

A couple of guys stopped in while I was moving logs. The one guy said "that grapple has two things on top, it works better than a grapple with one." I could not hardly keep from laughing when he said that.

They must've been tbn'rs haha

 

[IslandTractor]

http://s278.photobucket.com/user/NHRAx1320/media/tractor/20160305_152521_zpsjzvbel2r.jpg.html A couple of guys stopped in while I was moving logs. The one guy said "that grapple has two things on top, it works better than a grapple with one." I could not hardly keep from laughing when he said that.

They must have been drunk and seeing double everywhere!

 

[bcp]

A couple of guys stopped in while I was moving logs. The one guy said "that grapple has two things on top, it works better than a grapple with one." I could not hardly keep from laughing when he said that.

Intelligent design:



Bruce

 

[IslandTractor]

Intelligent design: <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=459916"/> Bruce

Love it!!

 

[LouieJunior]

Only one thing on top here -- but works perfectly well for all of my uses. Moving logs, brush piles and digging roots. It is a Frontier Root Grapple AV20H. I use it more often than any other loader attachment.

 

[k0ua]

A couple of guys stopped in while I was moving logs. The one guy said "that grapple has two things on top, it works better than a grapple with one." I could not hardly keep from laughing when he said that.

That man must have be a troublemaker.

 

[PhysAssist]

Like what I do. Find a couple projects and go for it. I've dug a few stumps out that a BX shouldn't handle but I take breaks, work somewhere else and come back to it. And loving it!

So have you come up with any techniques that work well to loosen the stumps so that you can get them out?

We have had occasional successes, but more often than not we end up frustrated by the process, and leave it for next time.

This is despite the PTBs utility in the other uses to which we put it.

 

[dragoneggs]

So have you come up with any techniques that work well to loosen the stumps so that you can get them out?

We have had occasional successes, but more often than not we end up frustrated by the process, and leave it for next time.

This is despite the PTBs utility in the other uses to which we put it.

Dynamite. No seriously I try to make sure I have a four foot stump height if I can help it. I use a chainsaw on exposed roots by using my BH, and ramming near the top of the stump with my PTB. Yeah it is easy to get frustrated if you plan to remove the stump in one 'sitting'. That's why I tackle it over several work periods. It will dig out a stump heavier than the BX will lift though.

 

[PhysAssist]

Dynamite. No seriously I try to make sure I have a four foot stump height if I can help it. I use a chainsaw on exposed roots by using my BH, and ramming near the top of the stump with my PTB. Yeah it is easy to get frustrated if you plan to remove the stump in one 'sitting'. That's why I tackle it over several work periods. It will dig out a stump heavier than the BX will lift though.

It took me forever to remember to cut them off that high, and if they aren't too dang big, (or dead) I try to do it without cutting the crown off at all.

I try so hard to completely keep my chainsaw away from dirt of any kind that cutting any roots even exposed ones is very foreign to me.

I have a light, but very sharp mattock, as well as an old axe I found somewhere, that I use to cut roots, but the PTB also helps with that somewhat.

It really shines in pushing over trees though- it used to be completely impossible with the OEM bucket edge, and now PTB bites in and the purchase it gives gets the tree moving pretty well.