Thanks xc - I was trying to get a read from you on what those teeth added. I have very little experience with mine so I am naturally open to improving features. I was wondering if the teeth were meant to be used when the rock plate was mounted to give you some teeth/tines to work with. How much extension do they give you. It is hard to tell from the pic ??
This is what the Frost Bite looks like. Probably bigger than you remember Luke. Certainly very similar to the Sundown units. The Frost Bite is a little beefier than the Igland in places, like the cylinder back-up plate and the QA plate. Also, I think the frost Bite lid joints are bushed better. Pretty similar though. Mine cost $1495 including SSQA plates and he "threw in" the rock plate which I did not mount.
The Frost Bite comes as a grapple unit with a left and right bolt-on mounting plate. There are 3 different plates available; SSQA, John Deere, and Euro/ISO. It weighs 359 lbs including the SSQA plate. The opening is 42" and the bottom tines are spaced at 29". It is a pass-by grapple. It has two male 1/2" ISO-B hydraulic QD crimp-on hose end connectors on the 3/8" hoses. The quality is very good.
I just put mine together and got the hydraulic QD's matched up ( changed the tractor from M/F 3/8 ISO-A to F/F 1/2" ISO-B) yesterday morning and used it during the afternoon so I don't have much experience yet but so far I like it quite a bit.
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