Help deciding on a grapple.

[In.the.Piñons]

I would like to purchase a grapple for my 100 horse tractor. There appears to be a ton of styles/brands/sizes out there.

I'd like to get something useful for the following tasks.

Moving & loading old house building material like bricks, roof tiles, pallets, wood off cuts, old and rotten telephone poles & fence poles. Basically cleaning up from when the house was built. This is pretty much a one time task that I could mostly do by loading my current bucket by hand if I had too.

Moving & loading large trees/logs (old growth Pinion some up to 2-3ft diameter).

Moving bucked and split fire wood. I have about 10 loose cords laying about that I want to get off the ground and dump into IBC totes or relocate onto pallets. I'll always have more split wood that I have totes, so this will be an on going job.

Clearing and dumping sage brush from my fields, similar to what this gentlemen is doing (see video link below, clearing starts @ 5:00).

So from what I can gather a rock grapple (with removable side plates) would be best to cover these tasks? Something like the stinger in the video below? If so, what would be the best size to get? My tractor is 7ft wide with a 84" bucket. I'm guessing a wide grapple (the same width as the tractor) would be nice when clearing sage brush. However, when loading stuff into my dump trailer (7x14x4ft) I would always have to go over the side as the grapple would be too wide to f it inside the trailer from behind (with the barn doors open). Not that you could get the grapple very far into the trailer, from behind anyway.

What about brands? The stinger (depending on size) is a little more than I wanted to spend. CDI or Stout? Budget is $3K +/-

 

[nyone]

Express steel and tomahawlk both make quality USA built grapples that are strong enough for a large machine like yours. I would definitely be looking for smaller slots in the bottom like the one your showing here. They do make them with a solid bottom too.