Travis, if your snapping pics, mind if I get a couple of mine? Also, I know no one is bashing EA but I think these guys need to be recognized for a few things that set them apart. 1. The only implement dealer to be active on TBN offering product advice and having product videos explaining why they are built the way they are. If I wanted to see why or how a frontier product from JD was made, forget it. How many other manufactures make such a quality product and offer to customize it and interact with the customer this much? 2. The only ones trying to improve their product constantly. The wicked Grapple is a great example of this. I think it is BS to say they are trying to upsell folks into bigger grapples. They are the ones that invented the smaller lighter grapples because Ted understood the need for our small tractors to have small and light yet strong grapples. Try getting any other manufacture or salesman at a local implement to give you a more honest answer about what is best suited for your tractor. Where EA is at a disadvantage is that unless you live in NC you can't put your hands on one until you buy it. I think being able to see and perhaps demo one would solve these issues. Tractor manufactures are all over the board on how they rate loaders and every tractor has diffrent physics relative to there stability. Best I can expect them to do is make their best recommendation and the purchaser should be able to know their tractor capacity from lifting other things. EA provides the weight of each implement and it isn't too hard to figure out how far the moment arm is. From there you could easily have an idea of what size suits you. The 54" grapple I just bought weighs in at 349 pounds. My forks are 480, so I think they did some amazing work to get these grapples as light as they did. 3. Made in the USA
