The WICKED Root & Debris GRAPPLE!!!!!!!

[DieselBound]

Once spotted on a desk placard:

I'd like to help you out, which way did you come in?

Oh yeah, I'm kind of off-tractor season now, but am eying all the stuff I'm wanting to grapple up when the season returns.:thumbsup:

 

[Mad Mac]

What is this tool that Tractor Supply sells? The link just take me to the home page, or am I missing something ?
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I couldn't find it on the Tractor Supply site either, but it's the same as this one from AgriSupply Double Breakaway Clamp With Offset Bar For Hyd. Couplers

 

[case580c]

I couldn't find it on the Tractor Supply site either, but it's the same as this one from AgriSupply Double Breakaway Clamp With Offset Bar For Hyd. Couplers

Is it just a device to hold the coupling on the tractor loader frame? Thanks

 

[DieselBound]

Is it just a device to hold the coupling on the tractor loader frame? Thanks

It's as it is named - Breakaway Clamp - meaning that it's meant to facilitate popping the hoses under severe strain. They're supposed to cause the couplers to detach before one breaks hoses (many here can probably raise their hands as to having broken hoses by forgetting to disconnect them when going to drop off an attachment). I'm considering one of these for this benefit, as well as because I am not liking the spring hose saver that I now have (it's not a breakaway): doesn't hold the mass of coupler bits very well; not stable for connecting/disconnecting.

 

[DieselBound]

Does anyone know if these breakaway clamps can take flat-faced connectors, and, do they work for mixed gender connectors (within the clamp, one side male, other female)?

 

[ericm979]

The ones I have seen were all for female ag connectors. The way they work is that when the hoses are pulled the collar on the female side gets slid back which releases the male side. Flat face work the same way they're just larger. Some flat face are set up so you have to rotate the collar to a certain position before it will unlock. That wouldn't work well with the quick release concept 'cause they're easy to rotate out of position.

 

[LiveDog]

My new EA 66" Dual-lid Wicked Root Grapple, EA 66" XTreme Box-Blade and EA Cat 1 3 Pt hitch receiver late arrived today... I barely had time to unload the truck, install the implements and take a few pics (see attached)...

 

[goeduck]

My new EA 66" Dual-lid Wicked Root Grapple, EA 66" XTreme Box-Blade and EA Cat 1 3 Pt hitch receiver late arrived today... I barely had time to unload the truck, install the implements and take a few pics (see attached)...

You need to get rid of some of that paint Very nice setup you have

 

[RichM752]

Looking good.

 

[EverythingAttachments]

Hmmmm....
I'll go out on a limb(log, actually) and say that do not think those cheap grapples would survive this.
On another limb, I bet the box blade was free with the tractor, otherwise it would be an EA. :laughing:


The tractor is a Kubota L4600 with a 66" Single Lid Wicked Grapple.
This is his second 66" Single Lid Wicked Grapple, so I think he's confident in his initial buying decision. He let the first one go when he sold his L3800.
Travis