Island tractor, your the reason I went with the 48" grapple, you made alot of good points in your posts. You are right about the digging part we have a bunch of old locust stumps that were still solid as a rock. I dug some out with the bucket but had to dig a big hole to be able to get under the roots to pop them out. With the 48' root grapple I was able to drive it under the roots and lift them up took about half the time and did not disturb the surrounding ground as much, heck a 36" grapple would have even been better, the smaller grapple keeps all the lifting forces between the loader arms. As far as being able to see the outside tines this grapple sticks out about 38" from the loader arms and I can see them. Like a said before a bigger grapple would be great on flat ground but with all the rocks and uneven terrain it's hard get the 48" to lay flat on the ground. As far as capacity I can grap enough to make the rearend come off the ground even with a heavy duty BB as counter balance.