KiwiBro
Gold Member
Hello everyone,
First time poster long time lurker and I love your show.
We've some specific needs for an attachment for our FEL and I was hoping for recommendations of preferably one attachment that will meet all needs please, preferably from people who have experience with such uses and attachments.
Needs:
1. Pick up and hold logs/trees or groups thereof of varying diameters. By getting them off the ground, they can be bucked into firewood-sized lengths easily without chainsaws kissing the dirt. Ideally, we'd like the ability to (with the use of a packer off the back of the attachment to keep the chainsaw bar tip clear of any metal) buck the entire log coming at it from both free ends and then also between any grapple arms. This saves double handling the FEL-width short log remnants - they can be bucked on the FEL.
2. Drive into and pick up from, split firewood piles for loading into trucks. The maximum safe, non ragged edge, volume possible within the FEL capacity of approx 2200 Lbs at pivot pins is what we need because we are loading approx' 15 cords each time and the task gets 'old' with a small bucket. We'd like to allow debris to fall out and have tine/tong spacings of about 3-4".
3. Pick and pile up brush left over from felling jobs.
I have searched this and other forums and researched this and have had a hard time trying to find something that will do the job (we are asking quite a few things of one implement so may be unreasonable in that regard). The closest thing I can think of is a hay spear with the conical tongs at 3-4" apart, pin on/off sides when loading split wood, double grapple arms (narrow for bucking the logs, but some way of pinning, say, 10" wide plates to them so they exert pressure on more split wood when loading firewood thus stopping it from falling out), and a pin on/off spacer at the back (back is a bit like those on pallet forks- quite high - but with flat bar spacers to stop split wood falling through).
Are there any firewood people out there that have been down this road and/or have any recommendations please? There are quite a few manufactures of various grapple buckets, stone rakes, skeleton buckets, etc but none of those I've contact could say they have people using them for firewood nor give me advice relating to our specific needs.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
First time poster long time lurker and I love your show.
We've some specific needs for an attachment for our FEL and I was hoping for recommendations of preferably one attachment that will meet all needs please, preferably from people who have experience with such uses and attachments.
Needs:
1. Pick up and hold logs/trees or groups thereof of varying diameters. By getting them off the ground, they can be bucked into firewood-sized lengths easily without chainsaws kissing the dirt. Ideally, we'd like the ability to (with the use of a packer off the back of the attachment to keep the chainsaw bar tip clear of any metal) buck the entire log coming at it from both free ends and then also between any grapple arms. This saves double handling the FEL-width short log remnants - they can be bucked on the FEL.
2. Drive into and pick up from, split firewood piles for loading into trucks. The maximum safe, non ragged edge, volume possible within the FEL capacity of approx 2200 Lbs at pivot pins is what we need because we are loading approx' 15 cords each time and the task gets 'old' with a small bucket. We'd like to allow debris to fall out and have tine/tong spacings of about 3-4".
3. Pick and pile up brush left over from felling jobs.
I have searched this and other forums and researched this and have had a hard time trying to find something that will do the job (we are asking quite a few things of one implement so may be unreasonable in that regard). The closest thing I can think of is a hay spear with the conical tongs at 3-4" apart, pin on/off sides when loading split wood, double grapple arms (narrow for bucking the logs, but some way of pinning, say, 10" wide plates to them so they exert pressure on more split wood when loading firewood thus stopping it from falling out), and a pin on/off spacer at the back (back is a bit like those on pallet forks- quite high - but with flat bar spacers to stop split wood falling through).
Are there any firewood people out there that have been down this road and/or have any recommendations please? There are quite a few manufactures of various grapple buckets, stone rakes, skeleton buckets, etc but none of those I've contact could say they have people using them for firewood nor give me advice relating to our specific needs.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.