UncleBuck1
Silver Member
- Joined
- Dec 2, 2012
- Messages
- 109
- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA
- Tractor
- 2011 MF 2660HD; 1964 JD 4020 (may she rest in peace)
I'm getting conflicting information from dealers- who of course have a vested interest in "up-selling"- on what size tractor I need and I'm looking for some unbiased advice.
I recently purchased 160 acres of land that includes about 95 acres of cutover pine that I want to clean up (remaining property is mature hardwoods). A fair amount of slash is on the ground and also a large number of stumps that were dug out for roads and food plots. My plan is to install a grapple on whatever tractor I buy and start picking up and piling all of the logging trash.
After reading everything I could find about grapple operation I started looking for a 40-50hp 4wd tractor, but the salesman at a local Kubota dealership told me I should look at a 60hp or larger tractor. He said that a 40hp tractor would be "too light in the britches" for a grapple and that I wouldn't be satisified with it for clean up use. Of course then he told me that he had no experience with grapples and didn't know if they had ever sold one before.
Can any of you guys running grapples on your CUTs give me some advice on your experiences and recommendations on how big of a tractor I should be looking for?
Brian
I recently purchased 160 acres of land that includes about 95 acres of cutover pine that I want to clean up (remaining property is mature hardwoods). A fair amount of slash is on the ground and also a large number of stumps that were dug out for roads and food plots. My plan is to install a grapple on whatever tractor I buy and start picking up and piling all of the logging trash.
After reading everything I could find about grapple operation I started looking for a 40-50hp 4wd tractor, but the salesman at a local Kubota dealership told me I should look at a 60hp or larger tractor. He said that a 40hp tractor would be "too light in the britches" for a grapple and that I wouldn't be satisified with it for clean up use. Of course then he told me that he had no experience with grapples and didn't know if they had ever sold one before.
Can any of you guys running grapples on your CUTs give me some advice on your experiences and recommendations on how big of a tractor I should be looking for?
Brian