Grapple bucket for SCUT?

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Not trying to sway you one way or the other OP!
Travis

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Yeah...sure...not trying to sway me...Those small tractors are still bigger than mine! I've been considering upgrading to a B2601 for a little more ground clearance and a little more grunt. If I ended up going that way, your wicked grapple is on my list...just not sure I am ready to pull that trigger....
 
   / Grapple bucket for SCUT? #22  
Small tractors with Wicked Grapples. Just for reference...
Not trying to sway you one way or the other OP!
Travis

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You need some pictures where a grapple is actually doing something useful! Those two examples show pretty new grapples doing something that could just as easily have been done with a standard bucket!!! Indeed, both would have been more appropriately done with a bucket. Carrying small items (chainsaw, gas can, oil) or pavers that clearly were loaded by hand do not show the benefits of a grapple.
 
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You need some pictures where a grapple is actually doing something useful! Those two examples show pretty new grapples doing something that could just as easily have been done with a standard bucket!!! Indeed, both would have been more appropriately done with a bucket. Carrying small items (chainsaw, gas can, oil) or pavers that clearly were loaded by hand do not show the benefits of a grapple.

I didn't take the pics, but I'm always grateful that people care enough to photograph our grapples and I like to show them off when the opportunity arises!

I have a pretty good collection of Wicked Grapple pics, but those were the most relevant to this thread.

Here's a Wicked Grapple doing work, but where's the grapple?
Travis

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I didn't take the pics, but I'm always grateful that people care enough to photograph our grapples and I like to show them off when the opportunity arises!

I have a pretty good collection of Wicked Grapple pics, but those were the most relevant to this thread.

Here's a Wicked Grapple doing work, but where's the grapple?
Travis

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That's more like it!!!! I can see the left bottom corner of what I presume is the 50" compact.

You should start a series of photos "where's the grapple?" just like "Where's Waldo?...

That photo is also a great example of "sticky brush" and why a narrow single lid grapple can do far more work than one might expect.

Here's a similar (non EA) 48" grapple trying to hide:
 

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   / Grapple bucket for SCUT? #25  
That's more like it!!!! I can see the left bottom corner of what I presume is the 50" compact.

I'll keep it's identity as a mystery right now. I got the pic off TBN, so there's a chance that the owner will see it and let us know!
It is a Wicked though! :D
Travis
 
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image-296781764.jpg image-3915794488.jpg image-1710909432.jpg The last picture was obviously hand loaded, but it still holds a lot more than the bucket. These pictures were a were small percentage of what I recently did with it. I cut 5 or 6 of those terrible pine trees, a large oak, and a huge maple. I cleaned it all up with the grapple.
 
   / Grapple bucket for SCUT? #27  
Just for comparison :D

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I don't know why you are so against these bucket grapples they are really quite good.

gg
 
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I prefer a bucket grapple. Gives me both functions without having to switch. The grapple is rarely in the way. I have the factory bare bucket if needed. In 4 years of heavy FEL use my factory bucket barely has paint worn off the cutting edge.
 
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I have pallet forks and a real grapple. The pallet forks are a huge improvement over the factory bucket, but the grapple is still vastly superior for moving brush. A set of pallet forks with a thumb would be a good compromise, but still not nearly as good as a real grapple.
My suggestion for pallet forks was because the OP seemed price sensitive and pallet forks can always be handy. Perhaps half of my equipment is stored on pallets. I can roll them around with my standard HF pallet jack or pick them up with my tractor. For a tractor WITHOUT a QA the $150 pallet forks are a great attachment. And they require no hydraulics.

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I don't know why you are so against these bucket grapples they are really quite good.

gg

If you read closely most of the posters who seem to be AGAINST a bucket grapple have larger tractors and budgets. Those of us with small tractors, small budgets, and big ambitions have tradeoffs. I'd really like to have an EA $1,600 grapple, either pin on or with a $300 QA for my B7610 but realistically my chain and pallet forks will probably do for now.
 
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Just for comparison :D <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/files/attachments/447965-grapple-bucket-scut-loadoffirewood-jpg"/> I don't know why you are so against these bucket grapples they are really quite good. gg
Who doesn't like bucket grapples? If I didn't have a SSQA, I'd definitely have one. Better than a 4n1 at a quarter the price.
 
 
 
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