JOHNTHOMAS
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[FONT=Arial, CalibriVerdana, Geneva, sans-serif]I have a B2650 Kubota and have decided I want, different than need, a grapple. Have been researching for a couple weeks and talked with my Kubota dealer a couple times about getting one. If I use it I will be doing some brush pick up, no big trees or stumps. I also have many rocks in the 24" to 36" size. I currently have difficulty picking up these rocks with my front bucket. Sometimes I can do it like a pro and other times I push them all over the yard.[/FONT]:confused2:
Watched Teds EA video using his small grapple which I'd call a root grapple and he seemed to be using it like a claw grapple by tilting bucket far forward and coming down on the brush and not coming under it and picking it up. Maybe that's his way or maybe that's the way it's supposed to be done. Sure he knows more than me who has never used one and he has.
Any way I'm between these two grapples which weigh about the same and near the same size and about same price. I recently bent both cylinders on my FEL arms while using a front backhoe. I may have tilted the cylinders out to far which may have caused it which seems to be what is happening when Ted uses his grapple like a claw grapple which I want to avoid.
Would like opinions between claw and root grapples for my intended rare use of a grapple before ordering one. Here are links to the two I'm considering. Also looking at one that's over 400 lbs but much less money.
Tomahawk Attachments :: Tomahawk 66" One-Cylinder Brush Grapple
.....SGC 6 Series Claw Grapples | Land Pride
....Subcompact Compact Tractor Wicked Root Grapple 50" Single lid
Watched Teds EA video using his small grapple which I'd call a root grapple and he seemed to be using it like a claw grapple by tilting bucket far forward and coming down on the brush and not coming under it and picking it up. Maybe that's his way or maybe that's the way it's supposed to be done. Sure he knows more than me who has never used one and he has.
Any way I'm between these two grapples which weigh about the same and near the same size and about same price. I recently bent both cylinders on my FEL arms while using a front backhoe. I may have tilted the cylinders out to far which may have caused it which seems to be what is happening when Ted uses his grapple like a claw grapple which I want to avoid.
Would like opinions between claw and root grapples for my intended rare use of a grapple before ordering one. Here are links to the two I'm considering. Also looking at one that's over 400 lbs but much less money.
Tomahawk Attachments :: Tomahawk 66" One-Cylinder Brush Grapple
.....SGC 6 Series Claw Grapples | Land Pride
....Subcompact Compact Tractor Wicked Root Grapple 50" Single lid
