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On the left: Bobcat 66" industrial grapple bucket "Gray"
On the right: Kubota 72" HD bucket with teeth "Orange"
 

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Round one:
Objective: Pick up tree.

Orange tries but the large tree keeps slipping off.
 

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Gray's turn, but first he has to stretch.
 

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Gray picks up the tree easily.
 

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Round two:
Brush pile:

Orange's approach looks promising!
 

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But Orange fails to execute the lift & pull away.
 

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Gray's approach.
 

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Gray's pickup.
 

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Now, I am using the "Orange" for digging and clearing brush and then for the cleanup I slip on "Gray" to haul to the pile.

I currently do not have a tooth bar on the grapple and sometimes I was picking up sand so I will be getting one soon.

Since I will not be using the grapple bucket for digging, only moving brush, I was thinking it would work out best to find a tooth bar that has more but narrow teeth. Does anyone know if someone makes a spear bar?
 

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Hey, that was fun. All the competition was missing was the beer commercial in the middle.

Cliff
 
 
 
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