grapple bx25

grapple for my bx25, any suggestions or ideas ,1 that is easy to install
this is all new me

Your in the Lawn and Garden forum. You'll get more response in the Kubota tractor owners forum here:Kubota Owning/Operating

You could always bolt on a thumb and use the hoe bucket & thumb as a grapple type arrangement if it would work for you. I got my thumb from Bro-Tek.

There are a few products out there to add one to your BX but not cheap, or you can buy a bolt on thumb and like Garyoc posted above and then fabricate a mount for it on your FEL, then figure out how to add a third hydraulic circuit to your FEL to control it. Do a search in the attachments forum for "grappleomatic". Member Artisan posted a very comprehensive thread on how he added one to his BX25 and I think there's links to other products/options in that thread.

adding a grapple to a subcompact is not a good idea. After its all done, you maybe able to lift 200-250lbs of stuff. Its just not a good idea.

The thing with a grapple on a sub compact is knowing your limitation. For lifting brush you would probably be ok, but like MessickFarmEqu said, you're only going to be able to lift 200-250 .lbs. So you might have some problems if you are going to lift cut logs.

That being said, I still want one on my Sc2400. I made some brush forks for my Sc2400 which work good, but I'd still like the capability of a full grapple.

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The weight of the bucket for the Sc2400 is 130 .lbs. The weight of the smallest 38" grapple from WRLong, is 280 .lbs. Bolt on is 143 .lbs
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