Everything Attachments Wicked Grapple Build

[jmc]

Roger, could you post a picture of the unpacked components?

Apparently not.

 

[94BULLITT]

Apparently not.

Sorry I can't take a pictures of everything unpacked. I will be posting plenty of pictures of the build process.

 

[94BULLITT]

Travis emailed me the drawings of it Tuesday. He also sent me some very large prints of the drawings. I am going to look things over and start soon.

 

[94BULLITT]

I made a little progress tonight. I cleaned some pieces up to be prepped for welding. Then I laid the pieces together. Here are some pictures.

I got the pieces sitting where I wanted them (squared up) and tacked them one by one. After I got them all tacked I doubled checked everything to make sure it was were I wanted it and add more tacks. I don't have the pipe tacked yet but the tines are tacked very good to the pieces of 3X3.

Here it is holding itself together.

 

[SPIKER]

Hey looking like some real progress has started, looking forward to more photos and assembly details...

Make sure to keep good notes and the camera & writing stick handy...

Mark

 

[murphy1244]

How thick are those tines?

 

[vwnotrunning]

How long is the grapple? Really looking forward to this build.

 

[94BULLITT]

Hey looking like some real progress has started, looking forward to more photos and assembly details...

Make sure to keep good notes and the camera & writing stick handy...

Mark

Thanks.

How thick are those tines?

5/16''

How long is the grapple? Really looking forward to this build.

Thanks, it is a 72'' grapple.

 

[94BULLITT]

I got the lid hinges on.

Here is a pic of the lids on.

I wanted to put the hinges on so the lids could be put so I could make sure the lids aligned with the tines before the tines were welded to the bottom pipe. It is looking good so far.
The pictures shows the lid aligning with a tine.

I also welded a little more on some the tines to the bottom tube.

Everything Attachments had the lids tacked together and I had to weld the bosses to the one.

 

[kiotiken]

ETA, Looks like a great kit. I'm looking forward to getting an idea of price. Looks like a fun and relatively easy project, but the price still has to be right. Since you wanted to do a box blade and you're doing a grapple, how long until we can expect a price on these two kits?

Great work Roger. Even with all the indexing, I can see how people could (and will) screw it up because they just throw it together without thinking a couple steps ahead like you're doing.