GreatWhitehunter
Veteran Member
I don't know why Markham and WRLong and other grapple makers are so conservative with their recommendations on LD grapples. I suspect they are so focused on skidsteers in commercial environments that they just don't know or consider how CUT owners use grapples. No one that I know of on TBN has complained that they have seriously damaged a light duty grapple. I use a light duty 48" Millonzi on a loader with 2700lbs lift capacity and I've worked it hard (for a CUT) killing brush, digging stumps and moving big rocks and it is going strong after four years.
I 100% agree with this. I've got the same Millonzi as Island and there is no way any cut is going to damage it. The loader will be broken first. Markham an others just don't get it. The lift and power of a cut loader is a joke compared to a skid. Just the geometry of the two should be a good indicator. As for the pics of the new markham grapple and TB. I would definatly complain to them. That is a shame that there quality control is so bad. My grapple is a few years old and sits outside 99% of the time and the paint looks better than that. The probably didn't clean the metal surfaces of oils before they painted it.
Matt