timebak
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Feb 4, 2011
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- Tractor
- RK37SC & John Deere 2030
I've got an LS R4020 w/FEL (47hp & about 6000 lbs w/loaded tires) and need a FEL attachment that I can do a fair amount of digging and grubbing with, plus picking up brush and the occasional log or rock, and I've got a pile of old cross ties to place in my wet-weather creek-bed for erosion control in one area.
I also will be building a bunch of trails in the 43 acres of woods around our home (wife's honey-do project) and re-opening some old logging roads (already have a good, heavy 3pt mounted grader blade for road work that I can put on for extra rear ballast, if needed).
I know a guy that has offered me a heck of a deal on a Bradco 60" 4-in-1 bucket (with teeth on the cutting edge of the bucket and serrations in the gripping or clamshell area of the bucket. He also has offered me a good deal on a very heavy duty stump grapple bucket with teeth and also serrations on the bucket edge. And another guy has a good deal on a Bobcat flat bottom grapple bucket for about the same price.
The Bradco 4-in-1 weighs 360 lbs. The stump grapple is built like a tank and weighs 700 lbs. I don't know what the Bobcat grapple bucket weighs, but I'd guess around 500 lbs.
I'd like your opinion and/or guidance about which of these attachments would probably serve me best. And I wonder if the 700 lb stump grapple would be too heavy to do much with on my tractor or if it will handle it OK.
I also will be building a bunch of trails in the 43 acres of woods around our home (wife's honey-do project) and re-opening some old logging roads (already have a good, heavy 3pt mounted grader blade for road work that I can put on for extra rear ballast, if needed).
I know a guy that has offered me a heck of a deal on a Bradco 60" 4-in-1 bucket (with teeth on the cutting edge of the bucket and serrations in the gripping or clamshell area of the bucket. He also has offered me a good deal on a very heavy duty stump grapple bucket with teeth and also serrations on the bucket edge. And another guy has a good deal on a Bobcat flat bottom grapple bucket for about the same price.
The Bradco 4-in-1 weighs 360 lbs. The stump grapple is built like a tank and weighs 700 lbs. I don't know what the Bobcat grapple bucket weighs, but I'd guess around 500 lbs.
I'd like your opinion and/or guidance about which of these attachments would probably serve me best. And I wonder if the 700 lb stump grapple would be too heavy to do much with on my tractor or if it will handle it OK.