Grapple Anbo Grapple Rake

[garth466]

Well she came in the other day. I have yet to use it. I might run next door and see how it works on the neighbors blackberries. I'm trying to keep her kind of clean for my buddy who is supposed to be here to hook up my new lights. Two 25W up high on the front and two 25W on the ROPs in the rear. Hopefully that will light up my night a little better.

 

[GreatWhitehunter]

That looks great, I'm in the market for a grapple myself. If you don't mind what did that set you back? Did you pay extra for the jd q-tach?

Matt T.

 

[Deerlope]

I was qoute for a 6ft 3000 bucks plus 300 for shipping to NY.

 

[garth466]

Mine was right at $3000 including our punitive sales tax and shipping. Anbo is 6 hours from me, so I don't know how much more shipping would be but mine was about $90. I don't know how well it works because it is dark now and my lights still aren't hooked up. Maybe I'll know in the morning.

 

[GV40U]

I have the 5' BoDozer Grapple, made by Borgford Design (www.borgford.com), also made in Colville, WA. The design is very similar to AnBo. There was some past relationship between people in these two companies, I went with the BoDozer based on the recommendation of my dealer though I couldn't see a lot of difference (at least from the pictures) in design and function. I've had mine for 4 years and I can confirm that it will rip out blackberries...nothing finer... and move logs. I've attached a couple of pictures from when the tractor and grapple were new. The logs in the pictures are salvaged Pacific yew logs, much heavier than Douglas fir. I've learned a lot about using a grapple since these pictures were taken. A bit of practice and you can become very efficient with it but you may drop a few things and become a little frustrated before you become a practiced hand. I recently spent about 6 hours moving and piling about 150 dead and dying 6' to 15' tall incense-cedar trees that a friend had cut off at the base so he could replant a failed timber stand. However, my favorite job is to rip into blackberries and brush and in a few minutes have a piece of ground that is nearly ready to plant. You will have fun.

 

[GV40U]

Ooops...I forgot to mention in my last post that you might want to consider attaching some wire mesh (expanded metal or perforated metal) to your grill guard to protect your grill from sticks if you are moving brush with your grapple. There is a distinct possibility of small sticks pushing through the back of the grapple into the grill...doesn't take much imagination to figure out how I know about that particular problem. Though the pictures I posted do not show a grill guard, it wasn't long after I took those pictures that I built one. I'll try to post pics tomorrow but you can find several clever solutions by doing a search on this site.

 

[dknarnd]

That is a good looking grapple...I looked at it pretty hard but just couldn't justify the price tag of it and went with WR Long instead, but the Ando was my first choice. Shipping for me into NJ was going to be just over $400 so with that then all the wet lines the price was not justified by me.

 

[MrJimi]

This is the link that Greg posted
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Jim

 

[garth466]

I heard the "Bo" in Bodozer is the same "Bo" in Anbo. I am going to upgrade the grill guard because I've already learned that too. I'm going to have to replace my grill anyway.

 

[jimmysisson]

Nice looking unit. I kind of like the idea of carrying logs with some horizontal part of the grapple, rather than relying on hydraulic pressure in the clamp. Yours looks like it goes under the log suffieciently. It also looks like your clamping hoses could use one less turn around the QA crossbar so they're not pulled too tight.
Jim