Rake What grapplw to get. Brush or rake?

[EddieWalker]

I for one sure appreciate the time and effort Island makes to provide these informative posts.
Sure saves me a lot of typing.

Ditto!!!!

Love the pictures, they say it all.

Eddie

 

[IslandTractor]

Love the pictures, they say it all.

Thanks guys. I find that the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words is pretty true. I do worry about boring you guys with the same photos though so I try to spend as much time as I can on the tractor getting new photos. Great excuse for seat time.

I missed a great opportunity this weekend for a photo though. Didn't have my camera with me. I helped a neighbor by using the grapple to lift a 1000lb granite door step out of his pickup. After doing it the next door neighbor came over to us and asked if I'd put an old refrigerator into the pickup to take to the dump. I came over the top of the fridge clamped it and just pivoted it up off the ground then drove it sticking way out in front of the tractor to the pickup where it was gently laid in the bed. Got applause for that. It was a pretty cool demonstration of how powerful these loaders are. It seemed like no more work than if I'd picked a book off a table.

If you don't have a grapple you just don't know what you're missing in life.

 

[pitt_md]

A potential downside of dual upper grapples, besides the added weight and cost, is how you would load a small but heavy object like a boulder. Presumably it is not difficult to have one side of each upper grapple grasp something in the middle but that then leaves you with the same asymmetric forces on the grapple jaw that are potentially harmful. If instead you grasp the rock with just one of the grapples, then you have an asymmetrical load on the FEL itself which ain't good for the loader or tractor stability. For an example, look at the big rock I pulled out of the ground in the photos in my first post. I could not have done that, I don't think, with a dual grapple.

I don't want to confuse the OP with arcane details of pros and cons of different grapple types and would reemphasize and earlier point that no one with any style of grapple seems to complain much at all about any deficiencies. Any grapple is better than no grapple.

This is how you pick up a boulder with a dual grapple.

 

[JR LEWIS]

Thanks guys. I find that the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words is pretty true. I do worry about boring you guys with the same photos though so I try to spend as much time as I can on the tractor getting new photos. Great excuse for seat time.

I missed a great opportunity this weekend for a photo though. Didn't have my camera with me. I helped a neighbor by using the grapple to lift a 1000lb granite door step out of his pickup. After doing it the next door neighbor came over to us and asked if I'd put an old refrigerator into the pickup to take to the dump. I came over the top of the fridge clamped it and just pivoted it up off the ground then drove it sticking way out in front of the tractor to the pickup where it was gently laid in the bed. Got applause for that. It was a pretty cool demonstration of how powerful these loaders are. It seemed like no more work than if I'd picked a book off a table.

If you don't have a grapple you just don't know what you're missing in life.

HAHA!! Cool story.

Thank you very much for the informative details. I'll get to work on that right now !! Can't wait to get the GRAPPLE !!!! Once my wife sees what it can do, I know I'll lose my seat time in favor of her butt in the seat !! Those who dig together, stay together !!!!

 

[3RRL]

Thanks guys. I find that the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words is pretty true. I do worry about boring you guys with the same photos though so I try to spend as much time as I can on the tractor getting new photos. Great excuse for seat time.

Island, I think Eddie was talking about my pictures?
We've seen yours about a million times now. At least I got a few new ones to share.
LOL ... Just pulling your leg a little man.

 

[IslandTractor]

Island, I think Eddie was talking about my pictures?
We've seen yours about a million times now. At least I got a few new ones to share.
LOL ... Just pulling your leg a little man.

I know, I know. You guys need fresh meat. I've been driving a desk too much and don't have any new photos. I gotta get some more seat time.