trktrman
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My tractor is droooooolling! It was watching from the window.:laughing:
Single Lid CUT Wicked Grapple..If your compact tractor could talk....
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We've been running around 2-3 weeks on production. Hopefully that will be improving since the spring rush is over.
It's hard to tell how long they'll stay at the introductory price.
Travis
It's hard to tell how long they'll stay at the introductory price.
Travis
k0ua
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Wheel in the air at 17:40. showing just what can happen when you don't have quite enough rear ballast on the back and even the slight angled terrain. More ballast, More Ballast.. (Ted the toolman rendition
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Here's a pic(cell phone quality) of the painted grapple! Official pics will be added to our website soon.
IslandTractor
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Looks nice. How are the intermediate tines attached to the front tube? Is there anything to keep them from moving laterally?
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I like Ted's comments at the beginning of the video. He is certainly right that the weight of the tractor is more important than HP in determining what is safe vs risky for a light duty grapple.
He alludes to issues like not knowing what is in a big brush pile (stump!!!
) or pushing inadvertently against a tree that would certainly be issues with a much bigger tractor. Too bad there wasn't an opportunity to demonstrate these types of issues in operation on the video as most buyers will be novices and might not pick up on Ted's verbal advice right away. A slow speed demo of what not to do (eg pull with the upper lid, push with the open upper lid, asymmetric pushing against a tree, lifting a badly unbalanced heavy load etc etc) would be a useful addition. Maybe some of the middle of this video could be edited out as it is pretty repetitive after showing how a few full bites of brush can be moved. Find an old bush and show how to take it out with combo of pushing and lifting. Show how to best handle digging out a small stump and how to carry an asymmetric stump safely. The grapple really looks very nice and would be SO SO useful on the smaller light tractors made by Kubota and Deere that have loader lift capacities of under 1500lbs (just about everything those companies make up to 40hp). You guys really need to get those Deere and Kubota specific pin mount versions done and demo'd with the video so people can make a decision whether an extra $800 or so for a QA adapter is worth it. With such a light grapple, just having a tapered pin to help line up the pin holes like the riveters do in steel work would make switching the pin mounts pretty darn easy. You'd sell a lot of them!!!
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They're held onto the brackets by carriage bolts. The brackets are welded onto the grapple frame.
Here's a pic:
