The WICKED Root & Debris GRAPPLE!!!!!!!

[Cat_Driver]

My root grapple in action, I cut a path through some hard Mesquite trees. The video is sped up so you don't get bored. I bought mine about 10 years ago, and it's a monster.
For all those that wonder about CAB or NO CAB, the windshield saved my life. A "branch" was stopped by my front glass. If it wasn't there I'd be a dead man right now.
Watch it FULL SCREEN by clicking on the right corner of the video.

 

[TomSeller]

Where is all this brush coming from that you guys are filling your grapple with? .

The dirt. It grows upwards towards the sun. 60 HP machine underneath for perspective.

 

[94BULLITT]

The dirt. It grows upwards towards the sun. 60 HP machine underneath for perspective.

That grew in one blob?

 

[TomSeller]

That grew in one blob?

Yes it did, one pick and off to the burn pile. I had to climb out to see where I was going once.

 

[IslandTractor]

WR Long hasn't been around for as long as they have because they don't know what to manufacture. Marketing and distribution might be another discussion. I have never heard anything bad about their grapples. They might want to up the 2200lb ratting a few hundred, but that is about all.

WRLong has been around for a long time. Probably longer than EA. Their business strategy involves middlemen (dealers) and they will not sell direct so you don't get as much back and forth here in TBN but Nelson Long has sold a LOT of grapples.

 

[IslandTractor]

What are you guys doing with a grapple on a CUT that you need a large opening for? Most of the talk on here is it would be better for brush. Where is all this brush coming from that you guys are filling your grapple with? I think the main advantage of a larger opening on a grapple would be for handling a larger log (not very many here over 30'') or moving a larger stump (that a CUT may not lift). So my question is why do you need a larger opening for brush? It takes a lot of brush to fill my grapple. Are you guys moving piles around with your grapple? I think it is great that EA is going to be offering a grapple with a larger opening to meet their customers wants.

In my case the brush is coming from abandoned farm pastures on conservancy land that haven't been mowed in 20-30 years. Lots of briar and bushes as well as weed trees. I prefer to uproot and collect for burning rather than just bush hog as the bad stuff just grows back faster than good grasses. Also, if I can eliminate brush, other volunteers will routinely mow the fields with lawn tractors but they won't if there is a lot of stubble or debris as occurs with bush hogging.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Loflin Monster Grapple, 6' wide. It weighs almost 1200 pounds. Last April I pulled a bunch of cedars with the tree puller and left them in piles of 3 or 4 trees. I put the grapple on and made one trip, "smooching" and picking up piles until I had all 10 piles in the grapple. This is about 35 trees. <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/files/attachments/407613-wicked-root-debris-grapple-p4110062-jpg"/> <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/files/attachments/407614-wicked-root-debris-grapple-p4110069-jpg"/> ​You can't do this with a 30" opening grapple!

Thanks, I really like this grapple and the opening is biggest I have seen. Mine has 39 opening and always seems to small with brush.

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[EverythingAttachments]

Travis, I've been shopping for a grapple for about a year now. I don't have an EA because:
1) I'm 3,000 miles away, not in your shipping zone
2) the opening is too small

Why didn't I tell you that? Because you are not a custom manufacturer. You build what you build. So I looked elsewhere.

Just because potential customers don't ask for something you don't offer is no reason to think you aren't losing sales due to what you do offer not being what your potential customers want.

Not being critical, just letting you know why, in my opinion, you aren't hearing more about why your grapple doesn't please everyone.

1) Shipping to a staffed commercial business or to the freight terminal in San Diego would only be around $100 for 400 pounds. No tax.
2) Models to come as currently being discussed if you are still looking

We can't please everyone, that's a given, but we will sure give it our best effort by offering different choices.

I think the vast majority of customers are happy with the current offerings, but there are specialty applications where a larger opening IS required so we will broaden our offerings.

Did you see the 50" Wicked Grapple video? He moves large amounts of material with that little tractor and even gets tippy a few times.

Size argument aside, we hear what some customers want and we are responding. New models to come. Ted was already ordering cylinders yesterday afternoon. :thumbsup:
Travis

 

[EverythingAttachments]

That was me ordering the grapple. ****, if I knew you were working on one with a larger opening I might have waited:confused3:

We sold 3 60" Wicked Grapples yesterday!

Yours has not shipped, but it probably will today. If you'd rather have a 60" single lid with about 40" opening, give me a call this morning and we can switch the order. I do not know how long it will be before the new ones will be ready to start shipping though.
Travis

 

[EverythingAttachments]

What are you guys doing with a grapple on a CUT that you need a large opening for? Most of the talk on here is it would be better for brush. Where is all this brush coming from that you guys are filling your grapple with? I think the main advantage of a larger opening on a grapple would be for handling a larger log (not very many here over 30'') or moving a larger stump (that a CUT may not lift). So my question is why do you need a larger opening for brush? It takes a lot of brush to fill my grapple. Are you guys moving piles around with your grapple?

I think it is great that EA is going to be offering a grapple with a larger opening to meet their customers wants.

I know for a fact that Roger knows the Wicked Grapple thoroughly from one end to the other, probably almost good enough to make one.:thumbsup:

Travis