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The protective grid is now reality!
What would keep your Grapple out of the FIRE?
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ovrszd
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Strong but barely effective. The limbs that will get your latches or hydraulic hoses will fit easily between the bars. Nice try though.
Not to be offensive,,,,, but you guys need an experienced operator to test your products. He/She would easily see these types of issues before mass production.
Not to be offensive,,,,, but you guys need an experienced operator to test your products. He/She would easily see these types of issues before mass production.
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Strong but barely effective. The limbs that will get your latches or hydraulic hoses will fit easily between the bars. Nice try though.
Not to be offensive,,,,, but you guys need an experienced operator to test your products. He/She would easily see these types of issues before mass production.
WoW :laughing:
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About twice that many bars would be better, but I wouldn't go as far to call it barely effective.Strong but barely effective. The limbs that will get your latches or hydraulic hoses will fit easily between the bars. Nice try though. Not to be offensive,,,,, but you guys need an experienced operator to test your products. He/She would easily see these types of issues before mass production.
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Now offer some extruded steel panels we can put up against those slats, or take off if we don't want them.
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The new bars look great as they still allow good visibility and some defense against the errant branch. I'm sure you wil refine this more with possible clamp on panels for more protection if the customer needs it at the sacrifice of some visibility. I plan on adding bars to my grapple since you have given us all this easy idea. I use a Skidsteer so I really like to see as well as possible. The even better point to this thread is how our quick attach levers can be tripped by the brush. I plan on adding a couple of short loops of small chain to positively secure the handles so the grapple doesn't end up hanging from the hoses!
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Personally, I'd put expanded metal over the entire grid, maybe reducing the number of grid bars, due to the expanded metal offering way more protection from branches/limbs, etc., and not reducing visibility all that much. I've added expanded metal to my brushbar and my log grapple, and it has saved the bacon on numerous occasions, in the various applications each piece encounters.
As far as needing an experienced operator - I'd just ignore inane comments like those.:confused3: (Insert smiley face here).
As far as needing an experienced operator - I'd just ignore inane comments like those.:confused3: (Insert smiley face here).
Jim Timber
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The concern with expanded steel is that it'd catch debris and get tangled up forcing the operator to get off the machine to clear it. I can certainly see that being a possibility with the diamond pattern acting like a snare if something is drawn into the narrow side of the diamond.