Grapple Grapple Advice: single lid or dual lid?

[crazyal]

I have all three and one thing you will not be able to do without a grapple is brush clearing and hauling effectively.

Efficiently as a grapple, probably not. But with a bucket to push the brush into a pile to grab it. I've cleared brush with everything from an old 3 wheel ATV and a chain after piling it up by hand to using my backhoe bucket to pinch it against the dipper stick. If I had a thumb on it I doubt I would have much of a use for a grapple on my compact. If the space between the thumb and the bucket was adjustable I could only imagine the size of rocks I could lift.

I've found that until I win the Power Ball I have to make compromises. I have a set of clamp on forks (a compromise that has the extreme penalty of moving the weight far in front of the pivot pins) that I use often. A better compromise would be a set of quick attach forks that could also be used as a grapple. If the space between the forks turned out to be too much of an issue something could be made to slip onto the forks that simulated the lower portion of a grapple down the road.

 

[ovrszd]

Efficiently as a grapple, probably not. But with a bucket to push the brush into a pile to grab it. I've cleared brush with everything from an old 3 wheel ATV and a chain after piling it up by hand to using my backhoe bucket to pinch it against the dipper stick. If I had a thumb on it I doubt I would have much of a use for a grapple on my compact. If the space between the thumb and the bucket was adjustable I could only imagine the size of rocks I could lift.

I've found that until I win the Power Ball I have to make compromises. I have a set of clamp on forks (a compromise that has the extreme penalty of moving the weight far in front of the pivot pins) that I use often. A better compromise would be a set of quick attach forks that could also be used as a grapple. If the space between the forks turned out to be too much of an issue something could be made to slip onto the forks that simulated the lower portion of a grapple down the road.

I totally understand compromise. A Grapple addition is usually expensive because the host tractor is not plumbed for it. By the time you buy a Grapple and buy the necessary hydraulics you'll have thousands of dollars invested. Often hard to justify. Until you have it. Then hard to understand not having one.

Forks with a claw are very effective forks. But they aren't a Grapple. They are cheaper, but less effective.

An example, your Avatar pic. With a Grapple you could have moved all those rocks and never left the seat.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Forks with a grapple can't be too "less" effective, as they will do many things a dedicated grapple can't do!

SR

 

[TripleR]

Way to go Larry. No personal responsibility. Totally dumped it on James and I. Way to go........

My mom always said I ran with the wrong crowd and was easily influenced...

Richard, you reckon he meant to throw us under the bus?

If you can't throw you're friends under the bus, who can you.

 

[BTDT2]

FWIW - I have both and find myself using the one-lid the most. I use the two-lid only when needing the width advantage of having the same footprint width of my tractor e.g working a fenceline

 

[ovrszd]

Forks with a grapple can't be too "less" effective, as they will do many things a dedicated grapple can't do!

SR

And visa versa.

 

[k0ua]

My mom always said I ran with the wrong crowd and was easily influenced...



If you can't throw you're friends under the bus, who can you.

That's what friends are for. Glad to help. :thumbsup:

 

[Sawyer Rob]

And visa versa.

NOT exactly!

There are NOT "many" things that a dedicated grapple will do, that my pallet forks/grapple won't also do...

SR

 

[ovrszd]

NOT exactly!

There are NOT "many" things that a dedicated grapple will do, that my pallet forks/grapple won't also do...

SR

Rob, I'm gonna just let you live your fantasy.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Rob, I'm gonna just let you live your fantasy.

Well, that's one way to answer, when you can't "prove your point"...

All it would take is pictures... lol

SR