Grappling fun - A Picture Thread....

[xcgreene]

Igland Sundown GR 40 Grapple, same as a Frostbite, just not as expensive.

 

[IslandTractor]

Igland Sundown GR 40 Grapple, same as a Frostbite, just not as expensive.

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You must have photoshopped that grapple load! Wise people know that narrow grapples simply cannot carry such wide loads.

 

[xcgreene]

You must have photoshopped that grapple load! Wise people know that narrow grapples simply cannot carry such wide loads.

Wise people know that one should never rely on the width of their grapple to compensate for an off center lift .

So far its been a great logging/general purpose grapple. The extension teeth and rock plate are a must for it though.

 

[TomSeller]

Wise people know that one should never rely on the width of their grapple to compensate for an off center lift .

So far its been a great logging/general purpose grapple. The extension teeth and rock plate are a must for it though.

And wise people know that a single lid like that can't "hold down" a load like that.

 

[xcgreene]

And wise people know that a single lid like that can't "hold down" a load like that.

I think what the photo isn't showing very well are the red teeth extensions that are underneath the bottom hackmatack tree. The have also been drying out for 2 years.

 

[k0ua]

Burying them around here doesn't work out because they were already on top of solid rock.

Same here. If I were to bury a stump, I would need a case of dynamite to blast out a hole to put it in.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

I think what the photo isn't showing very well are the red teeth extensions that are underneath the bottom hackmatack tree. The have also been drying out for 2 years.

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Can you post or PM me a closer photo of those teeth and how they attach? Thanks!

 

[xcgreene]

Can you post or PM me a closer photo of those teeth and how they attach? Thanks!

Sure, You can see here in this photo, they simply bolt to the grapple. There are holes in the lower 2 tongs of the grapple itself, the teeth have corresponding holes that are also recessed to get the bolthead out of harms way. There are locknuts underneath.

 

[TomSeller]

Sure, You can see here in this photo, they simply bolt to the grapple. There are holes in the lower 2 tongs of the grapple itself, the teeth have corresponding holes that are also recessed to get the bolthead out of harms way. There are locknuts underneath.

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That grapple must have a good under bite to grab loads with

 

[PhysAssist]

I quit burning, just too much work. Either I bury them (when I rent an excavator to take out key stumps I'll just dig a hole where they were and drop them back down) or I dump them elsewhere (now that I have a tractor that has more grunt, and a grapple!).

That's what they guy who cleared the land and built the house we bought did, and for the last 20 years, I have been filling [usually after falling into] the sinkholes that developed when the stumps rotted away and left previously flat land unsupported.

Once early on, as I was walking over to look look closer at what looked to be a new 6-8" hole in our grassy yard, I fell in with one leg all the way to my hip joint- luckily I was young and more flexible in those days, but what a shocker it was anyway.

Now that we have a [little] tractor to move them with, we put them on the burn pile instead [of leaving them in the woods].

They do take a while to burn though- some of the cedar stumps [pieces now] in our burn pile are left over from up to 3 or 4 burns over the past 5 or so years.