Hey, piranha tooth bar people!

[MF RED in MT]

I make them 1200 pixels wide, which is what I've always done(for like almost 10 years). What are you viewing on? How do they look to everyone else? Just curious because I do not have any perspective if it's an apple product.
Travis

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Just a thought on your large pics, maybe you could just take a bite or two more out of that Apple Product, it is larger than most pictures and fills up the whole page.

KC

 

[Imold]

How's the wife feeling, dude...hopefully doing better.

Chomping down and reversing while ripping things out by the roots is where the ratchet rake has a leg up on the piranha bar. But for forward-motion applications, piranha bar has the clear advantage coz you could slice through things and dig with it, as well as rip things out of the ground, whereas the RR could only rip things out.

However, one other advantage the rake has is I found it's great as a mini cultivator. You could make a chunk of land very level with a piranha bar, but then have to work the spot to get it ready for seed. With the ratchet rake, you level and break up soil and all that, it's a real time saver for prepping for seeding.

Wife is doing better, but the best news is she did not suffer any permanent Heart Damage, she is on Oxygen at night for awhile now but should get rid of it in a month or so.

The Ratchet Rake has its place in the line of attachments to have but right now it is not for me, if I had a lot of Pine trees to deal with I would own a ratchet rake for sure and it would make a nice mini cultivator for sure.

 

[Imold]

Please NO more posting Wicked Grapples until the SNOW is gone and the ground is thawed out I cannot concentrate on The other things I need to get done or buy this winter when all I see are these awesome pics of the grapples everywhere, once I get my tiller it won’t be so bad but right now it takes my focus away from looking at tillers which will make my life easier and the wife happy. Happy Wife Happy Life.

Ok you know I am just kidding about grapple pics I like them all and eventually I will own one in a Black or Red color.

 

[GeneV]

Good to hear wife doing ok, bud! My neighbor just lost his wife to cancer this last monday morning. It's so sad, we like them both lots...actually we all went out to eat and had a few drinks not long ago. She looked great at the time, I thought she had this thing beat.

 

[GeneV]

Yeh, that wicked grapple is pretty **** sweet, that's for sure.

 

[Imold]

We have lost 5 friends this last year, four to cancer and one liver disease, the hardest was my best friends wife.

I really Ike the looks of the 55” wicked grapple but I also have looked at a clam shell type bucket that the PB would work on for about 1/3 the cost.

 

[GeneV]

We have lost 5 friends this last year, four to cancer and one liver disease, the hardest was my best friends wife.

I really Ike the looks of the 55” wicked grapple but I also have looked at a clam shell type bucket that the PB would work on for about 1/3 the cost.

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Looks legit, yeh. I got a youtube bud I follow, Houndsman, forgot which grapple brand he got, but his is a flat bottom, root rake design, open skeleton. What he does is line the bottom and back end with a sheet of plywood, zipties it in place, so he could convert from open to closed design, pretty smart!

 

[Imold]

I do not have a lot of Forestry stuff to do on my property it is more of just clean up of branches and tress that’s get blown over in bad weather and that is not very much that is why the clam shell design appeals to me a bit more, I can still move dirt and sand but yet I can grab down fall with it also, I also need to put a 3rd controller on for the grapple part and that’s another 700.00-800.00 dollars above the cost of the attachment. Talked with wife and it looks like April is when I will get a tiller, just a basic 48” reverse tine, leaning towards a King Kutter.

 

[GeneV]

I do not have a lot of Forestry stuff to do on my property it is more of just clean up of branches and tress that’s get blown over in bad weather and that is not very much that is why the clam shell design appeals to me a bit more, I can still move dirt and sand but yet I can grab down fall with it also, I also need to put a 3rd controller on for the grapple part and that’s another 700.00-800.00 dollars above the cost of the attachment. Talked with wife and it looks like April is when I will get a tiller, just a basic 48” reverse tine, leaning towards a King Kutter.

Ah yeh ok. Right now for branches and trees I use the clamp on forks. They work ok enough when they're on, but it's a pain pinning them on. If I got sick of mounting them and/or get as old as you (just kidding haha), yeh I debated would I get a grapple or skid steer mount forks? If I had your tractor, I'd go grapple too. You could also put on a snow blade, can now both angle and tilt with the 3rd function, I could see that being handy.

Having a backhoe is pretty sweet tho. I only used it once for this so far, but I grabbed big limbs with the hoe/thumb, chopped them up over a cart, hauled that away with the garden tractor. Forks seem ok for my brush cleanup, but I got less land to deal with than most of you guys, I'm only 2.5 acres.

Yeh, tiller, nice man. I could see that being real handy!

 

[Imold]

I looked at a add on grapple for just the bucket but the sides of the standard bucket are tall not like the clam bucket where the sides are cut down for more room for longer limbs and branches, after I get the tiller I will re evaluate the grapple, maybe just the bucket add on grapple would be ok for my needs and besides I do have a cutting torch so I can cut the sides of the bucket down and then reinforce the sides if I decide it would work better, I do consider the HF trencher I bought part of my scut now and I did just order a thumb for it to help move some of the felled trees and rocks that are on my property now.
I will take another look at just the bucket add on grapple, maybe that is all I really need. K.I.S.S.

 

[suburbanfarmer]

OP
I had to clear out an acre of cat tails in very wet and swampy area. I used a regular riding lawn mower by opening its deflector flap open with high flow blades. Went very slow and got it cleared up in around 8 hours.
I did get it stuck once but got off it and picked it up out of muck and kept on going.

 

[GeneV]

OP
I had to clear out an acre of cat tails in very wet and swampy area. I used a regular riding lawn mower by opening its deflector flap open with high flow blades. Went very slow and got it cleared up in around 8 hours.
I did get it stuck once but got off it and picked it up out of muck and kept on going.

Appreciate the comment, but naw that don't work here, been there done that. I'm gonna see if I could rip them out somehow while leaving the grass, we'll see.

 

[suburbanfarmer]

Appreciate the comment, but naw that don't work here, been there done that. I'm gonna see if I could rip them out somehow while leaving the grass, we'll see.

Rent a walk behind brush cutter Thats does about an acre in 2hrs

 

[GeneV]

I looked at a add on grapple for just the bucket but the sides of the standard bucket are tall not like the clam bucket where the sides are cut down for more room for longer limbs and branches, after I get the tiller I will re evaluate the grapple, maybe just the bucket add on grapple would be ok for my needs and besides I do have a cutting torch so I can cut the sides of the bucket down and then reinforce the sides if I decide it would work better, I do consider the HF trencher I bought part of my scut now and I did just order a thumb for it to help move some of the felled trees and rocks that are on my property now.
I will take another look at just the bucket add on grapple, maybe that is all I really need. K.I.S.S.

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Yeh, I saw precision mfg's add-a-grapple, that thing is pretty sweet with how you could take it off real fast when not needed. But I was thinking same thing, the bucket sides get in the way. I'm curious, cost comparison, buying a beater ssqa bucket, cutting out the sides to how you want them, and then mounting the grapple thumb on it, vs just buying a real grapple.

But really, to me this is about as handy as it gets: Add A Grapple to Your Pallet Forks and Save $$$ - YouTube

 

[GeneV]

Rent a walk behind brush cutter Thats does about an acre in 2hrs

I hear ya man, thx!

 

[Imold]

My Thumb showed up today so now I have a reason to heat the shop up for a bit.


This is the Titan bolt on grapple I have been looking at for around a grand, I have seen it a bit cheaper then listed here and then I still need to and on 3rd function for 7-800.00 bucks.




If I had a SSQH on my FEL then I would probably go a different route, I do not want to get overly invested in the 1705 in case I upgrade in a couple years.

 

[GeneV]

Naw man, that's expensive. Check this out first: Precision Manufacturing Mini Grapple 11155 111155

 

[Imold]

Naw man, that's expensive. Check this out first: Precision Manufacturing Mini Grapple 11155 111155

Thanks, that’s the one I seen awhile back and yes that is right up my alley. I knew I had seen it cheaper and it’s the same one if you compare pics. Shipping and tax bring it to 1000.00.

 

[GeneV]

Whoops, tax and shipping, didn't figure that in. So I guess around the same price as titan's grapple on amazon, like a hundred less maybe.

 

[MF RED in MT]

My Thumb showed up today so now I have a reason to heat the shop up for a bit.
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This is the Titan bolt on grapple I have been looking at for around a grand, I have seen it a bit cheaper then listed here and then I still need to and on 3rd function for 7-800.00 bucks.

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If I had a SSQH on my FEL then I would probably go a different route, I do not want to get overly invested in the 1705 in case I upgrade in a couple years.

Very nice, and it looks like Santa make a second trip to your place after Christmas.

KC