Grapple TITAN / EXTREME ROOT GRAPPLE

tomt574 · Mar 10, 2020

Anyone have any experience with the Titan Extreme Root Grapple. I am looking at the 60" model. I was trying to keep it somewhat smaller and low in weight. My use will be for smaller trees while building roads in the woods on my property. No rocks so that's not an issue. I thought keeping it lighter in weight would help with pulling power, less load on the machine. This guy weighs 890 lbs which is actually a little more than I was hoping for. I like the rake style grapple with closer together hooks like this Titan has. Price is good at about $1900 bucks. Has Dual cylinders which is what I want. Would like to hear any reviews on it. Good or Bad. Thanks

seschlanger · Mar 10, 2020

tomt574 said:
Anyone have any experience with the Titan Extreme Root Grapple. I am looking at the 60" model. I was trying to keep it somewhat smaller and low in weight. My use will be for smaller trees while building roads in the woods on my property. No rocks so that's not an issue. I thought keeping it lighter in weight would help with pulling power, less load on the machine. This guy weighs 890 lbs which is actually a little more than I was hoping for. I like the rake style grapple with closer together hooks like this Titan has. Price is good at about $1900 bucks. Has Dual cylinders which is what I want. Would like to hear any reviews on it. Good or Bad. Thanks

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Have not had experience with the grapple, but the Titan Tree Puller I bought is now a powder coated boat anchor after about 40 hours of use. See my post.

Hozzie · Mar 10, 2020

For that kind of money I would be looking at Everything Attachments. It will be a bit more expensive, but worth it in my view. I have the 66" double lid grapple and couldn't be happier. You know it will be right with EA. Although I do have a couple of smaller Titan attachments, a grapple probably wouldn't be one of them. Too much stress to not know if you got one that was welded correctly to start.

If you are talking about really pulling trees out of the ground, this is the wrong tool. I have a Notch Tree puller as well. It's a beast and worth every penny if you really want to pull trees. If you are going to just cut them down and then use a grapple to move them, then the above would work.

GSVette · Mar 10, 2020

I have the 72” Titan dual lid and am more than satisfied with it-I haven’t abused it but have used it to grapple so pretty good size logs and such. It has held up just fine.

ericm979 · Mar 10, 2020

that grapple weighs 815 lbs. It's made for skid steers which have greater lift capacity than a CUT.

The 60" EA Wicked grapple I have weighs 440. That leaves close to 400lbs more capacity for contents.

dusty3030 · Mar 10, 2020

The first grapple I bought was a Titan because I could pick it up directly from them locally. It was OK but bent up pretty easily and I had to be real careful to not twist it apart. Photos of my old tractor are on their web page for this grapple (one with the house in background).
Titan 48" Grapple Bucket Attachment fits John Deere 2 3 4 5 Loaders

The second one I bought for my Kubota was from Everything Attachments and it has been far better. I can work it harder than I was able to the Titan one.
Best Rated 60 Inch Wicked Root Rake Grapple from Everything Attachments

tomt574 · Mar 10, 2020

ericm979 said:
that grapple weighs 815 lbs. It's made for skid steers which have greater lift capacity than a CUT.

The 60" EA Wicked grapple I have weighs 440. That leaves close to 400lbs more capacity for contents.

I will have to check it out. I currently have all Bush Hog attatchments. Just dont have a grapple. Was a little concerned on Titan. I heard a lot of complaints about a sloppy fit on Titan. I will have to check out EA.

tomt574 · Mar 10, 2020

Thanks for all the info. I will check it out

seschlanger · Mar 10, 2020

tomt574 said:
Thanks for all the info. I will check it out

Just to be absolutely clear, I own three Titan Manufacturing and Distribution attachments. A 1/2" quick tach plate, a single tine ripper, and the tree puller. Sounds a bit strange to say, but all were fine until the ripper and the tree puller failed. The ripper was easy. The pin at the pivot point is designed to fail; the surprise was how little force it required to cause it to fail. The tree puller experienced a catastrophic failure of the stationary jaw at the point of attachment (see: Hiding in Plain Sight ). The puller had been used +- 40 hrs but was beyond the warranty period. What began as an effort to post a Purchase Verified Review on their site, after a month of trying, turned into nine phone calls and thirty five emails between Barbara, Hezron, Cameron, Paul, and lastly Daitandra, and myself. I do not include the seven emails with the Memphis BBB. Quite an impressive spread of "explanations" but no review posted.
What Titan Manufacturing and Distribution calls Customer Service can best be described with one word: atrocious. As I explained to Daitandra this afternoon, if I were in business, I would not expect to be around long with the kind of responses offered by their contact services staff. In the interest of fairness and accuracy, I wish i could post the 35 emails.
To the prospective buyer: do your homework and look past the shiny powder coat and the glowing reviews.