sd455dan
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Yes and no here. All that depends on grade of steel, strength of steel, thickness of the plate used, quality of welds, gussets, etc etc. This is where the "you get what you pay for" comes into play.I guess it depends on machine capacity and what you want to use it for. Wider gaps is probably lighter, possibly not as strong. Also build quality, wider gaps gives less structural strength so poorly manufactured units would be more at risk for the “one bad weld” to be a major failure of the system.
well I went with the land pride/kubota grapple. Stumbled on rg3068 and got a good price I believe, $3500. The land pride stuff is very well built. Steel hydraulic lines and 3/4 tines on the grapples and 1/2 on the bottom. The tines are are spaced 9". The info in this thread tells me 6" would have been better but I liked the land pride stuff. Oh well, this obsessive researching for the best grapple for me is over. lolI have a Land Pride SGC 1560 rock & root grapple. About 95% of the time - used to move large rocks and huge chunks of pine tree trunk. Tine spacing is 6". The other 5% - scraping up brush and limbs.
I've had it seven + years now. Proven to be an excellent implement.
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You'll be happy with it. No worries.well I went with the land pride/kubota grapple. Stumbled on rg3068 and got a good price I believe, $3500. The land pride stuff is very well built. Steel hydraulic lines and 3/4 tines on the grapples and 1/2 on the bottom. The tines are are spaced 9". The info in this thread tells me 6" would have been better but I liked the land pride stuff. Oh well, this obsessive researching for the best grapple for me is over. lol
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