Which grapple? Landpride vs EA vs MTL for Kubota L3560LE

[oosik]

ScottHam - I reread one of your posts and a thought came to mind. If you are lifting logs and having problems with balancing the load. This is, most likely, not a problem related to the grapple. Either the log is too heavy for the tractor to handle OR the log is too long. Too long will easily create an imbalance.

Be careful that an imbalance doesn't cause your tractor to tip. Your new tractor should help this situation.

I lift and move LARGE rocks and BIG chunks of pine tree trunk. Large rocks cause no imbalance because they are in the center of the grapple. I have weight charts for both the rocks and the pine tree trunks.

If the pine tree trunk is greater than 26" in diameter - I cut it to a five foot length. Less than 26" - cut to a ten foot length.

With heavy stuff like this - everything is moved uber slowly and in the "knuckle dragging" mode. The bottom of the grapple is NEVER more than 6" off the ground. It's just too easy for a wheel to drop into a swale or hole and upset everything.

 

[2manyrocks]

Unbalanced loads in a grapple try to free themselves by pushing against the rod in the cylinder on the grapple lid which can spike pressures in the hydraulic system. Every hard bump makes it worse.

 

[m1garand762]

How is the customer service from the companies in question. Just last week I hit a boulder and broke a blade on my everything attachments rotary cutter. I contacted them and within 20 hours fedex had a new set on my porch

 

[Xfaxman]

Unbalanced loads in a grapple try to free themselves by pushing against the rod in the cylinder on the grapple lid which can spike pressures in the hydraulic system. Every hard bump makes it worse.

I wonder what the pressure spiked to on my Gorilla Grapple with this concrete slab: Compact telehandler

 

[2manyrocks]

I don't know how to do the calculation, but I suppose there's a way to figure the leverage against the lid based on the depthxwidthxlength of that chunk of concrete. Probably worse when you were prying it loose from the ground.

 

[David in KY]

I wonder what the pressure spiked to on my Gorilla Grapple with this concrete slab: Compact telehandler

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WOW! That's impressive.

 

[Hersheyfarm]

I have a landpride(kubota). Not sure i could tear it up if I tried. Landpride makes some of the best stuff out there.