American Solutions grapple for BX 23??

[Berniep]

Anyone have a grapple from these folks.
A search from all the posts from the last year brought up a couple of mentions but thats about it.
I am set to get a BX 23 and wan't to get a grapple to go with it.
If not I might be the first person on here to review it.
Just got the wife to approve the purchase of the tractor. The dealer doesn't have any in stock but says there are two on the way.
I will have to pin him down on a time frame next week.
Another dealer we went to today said he can't keep them they are selling fast.
Bernie

 

[Junkman]

I have a grapple from American Products and love it. The model for the BX23 is in the works and hopefully will be ready for sale shortly. The difference is in the valve mounting, which is in a "design" state now. If you do a search for "Junkman & grapple" you should come up with some of the old posts about my grapple. If you have specific question, I will be glad to answer them for you. Junk...

 

[Berniep]

So thats what "Pre-order" means on their website.
It does state that you get your deposit back if the product does not ship within 90 days so they must expect to have a finnished product soon.
Bernie

 

[Junkman]

The Pre Order is if they were to get swamped with hundreds of orders all at once and couldn't manufacturer all that were ordered fast enough. I doubt that would ever happen, but the owner of the company wanted to cover all bases. There are units already built and ready for shipping for the original BX series. However, the second generation BX use a different loader valve set up and a new mounting bracket had to be designed for this. The grapple valve mounting for this new series is presently under design & testing. If you were to order a grapple, my best guess is that it would be shipped within that 90 day period. Since only the axillary valve mounting had to be redesigned this should be available shortly. All the rest of the components remain the same.

 

[Ronster]

Junkman, does American Products have a web sight? The only grapple I could find for compact sized loaders was ATI Corp. at www.Preseeder.com. Did you have to add a remote hyd valve?

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

Yes they have a web site, see below.

web page

 

[Berniep]

OK that makes sense.
I have sent them an e-mail. Hopefully they will get back to me sometime next week. I really like the idea of not having to chase down all the valves and fittings.
Bernie