MickeyDBC
Gold Member
I bought an Armstrong Ag 72" 6.5" spacing brush rake grapple when I bought my Kioti RX7320 and finally have time to do a mini review on it. This one is heavier than the Everything Attachments style at about 850 pounds but it does have a heavier top gate. I have mostly used it for scraping up cattle feed areas (caked together crap and stomped in hay) and digging out old concrete footings (totally different things) and it has worked well for both.
These concrete footings are about 16" deep and 8" wide and up to 16 foot long and buried about half way into the ground. The grapple had no time grabbing them but I did lift the back of the tractor off the ground a couple of times even with loaded rear tires and a 1200 pound box blade on the back (the Kioti loader is very stout). I have also used it to pull up about 50 old T posts from an abandoned electric fence and it made the job quick and easy.
So far I am very happy with the grapple, only managed to wear paint off of it and not bend anything. Only real downside is it makes the tractor a little more fore and aft pitchy on rough terrain due to the weight, but I did use it to help pull the tractor out of a muddy low spot that it was getting stuck in (grabbed some drier ground in front of the tractor and curled and closed the grapple and it pulled it out). Would I buy it again - Yes. Would I use it on a smaller tractor? Not much smaller or it would use up too much of the lift capacity.
These concrete footings are about 16" deep and 8" wide and up to 16 foot long and buried about half way into the ground. The grapple had no time grabbing them but I did lift the back of the tractor off the ground a couple of times even with loaded rear tires and a 1200 pound box blade on the back (the Kioti loader is very stout). I have also used it to pull up about 50 old T posts from an abandoned electric fence and it made the job quick and easy.
So far I am very happy with the grapple, only managed to wear paint off of it and not bend anything. Only real downside is it makes the tractor a little more fore and aft pitchy on rough terrain due to the weight, but I did use it to help pull the tractor out of a muddy low spot that it was getting stuck in (grabbed some drier ground in front of the tractor and curled and closed the grapple and it pulled it out). Would I buy it again - Yes. Would I use it on a smaller tractor? Not much smaller or it would use up too much of the lift capacity.
