BX25 Grapple

[4shorts]

4shorts - Just wait until I post a picture of my above mentioned pallet forks. :laughing: My surreptitious plan is to shame you into making / posting a new project for us. :confused2: I do have a "man crush" on you... well, your work, anyway! :thumbsup: :laughing:

:laughing: Oh man you gave me a much needed laugh. I think you under estimate yourself or your just being modest. Now that your doing a few projects I'm going to lay back and relax for awhile :thumbsup:

We had a big blizzard here today. I'm uploading a video now. Should be up by morning with any luck

 

[radioman]

yooperman- since you used angled iron, I would add gussets on back of the angle iron. It should increase the strength 3fold since it becomes a triangle as its the strongest shape out there when building things for spans or lengths.

I see your point when lifting the FEL it needs to be able to release the material as the bottom is stationary against the stop....

 

[Yooperman]

GolfAddict - That Westendorf is really neat. But, I bet it suffers from the same problem I ran into. Judging from the video, it looks like it couldn't drop a log if the FEL were in its high position because the jaws cannot be rotated down. The way the jaws are curved, it looks like the lower ones would still be cradling the log when the FEL is high. Of course, I could be totally wrong... again! lol

 

[GolfAddict]

GolfAddict - That Westendorf is really neat. But, I bet it suffers from the same problem I ran into. Judging from the video, it looks like it couldn't drop a log if the FEL were in its high position because the jaws cannot be rotated down. The way the jaws are curved, it looks like the lower ones would still be cradling the log when the FEL is high. Of course, I could be totally wrong... again! lol

No, actually you're right. It is one of the drawbacks due to using the curl cylinder for the grapple function. But still a way to get some basic grapple function without having to add additional hydraulics, like yours. I like yours way better because it's more of a grapple rather than just two claws at each end. (And can be used with a single cylinder loader, of course! :thumbsup