Ebay tootbar

[Oleozz]

Nice looking setup, mine will look pretty much the same except they are sending me a regular toothbar, should arrive the end of this week. How do you like your Dehner welding grapple? I have mine attached to the top of the bucket without any extra support like you have, the tractor dealer had told me to keep the grapple as far back as possible on the top of the bucket and he thought I wouldn't have any problems with strength.

 

[chanceu]

The grapple is great, but it's a little over kill for my TC24. The pictures and comparing it to "The Thumb" didn't make it seem so big.

The mount isn't quite strong enough for the grapple. I used a piece of channel instead of rectangular tube for less weight, but the grapple pretty much has it's way with the channel (see the pic). I ended up having to add a couple "clamps" that hook the channel to the top lip of the bucket.

I didn't hook directly to the bucket because the grapple is 28" and the bucket opening is 24". The mount raises the grapple so the tips are about 1/4" below the bottom edge of the bucket. I also figured I'd rather rip off a piece of $15 channel than the top of my bucket if something went wrong.