Grappled with Millonzi, and paid the price.

gmercer · Dec 10, 2007

Yes, that might be a good way to go. Especially, if you are just starting out buying implements. I now have 3 JD pin style impelments, so I guess I am too far down that road to turn back now.

Someone mentioned in an earlier post that Millonzi charges more for pin specific mounts. Not sure if that is the case or not. I only had one price quoted to me and that was for the JD quick attache pin mount. BTW price was $975 and shipping to Florida brought the total to $1145. Price may be less for skid steer mount.

IslandTractor · Dec 10, 2007

gmercer said:
Someone mentioned in an earlier post that Millonzi charges more for pin specific mounts. Not sure if that is the case or not. I only had one price quoted to me and that was for the JD quick attache pin mount. BTW price was $975 and shipping to Florida brought the total to $1145. Price may be less for skid steer mount.

They keep changing their prices so it is hard to know but in the past they have seemed to add $100-150 for the pin specific mounts as they need to fabricate those individually and don't stock them. That was the price I was quoted a few years ago.

RedRocker · Dec 10, 2007

Silver_Knight said:
Geez, years of posts and not a single bad post regarding Millonzi....until I order one. My shipping was rather slow also. Have not installed the LD60 grapple or the pallet forks yet. I'll find out later this week how the QA plates fit and how the grapple works.

Don't get up tight, they're a great grapple, mine was just the first pin mount they did.

garth466 · Dec 11, 2007

I just talked to Jackie over at that Milonzi and she told me they have some for immediate ship. 66" grapple was $1600 and change.

wedge40 · Dec 16, 2007

garth466 said:
I just talked to Jackie over at that Milonzi and she told me they have some for immediate ship. 66" grapple was $1600 and change.

I'm curious, does that include shipping.?
I was quoted $1305 without any mounts for the LD-60. I only live about 300 miles away and figured I could drive up some Friday and pick it up.

Wedge

justcountry · Feb 9, 2008

Hey guys, I just ordered a 48" millonzi LD, it should be here in another week, It shipped out yesterday. I got it for $1,048 including shipping to FL. I mentioned TBN. Jackie Luster helped me out a bunch and is even sending me a free t_shirt. I pieced together a 3rd function valve from Surplus center after a lot of help from Larrry Guglio on here. He did the same. I've got $360 into the whole valve and all hoses and fittings and wiring. I ended up using a trim/tilt handle off a boating controls for my control switch. It fits tightly over my loader joystick AND is WEATHERPROOF! I was going to go with the Long 3rd function, but they wanted 650. locally. I'll post some pics after I get everything together.

Mike058 · Feb 10, 2008

Trim control switch from a boat, I love it when a plan comes together. Be sure and take pictures

justcountry said:
Hey guys, I just ordered a 48" millonzi LD, it should be here in another week, It shipped out yesterday. I got it for $1,048 including shipping to FL. I mentioned TBN. Jackie Luster helped me out a bunch and is even sending me a free t_shirt. I pieced together a 3rd function valve from Surplus center after a lot of help from Larrry Guglio on here. He did the same. I've got $360 into the whole valve and all hoses and fittings and wiring. I ended up using a trim/tilt handle off a boating controls for my control switch. It fits tightly over my loader joystick AND is WEATHERPROOF! I was going to go with the Long 3rd function, but they wanted 650. locally. I'll post some pics after I get everything together.

gmercer · Feb 11, 2008

Glad this is working out for you. Jackie seems to be the best over at Millonzi to work with. She stepped up for me when my original salesman bailed out, and she got the grapple to me. About the same cost as your's Justcountry. Post pictures when you get it mounted. Thanks and good luck.

bigballer · Feb 27, 2008

has anyone purchased one of these pin-on grapples for the L3400/LA463 Kubota? Is it a tedious job of sawpping the bucket for grapple? Any special tookl required?

I was quoted $845 (25% TBN discount) for the LD-48 pin on style (no longer more expensive compared to QA). shipping is roughly another $350 to WA.

IslandTractor · Feb 29, 2008

bigballer said:
has anyone purchased one of these pin-on grapples for the L3400/LA463 Kubota? Is it a tedious job of sawpping the bucket for grapple? Any special tookl required?.

The first time it will take you half an hour probably but like most things it gets quicker with practice. I'd guesstimate 15minutes max. It is just about the same as putting on a 3pt implement and easier than putting on a backhoe.

No special tools. Just pull the pins to take the bucket/grapple off then line up the FEL with the top pin hole on the grapple/bucket and use a little shoving or lever to get the holes lined up reasonably well then shove the pin in and hammer it home. A tapered pin like steel workers use to line up rivit holes on big beams would be a nice tool to have but I dont' have one. After getting the top pins in place I usually then just lifted the loader and jiggled the bucket/grapple until the lower pins were lined up.

It is definitely faster to use a universal QA mount but I wouldn't hesitate to use the pin mount version if I did not want to use the QA for anything else. I do use a QA tree boom and QA forks in addition to the grapple so pin mount would not work for me.