Grappling fun - A Picture Thread....

[4570Man]

Burying them around here doesn't work out because they were already on top of solid rock.

 

[dragoneggs]

My experience is it takes a bunch of fires to get a big stump to burn and if there's very many on the pile you can't get it to burn at all. On my recent land clearing I burnt all the stumps smaller than about 12" and hauled off the rest.

I only put one big ole stump on the pile at a time. And yeah it takes a few burns to 'bury' it. But I can't legally burn huge fires. Limited to 3ft by 3ft by law but I measure that as size of fire not pile. The regs aren't clear. :laughing: After a day burn the stump is a good base for the next few lights.

I quit burning, just too much work. Either I bury them (when I rent an excavator to take out key stumps I'll just dig a hole where they were and drop them back down) or I dump them elsewhere (now that I have a tractor that has more grunt, and a grapple!).

Maybe you have too big of equipment. You must not be wrestling big evergreen stumps with a BX sized tractor!

 

[4570Man]

Having to big of equipment isn't possible. I had to fight several big ones pretty hard with a 15,000 pound CTL. I couldn't turn the some of the big ones over with my tractor. Loading all of the big ones was a hopeless effort with the tractor. I had to use my backhoe to dig as much dirt as possible off as possible before the CTL would load them.

 

[dragoneggs]

Having to big of equipment isn't possible. I had to fight several big ones pretty hard with a 15,000 pound CTL.

Now you're talking! I'm humbled with only my little BX beast.

 

[4570Man]

Now you're talking! I'm humbled with only my little BX beast.

I know the feeling. I've never had that small a tractor but the big ones kicked my L3240s butt.

 

[EverythingAttachments]

Here's a picture from today's grappling adventures (pretty sure that this trunk was right around 2k lbs; I moved an even bigger tree trunk, but the tractor really struggled; one side of the trunk (a "Y") was kind of sliding on the ground- since I can't say that it was truly dead-lifted I can't claim it as a grapple trophy!):

:shocked: No words. :shocked:
Travis

 

[Citydude]

Doing some thinning and off to the burn pile. I used to carry a grapple full down to the pile until I seen the use of a trailer here on TBN. Welding a hitch on the back of my Farmi has saved me miles of back and forth with my tractor.

 

[wsc9tt]

EA Wicked Grapple can just barely pick up my large square bales.

 

[EverythingAttachments]

EA Wicked Grapple can just barely pick up my large square bales.

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That's a mouthful for sure! Nice view!
Travis

 

[Xfaxman]

Doing some thinning and off to the burn pile. I used to carry a grapple full down to the pile until I seen the use of a trailer here on TBN. Welding a hitch on the back of my Farmi has saved me miles of back and forth with my tractor.
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Yep, I have been known to load the 8x16 deckover, then hook on and pull it to the burn pile.

 

[xcgreene]

Igland Sundown GR 40 Grapple, same as a Frostbite, just not as expensive.

 

[IslandTractor]

Igland Sundown GR 40 Grapple, same as a Frostbite, just not as expensive.

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You must have photoshopped that grapple load! Wise people know that narrow grapples simply cannot carry such wide loads.

 

[xcgreene]

You must have photoshopped that grapple load! Wise people know that narrow grapples simply cannot carry such wide loads.

Wise people know that one should never rely on the width of their grapple to compensate for an off center lift .

So far its been a great logging/general purpose grapple. The extension teeth and rock plate are a must for it though.

 

[TomSeller]

Wise people know that one should never rely on the width of their grapple to compensate for an off center lift .

So far its been a great logging/general purpose grapple. The extension teeth and rock plate are a must for it though.

And wise people know that a single lid like that can't "hold down" a load like that.

 

[xcgreene]

And wise people know that a single lid like that can't "hold down" a load like that.

I think what the photo isn't showing very well are the red teeth extensions that are underneath the bottom hackmatack tree. The have also been drying out for 2 years.

 

[k0ua]

Burying them around here doesn't work out because they were already on top of solid rock.

Same here. If I were to bury a stump, I would need a case of dynamite to blast out a hole to put it in.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

I think what the photo isn't showing very well are the red teeth extensions that are underneath the bottom hackmatack tree. The have also been drying out for 2 years.

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Can you post or PM me a closer photo of those teeth and how they attach? Thanks!

 

[xcgreene]

Can you post or PM me a closer photo of those teeth and how they attach? Thanks!

Sure, You can see here in this photo, they simply bolt to the grapple. There are holes in the lower 2 tongs of the grapple itself, the teeth have corresponding holes that are also recessed to get the bolthead out of harms way. There are locknuts underneath.

 

[TomSeller]

Sure, You can see here in this photo, they simply bolt to the grapple. There are holes in the lower 2 tongs of the grapple itself, the teeth have corresponding holes that are also recessed to get the bolthead out of harms way. There are locknuts underneath.

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That grapple must have a good under bite to grab loads with

 

[PhysAssist]

I quit burning, just too much work. Either I bury them (when I rent an excavator to take out key stumps I'll just dig a hole where they were and drop them back down) or I dump them elsewhere (now that I have a tractor that has more grunt, and a grapple!).

That's what they guy who cleared the land and built the house we bought did, and for the last 20 years, I have been filling [usually after falling into] the sinkholes that developed when the stumps rotted away and left previously flat land unsupported.

Once early on, as I was walking over to look look closer at what looked to be a new 6-8" hole in our grassy yard, I fell in with one leg all the way to my hip joint- luckily I was young and more flexible in those days, but what a shocker it was anyway.

Now that we have a [little] tractor to move them with, we put them on the burn pile instead [of leaving them in the woods].

They do take a while to burn though- some of the cedar stumps [pieces now] in our burn pile are left over from up to 3 or 4 burns over the past 5 or so years.