My grapple works great as a brush rake and ground scraper.
Yes I can see that it would. It reaches pretty far out. I bet that grapple would tip my little tractor up on its front wheels!
My preference is to have the brushfork below (as is), and my stick-rakes on a grapple hand (another brushfork) coming down from above. Essentially a very light-duty grapple, not suitable for stumps or rocks, but specifically for cleaning up sticks and making burn piles. I have a LOT of sticks.
I have been thinking about the amount of pressure that I want on the ground from my rake, and have decides it's better if it doesn't dig up the existing grass, because that gives the weeds an advantage to grow instead.
Last time I was out, I had to
1) Scrape up piles of sticks (by reversing)
2) Push them up into higher piles (carefully pushing forward with rakes)
3) Remove rakes from the brushforks and carry sticks to the burnpile (with the brushfork)
4) Remove the brushforks and scoop with the bucket; dump the small stuff over a bank.
I cleaned up a large area quickly like this.
Before, there were lots of sticks and dead bushes (= more sticks) with grass & weeds tangling thru all this, all trying to get some sun. It takes until mid summer for the grass to get about a foot tall and start to cover the sticks and stuff, so it finally appears greener than the sticks in late June. So it just looks trashy for most of the spring.
Now (fall) it looks nice and finished and the ground is not too disturbed, and if any sticks they are small and laying flat on the ground. In the springtime once the grass is 3 inches tall there will be no sticks or dirt visible and it will look "green". Anyway thats the look I want.
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