Help choosing the best bucket/grapple for firewood/logs please.

[KiwiBro]

Just my 2 cents.....

I think you will have problems trying to buck the logs when clamped inside the grapple, the pressure from the jaws will cause binding as the wood is cut and it shifts. The use of a spacer log to keep from hitting the back of the attachment is an invitation for kickback.

An open ended attachment isn't going to work well for loading firewood, you'll have pieces of firewood falling all over the place. A large skeleton (rock) bucket with sides added would probably be best here.

This is what I use for log handling:

Ed

Thanks. Grapple pressure causing binding hadn't been considered but should be. We're trying to avoid dumping the middle 72+ inches of logs into a cradle for bucking them up. Is there a way to back the grapple pressures off a little or are they usually either on as much as possible or off with no way to adjust?

 

[KiwiBro]

I've pondered this myself. This is the simplest solution I could come up with. It is no good if you need to gently place logs up and over a trailer but it does everything else you ask for. They are also very good at gathering and piling slash. There are added benefits even when moving snow as the tines are able to double the capacity of the bucket. They fit on exactly as a tooth bar would with a lip catching the cutting edge. The key to these tines is the slight bend at the tip. This allows them to get under things like stems and such where you simply roll them up to the bucket alot easier than if they were straight.
The bend also allows you to scrape the ground without digging straight into the ground.

Thank you. It's comforting knowing we're not alone. Was beginning to think we were 'special' in the wrong kind of way.

 

[CTMassey]

Ive been wondering how the "stump bucket with grapple" would work from Wildkat attachements.......the shorter bucket width would let you cut the logs down to a shorter length, and you should be able to pick up brush as well......no loading firewood though......