Huntshillhaus Farm
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Aug 1, 2018
- Messages
- 66
- Location
- South Central Missouri
- Tractor
- John Deere 2150, Husqvarna Z554
Has anyone made a removable insert to turn a wide-spaced tine root grapple into a rudimentary narrow-spaced tine rock bucket when needed?
This is sort of what's floating around in my mind... two tines of flat barstock (or round rod to shed dirt) between each main tine on the grapple, making the spacing between all tines about 2.5 inches. Expanded metal mesh on the rear riser. A 1" angle iron "lip" to hold the rock inside. Some heavy (angled) angle iron "teeth" welded at an angle off of the underside of the front flat bar stock to aid in lifting rock over the grapple bar, but are shorter than the actual grapple teeth, preventing them from snagging and bending.
Yes, I realize they make rock bucket grapples, but that's not what I have, and I don't want a rock bucket most of the time. This would just be for occasional use.
This is sort of what's floating around in my mind... two tines of flat barstock (or round rod to shed dirt) between each main tine on the grapple, making the spacing between all tines about 2.5 inches. Expanded metal mesh on the rear riser. A 1" angle iron "lip" to hold the rock inside. Some heavy (angled) angle iron "teeth" welded at an angle off of the underside of the front flat bar stock to aid in lifting rock over the grapple bar, but are shorter than the actual grapple teeth, preventing them from snagging and bending.
Yes, I realize they make rock bucket grapples, but that's not what I have, and I don't want a rock bucket most of the time. This would just be for occasional use.