Bucket Hooks Tine Bucket opinions

[Spydermike72]

Good Morning All, I am looking for a cost effective way to pick up lots of brush and limbs/trees on the ground and move them to another area on the property (I have 20 acres). The obvious choice is a grapple hook but the finances are not there at the moment. My tractor dealer quoted me a Tine Bucket this morning for $1800.00. Seems a bit high but I am considering it. I also ran across clamp on debris tines from Vevor at a much lower cost. Just wanted to get some opinions of those that may have purchased items from Vevor ?

For background info I am using and LS MT2 35. Currently only have the front end loader for the front of the tractor. It is a pain manually loading the FEL up with limbs and then having to break or cut up the ones that are too big to fit.

Thank you in advance!
Mike

 

[AndyMA]

Good Morning All, I am looking for a cost effective way to pick up lots of brush and limbs/trees on the ground and move them to another area on the property (I have 20 acres). The obvious choice is a grapple hook but the finances are not there at the moment. My tractor dealer quoted me a Tine Bucket this morning for $1800.00. Seems a bit high but I am considering it. I also ran across clamp on debris tines from Vevor at a much lower cost. Just wanted to get some opinions of those that may have purchased items from Vevor ?

For background info I am using and LS MT2 35. Currently only have the front end loader for the front of the tractor. It is a pain manually loading the FEL up with limbs and then having to break or cut up the ones that are too big to fit.

Thank you in advance!
Mike

https://www.palletforks.com/skid-steers/hay-handling/tine-buckets/

 

[ruffdog]

I have a Bobcat bucket with the added grapple tine kit and it works great for me. It was a lightly used bucket/grapple for $1100 so the price was right.

https://www.bobcat.com/eu/en/attachments/grapple-farm-utility-on-bucket

 

[ruffdog]

Just having the clamp on debris tines from Vevor is not going to help much....maybe double the branches per load. With a grapple, you can curl forward and compress way more debris and grab it with the grapple lid. Even a simple single lid bold on grapple would be an improvement.

 

[ruffdog]

Simple add-a-grapple to a bucket.

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[JCoastie]

did hurricane cleanup with forks, it worked, but I quickly bought a grapple. If you see yourself staying on that 20 acre property for a while and see moving brush as a reoccurring task, really consider the grapple and of course the additional expense of the 3rd function. Just being able to grab and not needing to stack things before moving is a huge benefit for me.

 

[ruffdog]

did hurricane cleanup with forks, it worked, but I quickly bought a grapple. If you see yourself staying on that 20 acre property for a while and see moving brush as a reoccurring task, really consider the grapple and of course the additional expense of the 3rd function. Just being able to grab and not needing to stack things before moving is a huge benefit for me.

Agree....what would take me and wife all day moving limbs to burn pile (trailer) I could do in an hour with a grapple. Once you learn how to make piles and pick them up, it goes very fast.

 

[ruffdog]

 

[oosik]

I have bucket tines from Rankin - $400. This setup works great when I have the bucket on the FEL and need to gather up brush and limbs.

Does not work as well as my grapple ( $4500 including WR Long third function ) but not nearly as expensive ( $400 ).

I converted the "clamp on" tines to a permanent installation. Four HD bolts all the way thru the bucket.

 

[jfsawatzky]

I found myself in the same situation you ar in. I decided on debris forks…

https://www.palletforks.com/skid-steers/pallet-forks-and-accessories/clamp-on-forks/clamp-on-debris-forks-v2/CODBF.html