sd455dan
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Thanks, I was thinking that...
Great buy. And Contrats
I think you will find that the open tine design excels at penetrating into brush piles, stall cleaning and slash piles due to not having a tie all the way across the front of the tines.
Another neat feature of the round tine design is that extensions of round tubing can easily be made to slide over the tines.
I did this with mine and it is helpful when cleaning up a lot of branches from downed trees. I get a grapple full and squeeze it and then slide on the extensions and lock nut them onto a couple of tines.
Open the grapple and then can hand load a bunch more. I have also just slid under the pile and grappled with the extensions but one needs to be careful to not dig the extensions in.
Anyway I think you will be well pleased with your new tined grapple. :thumbsup: