Grapple W.R. Long Grapple

IslandTractor · Nov 15, 2007

jpm said:
i have mine set up with 3 extra valves.i think it was easier and less expensive than devierter valve

Easier maybe, less expensive surely but cute....not really!

Did you never have a standard FEL controller or did you just replace it?

jpm · Nov 18, 2007

island,the fel valve is still there.this valve hooks to the pb circuit and i did clean up the hose run's after i made sure everything work right

IslandTractor · Nov 19, 2007

jpm said:
island,the fel valve is still there.this valve hooks to the pb circuit and i did clean up the hose run's after i made sure everything work right

If you still have the standard FEL controller, why are there two additional valves? I'd think you would only need one for open/close grapple.

jpm · Nov 19, 2007

t n t of course

or any thing that needed valves

IslandTractor · Nov 19, 2007

Gotcha. So you don't have rear remotes and you use the "dash" mounted remotes for both rear and front. Very clever.

jpm · Nov 20, 2007

i have 1 rear remote so i could have a t or t but not t n t

and the price of a 3 valve is very close to a 1 so on it went .if you wanted to go crazy you could put as many as can fit

dknarnd · Dec 1, 2007

Well I picked up my RBG2-60 grapple today; have it sitting on my trailer waiting for my trip to the farm this next weekend. Only problem is I'm going up for the last weekend of hunting season so I probably won't get it installed on this trip and since it's Christmas time I probably won't be heading back up until New Years. Oh well my projects will still be there next year!

IslandTractor · Dec 1, 2007

Man, are you going to be able to survive looking at that grapple in your driveway every day for a month and not be able to use it??? Play hooky. Get that puppy installed and send us some pics.

tractorman · Dec 2, 2007

We've been selling the the RBG72's for the 35/40/45 Case IH & New Holland Tractors. It's a light enough attachment that it doesn't eat up all your lift capacity. Good Luck!

IslandTractor · Dec 2, 2007

tractorman said:
We've been selling the the RBG72's for the 35/40/45 Case IH & New Holland Tractors. It's a light enough attachment that it doesn't eat up all your lift capacity. Good Luck!

While you are certainly right that it "doesn't eat up all your lift capacity" it certainly would eat up a very large portion of it. Looking at the 250TL loader for the 40/45hp NHs that have about 2000lbs lift capacity then adding a 665lb grapple is eating up a full third of that lift capacity and leaves you with only 1345lbs to work with. Compare that to adding a 280lb grapple which would leave 1720lbs. That is a pretty big difference, almost 400lbs of extra lift capacity. It wouldn't interfer with moving brush but it could certainly limit your ability to move rocks and trees.

WR Long's recommendation, that a loader with only 1300lbs lift capacity such as on a 35hp tractor should be fitted with a RGB60 grapple weighing 567lbs is nuts. That would leave you will only 633lbs of lift capacity or about what a Kubota BX SCUT could lift. That is hopeless if you are moving logs or rocks. I have a 48" 280lb grapple on a loader rated to lift 2700lbs and it has worked just fine. I can still lift more than a ton with that set up. Costs about half or less than the WRLong RGB too. I love the WRLong design but putting the heavier RGB versions on CUTs just does not make sense. The 48" or 60" RGB2 at 325/365lbs or the Millonzi at 280lbs makes a whole lot more sense for the vast majority of CUT owners who have loaders that lift less than 2500lbs.