WHICH ROOT RAKE/GRAPPLE ?

[Notforhire]

"Interesting use of a rake, but that would surely take my holly branches out as well as the daxx bittersweet.
I still think it's gotta be a long/wide open tooth grapple of some sort for me."


It sounds like you've nixed the landscape rake idea, so I'm going to skip assembly of mine for a photo op.
My seldom used attachments are stacked in my barn for the winter. If you change your mind I can still pull the rake out, just let me know.

Bill

 

[fried1765]

"Interesting use of a rake, but that would surely take my holly branches out as well as the daxx bittersweet.
I still think it's gotta be a long/wide open tooth grapple of some sort for me."


It sounds like you've nixed the landscape rake idea, so I'm going to skip assembly of mine for a photo op.
My seldom used attachments are stacked in my barn for the winter. If you change your mind I can still pull the rake out, just let me know.

Bill

After thinking about it some more I do believe that the landscape rake idea would not work for me.
I could access the nasty bittersweet with the landscape rake from the top, but would not have any way to lift/pull vines up.
I think a grapple it must be!
Now,...... to decide which is the right grapple for my use.

 

[old and tired]

It sounds like you are going to try and grab some of the tangled vines up high... is that the case?

Why don't you try and use your backhoe bucket teeth to grab some of these vines and see if you can pull them down. My guess, it ain't going to work but I've been wrong before.

If you don't have a thumb on your backhoe, that should be your first purchase.

 

[fried1765]

It sounds like you are going to try and grab some of the tangled vines up high... is that the case?

Why don't you try and use your backhoe bucket teeth to grab some of these vines and see if you can pull them down. My guess, it ain't going to work but I've been wrong before.

If you don't have a thumb on your backhoe, that should be your first purchase.

I DO have a backhoe with 11' dig depth, and 24" bucket.
It has a wonderful hydraulic thumb also.

A wide grapple (if it works) should do the work in 1/3 the time.
The backhoe bucket is just too big/wide to drop down from the top, onto/into the holly branches, without breaking them.
I think I can ease widely spaced long thin grapple teeth down through the holly, a foot or maybe more, through the top most bittersweet vines, then gently curl under and pull.