Watch this Before Buying a Grapple

How to buy a Grapple? This was a great interview with Bill from Precision Manufacturing. He did a great job explaining how a grapple is made and how important it is to properly size it for your tractor/equipment.

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[tommys_trucks_trains_tractors]

It was great meeting you today and Thank You for taking time to discuss TYM tractors with me. Very much appreciated and Thank You for your military service

[scotthurst]

I have had my add a grapple 4 years I absolutely love it. Precision makes great equipment!!!

[sockeyewillie]

Hey Tony, It was a pleasure spending a few minutes speaking with you at the TYM/Scott's tractor show in Augusta, Maine this past weekend. If you remember me, Brian, the Alaska fisherman, I really wanted to thank you for helping me decide to make the purchase of the T25. Maybe your encouragement to me to consider starting my own YT channel will come to fruition, my $5 dollar word. Thanks again Tony.

[ritterjon]

Cognizant, specifically, intuitive.. my goodness more than a $5 video here. Nice work. 👍
*Keep on tractoring!*

[inspectr]

Great timing as I'm about to take possession of a 2024 Kioti NS 6010 HST to manage my newly acquired 20 acres of overgrown towering trees, woods and brush. Chipping what I can with an 8" PTO chipper, saw milling the bigger stuff and burning the rest.

[rogerr]

I have the Standard Duty 333 with the double clamp (333D72 – 72″). I've had it for going on 2 years now and I absolutely love it and cannot tell you how much time and work it has saved me. But there are, as with any product, some things I think would really improve on it... one is the R shaped cotter pin that holds the pin that connects the cylinder to the clamp. It will get caught by brush, limbs or whatever you are grabbing and will pull out. I have lost several and finally ended up putting a standard cotter pin in where you bent the ends, and it has worked well so far. The other is I would recommend adding a reenforcing backing plate to the clamp tines just like they have on the rake tines. Just that little bit extra would help prevent them from bending as easily. Having said all that, I highly recommend them if you are looking for a good quality grapple. Like I said, I love mine and could not imagine doing without it at this point.

[RockhillfarmYT]

Nice job putting the video together.

I have three different attachments from Precision Manufacturing and it has all been great quality

[davida.p.]

Extremely informative! Thank you for sharing Tony! 👍

[Bodhranarama]

Some good options there Tony. Thanks for posting.

[hughhead]

Nice bit of work here y'all! The explanations really helped on each type of grapple and the weight vs. steel grade vs. strength trade offs helped as well. I stumbled into a nice lightly used 25hp 2025R tractor with a single cylinder "root grapple" with the full lower "jaw" parallel to the ground. Grapple is really too heavy for the loader, but it's cheap around 60% of the appropriately sized and lighter one that Precision makes that would bump up my loader capacity by 50%. Found this the hard way clearing big pine tree debris at a friend's place after a tornado. As usual, the folks who need the best tools have less than the best equipment. Oh well, I'm learning. Next time, twin cylinder, lighter Precision Grapple it is!

[ellobo]

I have two of their grapples.
Bigmouth 327 on my LS and small add a grapple on my Yanmar SA 325. Best money I’ve ever spent on a tractor accessory/implement.
And a piranha toothbar is a game changer also.

[kellykaleto]

How does the rake grapple do with picking up logs? I use mine primarily for moving logs around for me to mill, yes I will do some brush clearing etc but primarily moving logs. I’m concerned that it won’t pick up some of my larger logs. My tractor is a 78hp tractor and I have 36” round trees, will a rake grapple pick something up like that? Any thoughts/opinions. Thanks.

[subixbarbarasson]

The single klamp works well with rake grapples imo due to raking on the ground and bakk dragging.

[KoalityofLife]

It's to bad their website doesn't list prices for their implements. I'm in the market for a grapple but don't feel like giving all my contact information so someone can call me back at a later date and interrupt my day to give me a price. Seems like a good product too. Oh well, on to another brand that doesn't need me to fill out a form just to get a price.

[kdegraa]

Most smaller tractors sold with loaders in Australia come with a 4 in 1 bucket. So very few grapples are sold here. Operators get by with their 4 in 1 bucket. This is a bit of a pity as a grapple would be a better tool to pick up brush.

[jfarmandoutdoors]

Super video that helped me learn a great deal about grapplers. Are there any options if your tractor is not already set up with a 3rd function? Can you operate the grappler double clamp off of the loader on existing hydraulics that power the loader bucket? I think I already know the answer but wanted to confirm. If 3rd function is needed, what is your best reccommendation? Are there kits that can be retrofitted for a front function or just run hydraulic hoses to the rear remotes? Thank you!!

[markziegler]

I want to get the add-a-grapple to my bucket.

[charliesmith]

I just bought a 25 hp farmtrac 25hst, , is it strong enough to run a grapple..i have 2 acres of poision ivy vines etc i need gone to install a fence

[daddybob]

This is all too technical for a basic old Veteran such as me Tony. The camera operator is obviously very skilled. Bob.

[ourmainelife]

Hopefully you can help me pick out the best grapple at the Augusta Tractor show on Friday