Is a 900# grapple too much for a M7060 & LA1154

[Merlota]

I would strongly suggest get the 72in...... get something that is wide enough where you can see the outer edge grapple sir, you have a big tractor.

I know what you mean with it being hard to see. I have enough trouble with the bucket. The extra 6" on each side makes that much difference?

 

[Siesta Sundance]

I know what you mean with it being hard to see. I have enough trouble with the bucket. The extra 6" on each side makes that much difference?

Yes sir, especially when it comes to grapple work. Knowing how deep those teeth are in the ground and/or just picking debris or material in general.

With a smaller grapple it has less protection on the tractor as well.
Trust me on this, I have 400 to 500+ hours of grapple work just on that MX.

 

[Moose7060]

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Wow are you ever fast on that MX5200!

 

[rc51stierhoff]

Wow are you ever fast on that MX5200!
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I heard that…After watching that, I feel like my MX is detuned.

 

[mcmxi]

It really depends on how the OP is going to use the grapple and what type of grapple. If your grubbing brush, ripping up small stumps and small trees out, a lighter weight grapple will bend and not hold up.

If I had used a lighter, less quality made grapple, it probably would be scrap metal.

How do you equate lighter to lower quality? That's simplistic to put it mildly. I don't pick up and move sticks with my grapple. I move 2,000 lb rocks around and dig those rocks out of the ground with my 400 lb grapple. I pick up a 2,500 lb disc harrow with my grapple and a 1,500 lb plow. Hardox 450 virtually throughout, strong where it needs to be, no wasted steel and no damage after many hours of hard use, not pushing twigs around that my dog could drag out.

It's the OPs money, but steel is bought and sold by weight, and paying for 900 lb of steel when 600 lb will do a better or equivalent job makes lot more sense, regardless of whether you have 500 hours of moving sticks around or not.

 

[Moose7060]

Maybe I am missing something here (being slow at the switch sometimes ), but after 25 posts talking about grapple weight nobody has brought up the fact that the weight of the bucket comes off first.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

How do you equate lighter to lower quality? That's simplistic to put it mildly. I don't pick up and move sticks with my grapple. I move 2,000 lb rocks around and dig those rocks out of the ground with my 400 lb grapple. I pick up a 2,500 lb disc harrow with my grapple and a 1,500 lb plow. Hardox 450 virtually throughout, strong where it needs to be, no wasted steel and no damage after many hours of hard use, not pushing twigs around that my dog could drag out.

It's the OPs money, but steel is bought and sold by weight, and paying for 900 lb of steel when 600 lb will do a better or equivalent job makes lot more sense, regardless of whether you have 500 hours of moving sticks around or not.

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Picking up items and using force to dig and remove are different variables.

Again, I said "If I had used a lighter, less quality made grapple, it probably would be scrap metal. I also previously mentioned AR400 steel in the teeth plate.

Let me borrow your 400lb grapple and I show what the difference in my use vs your use.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

In addition to the weight mentioned, I already knew the OP was considering the 72in grapple.