Stump Bucket Grapple?

[dcruze]

Hey guys,
I have L3301 that I have had since 2016, with a FEL and a backhoe attached. Recently purchased a Lane Shark mower for the FEL. It is working great.

I am looking to purchase a Stump Bucket Grapple. Originally the thought was to use it to help hold logs for cutting into firewood. With the tapered front end at 12" you should be able to cut the whole log down to firewood size. But having the Stump Bucket with it might be a plus.

I have been looking at them on line and I ran across one from Titan Attachments. As I read the reviews, I found a couple people complaining about the quality from Titan, saying they were from China and were bending teeth.

Wanted to know other opinions of Titan and any other brand you guys would recommend.

Thanks.

 

[i7win7]

You can look up videos of a frostbite grapple or do things the redneck way

Processing Firewood the Professional Redneck Way

This will be a long assembly post with many photos, you may want to bookmark it and read on a rainy day. You will need a root grapple to lift logs, A miter saw to cut multiple 4x4's and 2x8's to size, plus other wood working tools most home owners all ready have. Let's start...

www.orangetractortalks.com

 

[mdhughes]

At 588 lb you are loosing a lot of your lift capacity.

 

[dcruze]

At 588 lb you are loosing a lot of your lift capacity.

My bucket is rated at 1000 lbs lift. Thats one thing I am considering, but if I cut logs in 6' lengths, I think I would be OK.

 

[JimmyJazz]

Not really answering your question but most of the time and effort and perhaps inefficiencies lay in the splitting. I recommend you consider a Super split log splitter. Thats where I "put the money" so to speak . By the time you have positioned lifted and cut your log I am already halfway thru the splitting. Look up Supersplitter on YouTube. Good luck.

 

[dcruze]

Not really answering your question but most of the time and effort and perhaps inefficiencies lay in the splitting. I recommend you consider a Super split log splitter. Thats where I "put the money" so to speak . By the time you have positioned lifted and cut your log I am already halfway thru the splitting. Look up Supersplitter on YouTube. Good luck.
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That is a pretty cool log splitter. Never seen that before, but we were thinking of the grapple to help hold the logs up off the ground to keep from being bent over with the saw all day.