Monday, November 11, 2013

Grapple Bucket Makes Your Life Easier

By Katrina Wheeler


The grapple bucket can be mounted on wheel and truck loaders, tractors and other heavy duty equipment. It is suitable for metal scrap removal and cleaning refuse and all other materials. Available in variety of standard sizes, it is usually made of abrasion resistant steel with high tensile strength, with front coupler or pin-up connection.

Grapple buckets with hardened pins and optional cylinder guards are designed for demanding works such as scrap handling, recycling material handling and other tough applications. The design have to suit the purpose. For example, forked scrap grapples are designed for refuse and brush removal, and they allow all dirt to fall down while you load loose material.

Tractor grapple buckets can come very handy when it comes to cleaning debris after storm or after cutting the trees and large branches. These buckets have one or two steel lids, controlled by two independent hydraulic cylinders. Most of them have bottom spacing. This allows dirt and smaller rocks to fall out while cleaning debris.

Low sides solid bottom scrap grapples are designed for picking and removing trash and similar debris. They are often used for debris cleaning and junk handling on junk yards. Low cut sides allow picking and loading wider loads, and secure safer operation and better stability.

Root grapples are intended for picking and loading larger trees, branches and other long, hard to handle things. The model equipped with two long grapples, individually controlled by hydraulic cylinders, is very useful when it comes to long, hard to handle trees. Each side will safely clap over load, allowing stability and safety in all conditions.

Different purposes require different designs. Several attachments are designed to provide larger capacity, for example, extended lip grapples. If you know what type of work you will usually do with your equipment, you should choose the attachments accordingly. Low sides allow loading longer pieces, spacing allow dirt to fall down, and so on. The important thing is to choose the right type of equipment, sized for your machine.

Some types are designed for harsh environments. Their construction ensures long life and durability in tough conditions. They have to be designed to clamp evenly around any load being carried, to provide stability and safe operation. Durable high carbon steel and heat treated bushings ensure great resistance and longevity.

Compact tractors loaders and smaller skid steers can use long open bottom grapples, very handy when it comes to tree service, trash managing and similar works. They are quite light, but still very strong and durable. Different attachments are sold separately, for example additional rails on the bottom, very useful if you have to handle smaller pieces.

Grapples can be added to existing standard buckets, but in this case you will also have to add the hydraulic controls. They allow safer loading and transferring loose brush and similar loads, and small modifications are sometimes needed to be done. All in all, good grapple bucket can make your life much easier, especially if you use this type of equipment daily.




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