Tuesday, November 5, 2013

The True Value Of A Skid Steer Grapple Attachment

By Katrina Wheeler


Maximize your loaders potential with a skid steer grapple attachment and see the difference it makes. These attachments will save you so much time and can be easily acquired from local dealers or over the internet. Whether you buy a used or new model there are plenty to choose from so go and see for yourself how much variety there is.

The people and businesses who use a bucket loader usually need to do more than move dirt. Clearing ground and removing obstacles like boulders, trees and brush means that the extra adaptability of these attachments is a necessity. There is a wide and varied market in both new and used so finding and buying what you need is easy.

When dealing with material that does not fit in the normal bucket like roots, tree trunks, or rocks moving them with can cause many problems. Balancing the items is very difficult and leads to the material slipping, sliding and falling during transport. Having to stop and reload, or moving so slowly to avoid the slippage can wastes so many man hours.

A simple flexible attachment could stop all this, it is designed to hold the material in place allowing safe and fast progress in the transport of difficult materials. The choices available are very varied and some even have fingers which work individually to really allow for flexibility, gripping all shapes and kinds of load. The variation in size, jaw and finger design is large so there is something to suit most needs and you may find more than one type would suit your requirements.

Some grapples are more basic with either a fork like bottom jaw or a rake like one. Then having top claws that can be single or multiple in number. Two or three large claws on the top enable you to grip off set loads of varying width along the length with ease and accuracy.

Good quality steel and tough hydraulic workings are pretty standard so these attachments should last many years and really earn their keep. They are varied in design and some are more specific for jobs like carrying trees and logs which may require less flexibility of movement. Others have much more adjustable fingers to carry varied and mixed materials which may be much more random in the shape of load adding more contact at different places to ensure the load stays still.

What ever sort of loader you already have, there are various sizes of attachments so you are sure to get one that fits. Deciding on how many claws or fingers and the shape of the bottom rake or claw you need is probably harder than actually locating one. Prices seem to have little variation so that should not be an issue.

So whether you are a builder that needs to clear brush and rubble or in forest management removing trees and roots these skid steer grapple attachments will make the job so much less labour intensive. Safety and speed are other benefits over using a bucket alone and even for the land owner working around the farm these can be just as valuable. As they make your bucket loader a whole lot more versatile




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