Branch Manager Grapple!!! Real Cheap!!

[treevet]

ps..."one toro for every FFSBMG...reason is they are cheap. Dingo grapple is over 3x more expensive but worth it. Sometimes they can be found used tho.

As for the brush dragging advantage...yes if a couple of big branches, but most often it is a lot of smaller branches maybe 15' long. If you stack a huge pile or try to grab them, the bmg just opens about 36" wide allowing you to just get a couple of them. Say the pile is 10' wide at the stem side with 20 branches on it...best way is to choke the pile, attach it to the grapple and then drag.

Here is what WE use our forks for, what they are meant for

 

[climbhightree]

Trevet and I went over and over this before in another thread. Some people have different ways of doing things, just find what suits you best.

I prefer the bmg. The pile below was stacked, and unstacked, with a bmg.

 

[treevet]

why on earth would you not just have loaded them in a dump trailer and not move them twice climbhightree?

 

[climbhightree]

That is taken at my house, after unloaded from the trailer...waiting to be cut/split for the outdoor burner

 

[brendonv]

You cannot be serious. I can pick up a log as wide as this continent...if it wasn't too heavy for the machine. Yesterday I loaded my 23' flatdump in about 10 minutes with some pieces 14' long. No groundy ever helped loading ever.

You must work in parking lots. Can't move a 20' log perpendicular to the machine in my customers properties.

 

[Treetopflyer]

You must work in parking lots. Can't move a 20' log perpendicular to the machine in my customers properties.

Can you not pinch them parallel with dingo grapple as well ?

 

[treevet]

You must work in parking lots. Can't move a 20' log perpendicular to the machine in my customers properties.

lol...we work in lots of places. Just removed 12 Aust. pines (Diplodia) last 2 days and ground out, just like the one remaining in pict, yesterday. Today it is the Sweet gum up against the building. Prob. pick stem out with the crane.

This probably seems like a battle of personalities but at the heart of it all...there is the TRUTH out there. I have used both...other guy/s only going on conjecture. To me and most on here, cost is NOT the over riding factor. One wants to not regret what he/she bought and mourn the fact they did not buy the best.

I admit to being wrong at times as I just gave up on my 201 (even modded) which I advocated but today gave to my gm and took his 200 I just had a carb put on. I give up and Stihl should refund everyone's money for that hoax

 

[brendonv]

Can you not pinch them parallel with dingo grapple as well ?

I'm thinking your not pinching a sizable log with that grapple and taking it for a ride parrellel with the machine. A bmg allows you to heel the load under the plate, bringing it closer to center, hauling a larger log.

I dont own stock in bmg. I did however own three different machines the past 9 years and wouldn't hitch any other grapple to the front.

Good luck with the purchase. The proof is right under your nose!

 

[jim454]

way better than the floppy bmg Royce, I had both at one time.

I like that grapple, Dave. But there's no chance on God's green earth that I'd ever trade it for my BMG.

 

[jim454]

Jack is a big fan of the BMG.

 

[Treetopflyer]

I really like that gehl as well. That thing looks awesome does it fit through 36 in gate?

 

[Lumberjack]

ps..."one toro for every FFSBMG...reason is they are cheap. Dingo grapple is over 3x more expensive...

You paid over $7k for your Toro grapple?

 

[treevet]

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Jack is a big fan of the BMG.

You too Buster? Couldn't play today, had a late day. The OP is running a Dingo. You guys are running...not a Dingo...and I think (not sure) you have the BMG with twist and stop control, which is (if it is like one I had) not what Royce would get with his Dingo. #1. He cannot stop it from spinning and #2. he cannot make it spin when he wants it to. POS imo.

In this discussion, you got one guy that never gets logs in a pile with a takedown . Another guy who shows a vid of different bmg (?) moving CONCRETE (?!) Two guys running completely different machines than the thread subject.

Gimme a vid of a mini moving a pile of logs with the mini bmg! You guys are as good as the Obama regime in misdirection after Benghazi. Being familiar with the OP's mini I know that although imo it is the best of the mini s...it is vertically challenged. The BMG hangs lower than my superior $3400. machine (thought the BMG was $1100, but may be what I sold it for half price) so you get the lift you need unlike the ball sack dragging bmg.

Here's a short vid today. Didn't have a cam when I took 10 mins to load the Gum by the building which was heavier but the one log is 12' long and could easily have been a log that length and twice the weight.

gum logs

 

[climbhightree]

Sigh, I guess when I get home from the TCIA Expo, I will have to make a video showing the bmg dismantling the pile of logs at my place. I'll even throw a couple on the trailer.

 

[Lumberjack]

Here's a 7.5 year old video from shortly after I got my first mini.

Here is another from ~ 3 years later.

Same grapple on a 140

If anyone sees this thread and is on the fence for a BMG vs whatever, let me know and I will give you a 30 day trial of the grapple, your only liability would be the return shipping... Never had to give anyone's money back.

 

[treevet]

Sigh, I guess when I get home from the TCIA Expo, I will have to make a video showing the bmg dismantling the pile of logs at my place. I'll even throw a couple on the trailer.

"Don't tell me what you are going to do...tell me what you have done!" Alex Shigo...more times than I can remember.

 

[treevet]

Here's a 7.5 year old video from shortly after I got my first mini.

Here is another from ~ 3 years later.

Same grapple on a 140

If anyone sees this thread and is on the fence for a BMG vs whatever, let me know and I will give you a 30 day trial of the grapple, your only liability would be the return shipping... Never had to give anyone's money back.

Sad...very sad...end of the first vid I was laughing so much I couldn't watch anymore. I would have hid that vid where Jimmy Hoffa was buried. Didn't that mini tip over and one of the two small logs fell out at 1 28?

Anybody knows you have to load into a dump trailer to make a mini functional. But now I have a 23' "Low Boy" F800 that works too.

 

[climbhightree]

"Don't tell me what you are going to do...tell me what you have done!" Alex Shigo...more times than I can remember.

Ok if you want to see what I already have showing the bmg, go here:

http://m.youtube.com/channel/UCiMr2zZ2D863U-DGYGYh7tA

I'll post a new video, when I get home, showing stacking, unstacked, moving, and loading logs.

 

[treevet]

I'm thinking your not pinching a sizable log with that grapple and taking it for a ride parrellel with the machine. A bmg allows you to heel the load under the plate, bringing it closer to center, hauling a larger log.
!

Really Brendon...really...sticking a large log out the front makes you more capable in moving a big one than not having all the weight pronged way out in front? Don't forget...I owned one. You have to keep a chubby groundy around to stand on the back of your mini all day to keep from tipping I bet.

Also you got to load from the back of your dump trailer on every piece??

 

[Treetopflyer]

Treevet you crack me up man ,chubby groundies usually suck ,but you give them a new feeling of accomplishment in that last post ..lmao