Grab Rake Attachment Branch Manager

[climbhightree]

weighs just more than I want to carry. I have a couple of snafus on my first run of Rake Racks - my pin in plan will not work with this first batch of 10. They will come with some nice ratchet straps.

Looks like you could just add a short pipe to the front of the rake (parallel to the rake right below grapple hole). Then add a pipe to the holder, either side of the one on the rake. Just use a slide through bar, or the pin (from connecting to the grapple) to lock it to the holder.

On my old truck we lifted the rake above the plywood box (same box and platform as in my member photo) then pinned it to the truck in the same matter as described above, but we used the normal pin side of the rake. Unfortunately, that setup wont work with the International...plus it sucked lifting it up there.

 

[tnttree]

thanks man, the city just welded about a 2X 4 X1/4 steel flat bar with a hole in it to the grapples and matched it to the ones on the rack. again you bugger the paint

 

[climbhightree]

Looks like you could just add a short pipe to the front of the rake (parallel to the rake right below grapple hole). Then add a pipe to the holder, either side of the one on the rake. Just use a slide through bar, or the pin (from connecting to the grapple) to lock it to the holder.

On my old truck we lifted the rake above the plywood box (same box and platform as in my member photo) then pinned it to the truck in the same matter as described above, but we used the normal pin side of the rake. Unfortunately, that setup wont work with the International...plus it sucked lifting it up there.

Not sure if this will help explain what I mean. Pictures of how I pinned the rake to my old truck. Other then lifting it up there, it made it easy to secure...and used the same pin that held the rake to the grapple. I will probably do a similar setup on the international, once I figure out where I can put it. But I will put the secure pin connection on the front side of the grapple to allow for easy grabbing.