Grapple trailer

brendonv said:
I built it. The boom came from Metavic. I sent my drawing to a company in Pennsylvania and had them put together the tongue and main frame with axles and title. I built the bunks, did electrical, built the power pack, design, assembly. blah blsh blah. Still need paint.
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The interest you've generated makes me wonder if you might have a viable second business on your hands, producing these things for the marketplace. Just sayin'. You might be able to employ a bunch of folks, if demand was high enough.

Tim
 
Brendon, Very interested in the ins and outs of fab'ing this. This is my next project sooner than later. The trailer I've got covered but wondering if you have some more info on how you sourced and decided on the particular loader. Did you buy the metavic new or used? You went rear mount instead of over the tongue, was that personal preference or necessity? Thanks in advance! Greta job on the trailer! Nice work!

Ben
 
I bought it new. My old trailer was front mount, and i realized the down falls of this doing resi work. The rear mount deal is non typical in this situation but for me it works great. So basically it was preference. Typical length of logs, work area, etc, would determine how it should be mounted.

It wasnt cheap, even building it myself. You can buy the trailer in treebay right now and be under what i have into mine.
 
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Hey, @Wouldeyed! Welcome to the TreeBuzz forum, and congratulations on making your first post!

This thread is a little old, and as such may escape the notice of the people who originally started the thread. By using the symbol "@" before the name of one of the forum members, with no spaces in between, it will generate a notification to that member that someone has mentioned them in a post. So in this example, if you want to try to get an answer from Brendon, you'd write @brendonv somewhere within your post, in hopes that he might respond.

That's all I've got for now, and again, welcome to the forum. I think you're going to like it here.

Tim
 
@merle_nelson; Thanks, Merle. I only know about this because someone used it on me once. I think it might have been @oceans.

I find it useful when you want to comment on someone's post directly after they've made it, but you don't want to copy their whole post a second time by hitting the "Reply" button. Using the "@" symbol ensures, hopefully, that they come back to the thread to view your comments.

I'm pretty sure I've posted stuff in threads and then forgotten about it. So if someone asks me a question about something I've written, but they never bothered to either hit the "Reply" button or use the "@" symbol, I receive no notification about it, and therefore might miss it. Also, I most often find it easier to "copy and paste" a members username, and add the "@" symbol in front of it. Some usernames are long, and pasting it ensures accuracy.

That's all for now.

Tim
 
@TimBr , I found it out as a happy accident while typing a reply to multiple people in a single shot and I didn't know how to include all their individual posts into one reply.

I started each response by typing "@" before their screen name, but without a space between the @ and the name. I only left out the space because I was trying to be all fast and junk. Low and behold, the names came out as links. Pretty cool!
 
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