Mini Loader Attachments

evo said:
I think the answer is:
Yes its available
AND
No it's not a BMG but we took their design and we feel that we improved upon it.. Or at least that's the non slimy used car salesman approach. Instead of saying that the add on components of the design we copied work or might work with out copied design that is NOT a BMG.
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The reason they may or may not work has nothing to do with our new designed product. If the scoops are the current generation they will fit. If they are older scoops they will not fit ours or a new BMG.
And Top Notch Equipment was the company originally building the BMG until 2017. We improved on original design with feedback from customers.
Dave split Branch Manager off from Top Notch in 2017 and we have decided to build our own products again for reasons that will not be made public.
We did take anyone’s design as it was our design and you can’t copy yourself only improve on previous product.
 
TopNotchEquipment said:
The reason they may or may not work has nothing to do with our new designed product. If the scoops are the current generation they will fit. If they are older scoops they will not fit ours or a new BMG.
And Top Notch Equipment was the company originally building the BMG until 2017. We improved on original design with feedback from customers.
Dave split Branch Manager off from Top Notch in 2017 and we have decided to build our own products again for reasons that will not be made public.
We did take anyone’s design as it was our design and you can’t copy yourself only improve on previous product.
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Speaking of grapples. Have you or BMG ever though of selling a kit that a guy can weld together them selves? I can weld reasonably well. Just asking. I would think there would be a market as most tree guys know a thing or two about metal work. Or possibly take custom orders like if a guy wanted thicker material or a higher grade of steel?
Here are some improvements I have done to my BMG Image.jpgImage.jpgThe first one is boxing the smaller tine of the BMG and the second is adding some black pipe with a slit cut in it to lessen hose wear and tear from the sharp edge. Both of these mods were done a 1000 + machine hours ago and still functioning.
 
flushcut said:
Speaking of grapples. Have you or BMG ever though of selling a kit that a guy can weld together them selves? I can weld reasonably well. Just asking. I would think there would be a market as most tree guys know a thing or two about metal work. Or possibly take custom orders like if a guy wanted thicker material or a higher grade of steel?
Here are some improvements I have done to my BMG View attachment 72544View attachment 72545The first one is boxing the smaller tine of the BMG and the second is adding some black pipe with a slit cut in it to lessen hose wear and tear from the sharp edge. Both of these mods were done a 1000 + machine hours ago and still functioning.
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Nice mods!
 
flushcut said:
Speaking of grapples. Have you or BMG ever though of selling a kit that a guy can weld together them selves? I can weld reasonably well. Just asking. I would think there would be a market as most tree guys know a thing or two about metal work. Or possibly take custom orders like if a guy wanted thicker material or a higher grade of steel?
Here are some improvements I have done to my BMG View attachment 72544View attachment 72545The first one is boxing the smaller tine of the BMG and the second is adding some black pipe with a slit cut in it to lessen hose wear and tear from the sharp edge. Both of these mods were done a 1000 + machine hours ago and still functioning.
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Considering doing that second mod myself. My original hoses got cut right there by that edge. I got about 1.5 years out of the hose before it happened, so it wasn't terrible, but still considered trying to prevent that from happening.
 
flushcut said:
Speaking of grapples. Have you or BMG ever though of selling a kit that a guy can weld together them selves? I can weld reasonably well. Just asking. I would think there would be a market as most tree guys know a thing or two about metal work. Or possibly take custom orders like if a guy wanted thicker material or a higher grade of steel?
Here are some improvements I have done to my BMG View attachment 72544View attachment 72545The first one is boxing the smaller tine of the BMG and the second is adding some black pipe with a slit cut in it to lessen hose wear and tear from the sharp edge. Both of these mods were done a 1000 + machine hours ago and still functioning.
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I was actually talking to our engineer a few weeks back about putting rounded edge on inside of body plates to reduce hose wear from rubbing. With the TNA grapple hoses running thru hanger the angle s are not as big of deal because hoses stay in place better than BMG but do to free spinning they will still make plenty of contact and could rub. We have thought of a few other solutions for hoses and are aware that the body is a rub point when grapple goes more than 180 degrees around.

As far as upgraded steel we did upgrade the steel on the arms to ar400 and will be upgrading body and transfer arms to Grade 50 on the next production run (we do not think body and transfer arms are necessary but it was requested and cost is minimal), We also have an HD model in engineering now and that's all I am going to say but it will be even stronger yet.

As for a kit: it may be possible to send out a unassembled product but unwelded / unpainted kit would be difficult as we get everything manufactured, painted and assembled for us. not sure the small amount of assembly labor savings would really be worthh it... at Best maybe $250 to get it pieces instead of complete.
 
TopNotchEquipment said:
I was actually talking to our engineer a few weeks back about putting rounded edge on inside of body plates to reduce hose wear from rubbing. With the TNA grapple hoses running thru hanger the angle s are not as big of deal because hoses stay in place better than BMG but do to free spinning they will still make plenty of contact and could rub. We have thought of a few other solutions for hoses and are aware that the body is a rub point when grapple goes more than 180 degrees around.

As far as upgraded steel we did upgrade the steel on the arms to ar400 and will be upgrading body and transfer arms to Grade 50 on the next production run (we do not think body and transfer arms are necessary but it was requested and cost is minimal), We also have an HD model in engineering now and that's all I am going to say but it will be even stronger yet.

As for a kit: it may be possible to send out a unassembled product but unwelded / unpainted kit would be difficult as we get everything manufactured, painted and assembled for us. not sure the small amount of assembly labor savings would really be worthh it... at Best maybe $250 to get it pieces instead of complete.
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Any idea on the time frame on the hd model?
As this grapple will be for a sk1550
 
TopNotchEquipment said:
The reason they may or may not work has nothing to do with our new designed product. If the scoops are the current generation they will fit. If they are older scoops they will not fit ours or a new BMG.
And Top Notch Equipment was the company originally building the BMG until 2017. We improved on original design with feedback from customers.
Dave split Branch Manager off from Top Notch in 2017 and we have decided to build our own products again for reasons that will not be made public.
We did take anyone’s design as it was our design and you can’t copy yourself only improve on previous product.
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Thanks for clearing it up. My bad as when there wasn’t a straight answer if it was a BMG or not left me to assume it was simply being implied that it was.
 
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