Recommend me a muck grab

[Andrew]

Recommendations please on a muck / rehandling grab for a 3.5t loader, Qfit brackets.

Requirements:

2.6 cubic metres.

Must be able to see tine tips from cab (current one has sheet steel backplate with a couple of slots cut in, visibility is awful)

Very heavy duty, with hardox tines all round

When closed the grab tines must nearly touch, most grabs seem to leave an 8inch gap.

No ‘side tines’.

 

[neilo]

If you ask Mocho Fabrications they will build one to your spec, and build it well:

Standard duty and hardox Muck grabs (mochofabrication.co.uk)

 

[collywol]

If you ask Mocho Fabrications they will build one to your spec, and build it well:

Standard duty and hardox Muck grabs (mochofabrication.co.uk)

Hawk fork.heavy and very strong. Our stockmen haven’t bent it yet . 5 or 6years old.

 

[milkloss]

Not strimech.

plate in the back of the grab prevents muck or whatever else building up around the headstock..... we've just welded one in our old grab.

 

[dave mountain]

i would think you will be looking at a custom order to get one without steel plate at the back. most if not all standard models will have plate at the back, but i would think a good bit more of the plate could be cut out before it starts to affect the strength.

 

[Goweresque]

I think an Albutt grab would fit your specs:

Fork and Grabs | Albutt Attachments

www.albutt.com

Very pleased with mine, though to be fair it doesn't really get used for muck so can't comment on its usefulness at that.

 

[An Gof]

I think an Albutt grab would fit your specs:

Fork and Grabs | Albutt Attachments

www.albutt.com

Very pleased with mine, though to be fair it doesn't really get used for muck so can't comment on its usefulness at that.

I have the same grab. It’s very well built my only complaint, which is very relevant to the OP’s requirements, is that it’s a real pain to see the fork tips through the small slots. I asked for mine to be amended at manufacture as a special order but visibility is still p poor. Apart from that it is excellent.

 

[ACEngineering]

Why does one need to see the fork tips anyway? you cant see the wear edge on bucket so what the difference???

 

[An Gof]

Why does one need to see the fork tips anyway? you cant see the wear edge on bucket so what the difference???

when you have Hardox tines and some areas of imperfect concrete believe me it’s a great help to see the tips

 

[neilo]

I have the same grab. It’s very well built my only complaint, which is very relevant to the OP’s requirements, is that it’s a real pain to see the fork tips through the small slots. I asked for mine to be amended at manufacture as a special order but visibility is still p poor. Apart from that it is excellent.

Mine is the same, which is why I didn’t recommend it for the OP’s requirements.

Very happy with it myself, but a couple of the top tines have ‘wiggled’ a bit through handling logs/trees.
Also relevant to the OP’s query, the gap between top and bottom tines isn’t particularly close when closed.

 

[Andrew]

Why does one need to see the fork tips anyway? you cant see the wear edge on bucket so what the difference???

A bucket is a continuous edge so it slides over edges relatively easily. Tines don't.
Also a bucket edge spreads the load, tines have much higher point loadings if you're on soil it's a lot easier to dig them in compared to an edge.

 

[nosmokenopoke]

Recommendations please on a muck / rehandling grab for a 3.5t loader, Qfit brackets.

Requirements:

2.6 cubic metres.

Must be able to see tine tips from cab (current one has sheet steel backplate with a couple of slots cut in, visibility is awful)

Very heavy duty, with hardox tines all round

When closed the grab tines must nearly touch, most grabs seem to leave an 8inch gap.

No ‘side tines’.

Albutt. Worth the most if you want to sell it on some day too

 

[Fendtbro]

Why does one need to see the fork tips anyway? you cant see the wear edge on bucket so what the difference???

Muck fork is essential here for digging out bigger stones in ploughed ground. The murray fork is excellent for this with the open back and I have a custom made top grab with loads of travel and fast action. The grab main beam actually comes within a few inches of the telescopic ram but the whole setup is engineered to fit like a glove on the fendtbro loader..

 

[David.]

Was using a neighbour's Eastern Attachments/Cherry Multi Bucket last week on a Manitou. Very impressed with the big chunks of muck we were ripping out, far better than my fork because it doesn't loosen the muck or roll it away as you dig in.

X-Form Multi Buckets | Cherry Products Ltd - Agricultural Attachments

www.cherryproducts.co.uk

 

[milkloss]

when you have Hardox tines and some areas of imperfect concrete believe me it’s a great help to see the tips

have you managed to bend one? We went with the old school two inch tines…… put them in the press and straight again!

 

[An Gof]

have you managed to bend one? We went with the old school two inch tines…… put them in the press and straight again!

No, but I have broken some concrete ……. But father never did lay it thick enough

 

[Jamer]

We have the older version of the heavy duty/Hardox Albutt without the daft backplate. It’s on its 3rd JCB and I think we will try and refurbish it when the time comes.

 

[Sid]

I think an Albutt grab would fit your specs:

Fork and Grabs | Albutt Attachments

www.albutt.com

Very pleased with mine, though to be fair it doesn't really get used for muck so can't comment on its usefulness at that.

Triggers broom.
2003 new tines this year and new tine holding beam last year.
Albutt.

 

[Andrew]

We have the older version of the heavy duty/Hardox Albutt without the daft backplate. It’s on its 3rd JCB and I think we will try and refurbish it when the time comes.

Yes we had one of those for 11 years. It was worn out so we changed it for a new one which has lasted 4. Not built like they used to be

 

[milkloss]

Yes we had one of those for 11 years. It was worn out so we changed it for a new one which has lasted 4. Not built like they used to be

Maybe..l wonder if the telewagglers are getting stronger though.