Telehandler grab

[Swizzle]

We are looking to buy a grab to go on our telehandler. We have a a shear grab which takes the tops off hedges and have a lot of brush left which we usually try and collect with the bucket but now considering a grab to be more effective. Would a muck grab be heavy duty enough for collecting wood and larger hedge/tree plants?

If so can anyone recommend a decent grab for a telehandler?

 

[vantage]

Cherry Xform. Haven’t got one but any thread on here they are always highly regarded.

 

[milkloss]

Cherry xform multibucket or an albutt site-pro grapple ......... if you're feeling flush!

If not it'll be any old dung grab you're prepared to destroy because it's a job that's very hard on them.

 

[Galcam]

Swizzle can u enlighten me as to what a sheargrab is doing anywhere near the tops of hedges? Please tell me I’ve got it assways!

 

[Swizzle]

Swizzle can u enlighten me as to what a sheargrab is doing anywhere near the tops of hedges? Please tell me I’ve got it assways!

Yes sorry wrong use of words by me! I mean a tree shear on the 360 digger. Like this one https://www.daviesimplementsltd.co.uk/product/forestry/tree-shears/tigercut-200e250e/

 

[mayos]

The Quicke XL attachments are good. The multibene might suit what you're after.

 

[rusty]

We have an Albutt muck fork with top grab for the telehandler. Hardox tines top and bottom are unbendable and ideal for clearing up branches .

 

[Galcam]

Thank u swizzle, you have restored my faith in British Farmers! It’s been very emotional this last 24 hours what with Gerberts admission to not having or ever seeing the need for a Hydraulic Too Link. Oh the shame?

 

[clbarclay]

I bought a second hand cherry for that job and it has on the whole worked pretty well. However one issue has been the odd branch poking through the bars and knocking hoses on the headstock. A grab with a back made from sheet with no holes in it instead of bars would probably be better.

 

[nick...]

I got an eastern Attachment’s fork and grapple made in hardox,or the tines anyway.bought it specifically to grab hold of trees and bushes I cut down on our meadows behind the barb wire fences.may sound extravagant but only me and I ain’t the spring chicken I was and makes life a lot easier for me
Nick...

 

[ACEngineering]

Swizzle can u enlighten me as to what a sheargrab is doing anywhere near the tops of hedges? Please tell me I’ve got it assways!

yeah i was like "what the ...." have we all been missing a trick here

 

[ACEngineering]

I bought a second hand cherry for that job and it has on the whole worked pretty well. However one issue has been the odd branch poking through the bars and knocking hoses on the headstock. A grab with a back made from sheet with no holes in it instead of bars would probably be better.

the xforms have always had a solid back, except for a couple of cut outs on each side. you must have a cherry built grab which is nothing like a cherry xform.

 

[ACEngineering]

We are looking to buy a grab to go on our telehandler. We have a a shear grab which takes the tops off hedges and have a lot of brush left which we usually try and collect with the bucket but now considering a grab to be more effective. Would a muck grab be heavy duty enough for collecting wood and larger hedge/tree plants?

If so can anyone recommend a decent grab for a telehandler?

Albutt do a grab specifically for timber brash and waste. much more suited to the job but as a universal grab the xform with hardox tines will be a good all rounder.

 

[Grassman]

@Dave W has a bucket grab thingy for sale

 

[Dave W]

@Dave W has a bucket grab thingy for sale

I do. Designed for a forklift. Comes with tipping backplate. Practically as new.

 

[Galcam]

Swizzle, I am impressed with those tree shears, had a contractor in last week with one to take down ash and pine trees around my home and it’s amazing how well they work. No sawdust all over the place, a dream.

 

[NHMatt]

I wonder if something like this would suit? They are made bespoke, and very heavy-duty.

 

[Goweresque]

We have an Albutt muck fork with top grab for the telehandler. Hardox tines top and bottom are unbendable and ideal for clearing up branches .

I have exactly the same, pretty much all its ever done is clear brushwood. Brilliant tool for the job. The top grab is essential, it allows you to carry probably twice or three times as much as just a fork alone, and far neater, you don't drop bits everywhere!

 

[Agrispeed]

I have several Albutt attachments. They are excellent quality and very heavily built. We have a tractor muck grab with Kv tines, and we've bent a few tines, but the grab itself is very well built, the paint is quite good and we've given it some serious stick, moving tree stumps, broken concrete slabs etc with no damage to the body of the grab.

 

[Jamer]

Got an Albutt HXG Hardox heavy duty grab, now on it's 3rd JCB since 2008. Would buy the same again.