RSL Engineering 5 Tine grapple/ Digbits Grapple

[Dave177]

Just looking for some feedback from anyone that owns a 5 tine log grapple made by RSL or the Digbits solid tine grapple? Been looking at a few and I like the look of both of these but the RSL one is about £300 cheaper.

Cheers

[Breezeblock]

used them on demolition machines and they lasted not too bad fractures started appearing round the tubes and bosses the bushes are plain steel which isnt good they picked up and wore out in a very short time if you grease them and dont try to pull apart the planet they should be fine demolition is probably the worst application you could get

[Le Sanglier]

I bought a hydraulic thumb of him and its great. Seems good quality.

[doobin]

What size machine?

[Dave177]

It will be on a 2.2 ton machine, It wont have a particularly hard life, but at the same time I dont want things breaking every other week!

[doobin]

Vemac. Much cheaper, mine on 2t has a hard life and still going strong three years later.

[pro bros]

we have a digbits one fitted to our 8060 jcb and 2.5 Kubota they are great and used for 5years a little wear on 2.5 one but it is probably getting used to extreme ,we would not be without them for moving brash /heads etc last week it stacked 160t larch and shifted all the brash to piles for transport to fire

[J The Tree]

Vemac. Much cheaper, mine on 2t has a hard life and still going strong three years later.

 

After reading this called Vemac- £415+ vat for a 7 tine on a Kubota KX61- ordered one today:biggrin:

Thank you

[Dave177]

Cheers for the replies. I like the Vemac one, however how does the single arm on the rear of the unit cope, it looks like it could be more prone to bending than the tude design of others?

[doobin]

Cheers for the replies. I like the Vemac one, however how does the single arm on the rear of the unit cope, it looks like it could be more prone to bending than the tude design of others?

 

That's the last bit of the machine that would bend- basic physics. It's pure compression, no bending force at all.