Modifying and Reinforcing a Land Pride Grapple

[@billwhite2398]

Hi, Great job, any chance you will be selling these gussets?

[@PalsProjects]

Bill White thanks! We definitely can make them and send them to you. If you’re interested you can email us here: [e-mail]

[@Skyhawk945]

Yes, please sell us the gussets!

[@davidblood9882]

Excellent craftsmanship!! Great job. Thank you for posting.

[@markcole6475]

I just got the same grapple….I’ll probably do that to mine before I start working with it ! Nice vid!

[@Skyhawk945]

Me too, now I wish I'd purchased something heavier duty.

[@Skyhawk945]

I just purchased the same Grapple as well. I can see they're not built very robust. Nervous about my poor judgement wish I'd seen this before purchasing. Gotta be better choices out there somewhere. Wish EA hadn't gone out of business. Thanks for showing us what we'll need to do in the future! 👏👍

[@bobbyferdaszewski3029]

Hot Dog!!!! Good job and skill with the repair, reinforcement and mod! I can only dream of having and using the equipment that you guys used! You guys have be as a subscriber for life!!!!

[@PalsProjects]

Bobby Ferdaszewski right on! We’ve got a lot more content coming your way!

[@hphillips7425]

Good job and nice working partner 👍🏻

[@PalsProjects]

Thank you!

[@danverwoert1176]

I had to do the same thing to mine I put triangle gussets on all the top tines and on the bottom I drilled a hole through each tine and half inch re-rod through the whole thing

[@Joeman57]

Very cool. I just got a Kioti 60” ar400 and I need to do something similar.

[@OrangeismyNewGreen]

That’s a great mod, good job 👍🏻

[@PalsProjects]

Topaze 2000 thanks!

[@davidp8791]

Love it - Maple is a cutie!!!

[@PalsProjects]

Thanks! Maple's the real star :)

[@jake22-1]

Nice work

[@Dirtyd-dd7xy]

Looking to get the 72 at a discount of 2600 new. Should I Weld reinforcements to it before I begin to use it? I don’t want to tear it up right off the bat, but I’m buying it as a package deal rather than coming up with the extra cash to buy a different grapple.

[@bertram_oredrock]

Great how to video. I need to learn how to weld.

[@PalsProjects]

Thanks!

[@tangoseal1]

What would possess a person to think they could pull a full sized tree trunk out of the ground with nothing but a small tiny sub compact tractor using a grapple that is made to pick up things that are not attached to 100 foot deep tap roots 2 foot wide?

[@woodworkingwithdjleblanc6380]

looked at land pride , looked to be built cheap so I bought an everything attachments wicked grapple , built like a tank

[@michaelvoorhees5978]

Weight comparison?

[@woodworkingwithdjleblanc6380]

@@michaelvoorhees5978 not sure what the land pride weighed , but the EA 55" Wicked Root Rake Grapple Ultra Light 239 pound weight. Upper and lower Wicked Tines are laser cut for precision. Strong 1/4" AR450 steel tines are serrated for gripping and ripping. AR450 Steel and DOM tubing is incredibly strong, rigid and durable. 9" tine spacing. 51” wide lid opens up to a full 36”. 2” bore x 5” stroke cylinders for extreme gripping power! Greasable lid hinges and cylinder pins for longevity. , there is a few videos where he looks to be trying to break it , I know a few people with land prides and they all bent something in the first couple of weeks of use , Ive torturered mine and it has held up very well. I feel I made the right decision

[@michaelvoorhees5978]

@@woodworkingwithdjleblanc6380 yeah I have to have one now so I'm gonna have to get the land pride. My cousin has one and it's tough he said.

[@skeets6060]

I used a little come along and hooded to the end of the grapple and pulled them in place

[@KKastro_]

Very cool, very swag. I liike it. Do you make pull bars? asking for frieend.

[@PalsProjects]

We can make anything you or "your friend" want! ;)

[@jwright650]

Funny that this came up in my feed, I just came inside to eat a bite and go back out and finish welding on my grapple. Landpride only welds one side of those teeth and the welds break and the teeth fold over...and the factory welds are not that great in terms of quality.

[@yellowmetaldriver1460]

glad i saw this looking at grapples. that is some weak non annealed steel used

[@Austin1994Suloff]

Guess you don’t have a torch

[@benanibal8064]

Can you make some parts I can purchase from you for this mod?

[@PalsProjects]

Send us an email with what you’re looking for! [e-mail]

[@benjybaldwin773]

To bend it like that obviously is not being used properly I love the videos where guys are trying to push big stumps out of the ground.. that's what they make backhoe attachment for

[@Mark-Marine]

Is that a Landpride 1060?

[@PalsProjects]

It's the SGC0554 model

[@jmurnahan2616]

@@PalsProjects That grapple should just be used on a BX tractor. It was designed just for a BX. Its no wonder that it got bent. Might consider buying the right size grapple for your tractor.

[@sethdunn4412]

Really glad to see that I'm not the only one bending the lower tines on this grapple. Mine is a land pride SCG0548 and managed to put a bend in the two middle tines yesterday - thinking that reinforcement is probably the way to go on these. In the "bend it back" department, could you use a ratchet strap as you did towards the end of the video?

[@PalsProjects]

Nothing would move the tines. They are made drone AR500 which is very hard to bend back. Maybe some heat with oxy/acetylene would work.

[@miken8336]

Funny, but true. Check out Everything Attachments wicked grapple, mine is a beast. I haven't wrecked it yet. You have access to some badass equipment and could build way better than land pride. Keep up the great work.

[@PalsProjects]

I’ll check it out, thanks for the feedback!

[@jmurnahan2616]

If you look up the grapple you will see it is a light duty for a BX tractor. Always buy the right size grapple for your tractor size.

[@justadbeer]

Yes, I was not impressed with LP's grapple, even though I own other LP equipment. The Wicked Grapple by EA is definitely the way to go IMO. But what a great job on the fix and reinforcement of this LP unit! My hats off to them -

[@michaelvoorhees5978]

@@justadbeer but how are they compared in weight? Seems a heavier duty is gonna weigh alot more and lose alot of capacity on my 25hp kubota

[@justadbeer]

@@michaelvoorhees5978 Hey Michael, so here's what I finally ended up doing. As I mentioned, I kinda fell in love with Everything Attachments grapple. I called EA and tried to order one for my Kubota 2650. They were very nice and knowledgeable, and answered all questions. But the bottom line, we were looking at something like 12 week's before I could have it, and he honestly told me it would probably be longer. So I called my guy at my Kubota dealership. I told him I thought EA made a better product at a lower price and that I thought that LP was way over priced. He told me that the prices were comparable or even less and said to stop by when I get a chance. So I went and looked. I wanted to buy a 54" unit and told them as much. Well, It seems the big problem is guys buying a lesser version of the LP grapple, which is made more for a BX, (the 54" model) and putting it on their larger B models. He told me he will sell it, but Kubota/LP will void the warranty if put on a bigger tractor and that he actually tried to push a warranty through for another customer and got shot down. When making a side by side comparison, there are pretty obvious differences. The larger 660 (60") models were quite a bit beefier. They also had a heavy piece of round stock welded in between the teeth about 4-5" up from the bottom (just as EA does) this prevents the teeth from bending, as well as acts like a stop when digging the teeth into the ground and allowing them to ride above ground like skids. Note how the video shows no reinforced tubing on his lower jaws. Either he has an older model that did not have that feature, or a lighter duty model. Also, LP uses AR400 steel just as EA does. Weight wise, they are very close at 250lb. I ended up buying the LP grapple and am very happy with it. I have my own videos about it on my channel. As another poster stated, I think people are using these grapples for way more than their intended purpose. My son used mine to clear a few acres of brush for a garden and was amazed at how well it uprooted small shrubs and trees, rocks, debris, etc. I'm not a tractor expert by any means, but I do know the difference between a grapple and a root rake (my LP is built more like a root rake) Not sure what this gent did to bend his teeth like that, but you can be sure it was doing something it wasn't made for.

[@garymeyer3294]

WOW! What a piece of junk made by Land Pride. I'm glad I bought a Titan brand when I bought my 40 hp compact tractor. I've pushed it beyond its limits many times and never came close to bending anything.

[@chrispestana8991]

I wish I saw this before I bought mine. I suck at welding and I could have bought a better one with better steel in the first place.

[@PalsProjects]

We definitely pushed ours past it’s intended limits so if you do more light duty work with it, it’s really a great attachment👍🏼

[@tsfranks6555]

Guess I won't be buying a land pride grapple

[@ericcranston8158]

Never buy junk....

[@itsruf1]

observation: Why is it there are countless videos for a grapple hook for tiny Kubotas? Hell, just pick up the twigs by hand and stick the twigs in a garbage can.

[@PalsProjects]

When clearing 3 acres with this tiny Kubota, I ran out of garbage cans ;).