FASTER Than Tractor Mulcher? Mini-Excavator GRAPPLE Bucket! 10 Minute Challenge!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ค. 2024
- New Werk Brau grapple bucket makes pulling trees out with the Kubota U48-5 mini-excavator easy! See what Tractor Time with Tim can remove in only 10 minutes. Trying out a grapple bucket back at the Tower property!
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00:00 Introduction
01:55 Mowing Brush Pile
15:00 10 Minute Challenge
25:27 Grapple Evaluation - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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Great video. Like Mike Morgan says. A rake on an excavator is as handy as a pocket on a shirt!
I thought the Bible verse might have been Psalm 57:10 "For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies" :-)
YOu get better each time you use it. Looking good
Hey Tim, I am sure you have been watching Outdoors with the Morgan’s. Mike really likes that bucket grapple on his excavator. You did great while learning. Keep videos coming.. Central Maine Dan…..
Tim I love seeing the plethora of compact equipment you showcase on your channel. I know for quite some time it’s been mainly tractors. Thing is, most compact tractor owners will never buy a skid steer because they already have a loader. An excavator however is an area of expertise that can’t be compared to a skid steer or tractor so thanks for moving into the excavator arena. I’d like to see some more attachments in future videos.
I am in awe of the working power of these wonderful machines
Good job, thank you for sharing
A handy attachment for a handy machine. Blessings.😊
Nice tool. Great for picking up logs for doing firewood.
Nice! You will be able to do many things with that.
Used/rented an excavator ( with thumb ) , for along the other side of the fence line. Seemed to work well, now I just use the bush hog to keep it down, but the woods is coming back at me again. Forestry mulcher on a skid steer was too expensive per hour and the cutting teeth wear out fast. Great demo Tim, thanks.
Great video!
As inefficient as others have pointed out, you still made quick progress through thick brush. Thanks for a very informative video.
Tim, consider pulling a sapling and put it down next to where you are working. Once you have several pilled up grab the pile and swing them to the main pile. That will save you some time on task. Also agree to leave the little sprouts and take down the stuff that is easier to deal with.
Keep on learning!
My thoughts exactly. A great amount of time could be saved by not swinging all the way around for one small sapling, when you could easily pick up 6 or 8 at a time.
It also appeared Tim was curling the bucket up all the way when grubbing roots, and they would get stuck in the rake. Seems to me, if you kept the rake more vertical, then grab with the thumb, the roots may not get stuck in soo deep in the rake.
That'd be ideal for handling logs for firewood cutting and processing.
That was really impressive right at the end, where you moved the entire pile over with the mini excavator. A lot of power in a small package.
Nice "Talladega Nights" reference! I know of someone married to a classmate of mine that could probably use one of these on his Kubota mini excavator. Maybe in '24, Mike Morgan can do a 10min challenge. I do know how far away from you he is though, since he's about 20mins from where I'm at.
I found the best way to move brush piles with a backhoe is to push it away from you. With that grapple bucket after you dig out a bush rub the grapple against the ground when you are uncurling it.
Outdoors with the morgans channel Mike has the same werk-brau grapple he does so much with it I think the more you use it you will love it.
Get Mike Morgan to show you how to run that thing
😂
The older I get the more I appreciate equipment. When I was younger I was a grab it and growl kinda guy but you don't get to do that all your life
Nice grapple attachment! Works well to rip out brush and small trees without picking up soil and pile brush on a burn pile.
How nice to be able to dig a sapling (or other) up and grab it to move it out of the way! Did anyone mention about stacking the trees beside you?... 🤔
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This looks fun. One thing I think from watching the video. You’re pulling the trees up and then you’re swinging them 180° and stacking them up behind you if you just pull them off to the side and stack them on the side it’s been a lot less time spinning around, and my guess is you get it done a bit faster. I’m just guessing from watching the video, but that seems like it would make sense, then, of course, you’d have to pick it up from a different location, but it just seems like moving the trees out of the way after you pull them up would be much faster if you just drop them a little to the side
This with a tractor with a grapple would be really efficient
Bought a Cat 304 about a year ago, probably the single most useful piece of equipment ever) don’t have a grapple, just use the thumb, but the brush cutter is a must down here in Louisiana. Huge ditches in south Louisiana that could possibly float an aircraft carrier, made simple with a readily available brush cutter attachment. My 304 isn’t brand new like your Kubota but it is a Caterpillar which makes it superior in every way! Lmbo. Just picking, love the new Kubota, a very nice and and almost necessary machine. That’s how I sold it to the wife anyhow. Lol.
We need to see Christy to run the mini excavator.
This attachment is cooler than the other side of the pillow.
That rake looks to be great for brush, vines, heavy shrubs and small trees. Really allows you to rake up the debris. Instead of dumping in the main pile each time I notice that Chris on Lets Dig 18( LD18) will place spoils just off to the side of the work area until he gets a full load. He will then grab all that and walk to the main pile. Minimizes all the rotating around. Possible that in some cases that may save time.
I watch another channel (V belt & son) that uses a Engcon Tiltrotator. That would be handy to have. They also have a Mecalac excavator. Very versatile machine.
LETS GET STARTED
That's a nice rig! Not sure if it's actually faster than tractor mulcher so long as it'll handle the material since once it grinds it up you don't have to handle it again, or burn it, so have to take that time into account as well because you're not done when you rip them out and pile it up. Also leaves more of a mess on the ground. But I'd love to have that thing!!
We need a burn pile video!
I was thinking I could probably have done that faster with my little 1025R, using its front mounted grapple and rear flail mower ... and then you said what I was thinking. One downside to a tractor is you can't pile brush anywhere near as high.
Once the leaves were all gone I'd chip up the wood. I prefer to wait until the leaves fall off because I can then use the chips to spread on a garden to suppress weeds.
I used to burn everything but these days the fire department frowns on larger fires (need a special permit, etc). Also leaving the carbon trapped in the wood chips (and in the soil it turns into) helps with my contribution to carbon capture.
Do you burn all of the brush and wood you remove? I've been told that burying it (chipped or not) is the most environmentally friendly.
one thing to notice with mini ex work is how the ground is not disturbed by the machine nearly as much as it would be with a tractor or a skid steer since you are able to pivot the cab and arm. if you watch dirt perfect he uses a bucket since it can close down better than that rake attacks the tree from the side and once he bends it over at a 45 he closes the bucket and thumb that way the tree is then ripped and held perpendicular to the machine for easier stacking. He rips it out and drops it and keeps moving. once you get a lot you scrape them all together in one motion and move them to the pile. a lot less twisting and turning. it also avoids the problem you were having with them getting caught in the tines.
its impressive what just 80 hours in a machine can do to skill level
Yeah love that rake I’ve been tried to fine one for my 1025r JD but no one has made any.
Do you mean to replace the bucket on the backhoe or on the loader?
There are several good options for grapple rakes that install where your front bucket is.
Google GPJ248G to see the one I bought a few years ago. It is an excellent lightweight, low cost match for the 1025R. I've used it to move many thousands of trees and big rocks.
There are higher quality grapples with tighter joints and proper grease fittings, but I'd buy this low cost option again if I needed one for a small tractor.
So when will we see the channel updated to Excavator Time with Tim! :D
My wife was not a fan of the idea of me buying a mini excavator. Now she loves the thing. Love my tractors but there are jobs that an excavator is just the right thing for.
Messicks a helping hand for your land
This attachment would beat the tractor grapple for things like feeding a wood chipper as you can feed the brush in length wise.
The bucket may have a design flaw since it seems to have release issues. Maybe a change to the teeth or support bracing may fix that.
I doubt it would take out the ones I need removed. Silver maple multi trunks.
Move in closer to your next area to clear, boom out and rake to you. Swing L or R and repeat. Back up to clean the area that was too close, and bring the trash with you. When you have a load or have cleaned the arc, pick up your 'trash' an then place it out of your way. IMO your spending excess time swinging. As you reach out for another 'rake', anything that is stuck, rub the ground, or wait. Don't think it has to be clean after every cycle. Good luck. And each job is different, and poses different challenges.
Like the european version if the head unit would roatate 360 degrees it would make it a more effective tool
Fun to watch, thank you. But I'd NEVER do that with the attachment you used, I'd invest in an excavator mulching head. No cleanup needed.
How much have you run a mulcher head? Ever run one with a power pack?
I think they’re great with a power pack, but pretty slow with just the machine hydraulics. For me, it’s easier using a grapple to move logs and brush, especially getting the stump/root ball out. I’ve seen mulcher heads used to move brush, but that takes some skill to do it efficiently!
@@PurpleNovember Quite a bit doing property management/maintenance for my property and several others I do the same for. I've got two for tractor, one front on loader the second on rear three point. The front is identical to what you can mount on the excavator, I believe there's a couple companies that sell the conversion attachment so you can go back and forth between the X and tractor. The X just has better height and reach.
I don't use a power pack, tractor flow, have no slowdown or overheating issues in 100f running 12hrs with stops for tractor checks and hydration for me.
If your attachment GPM is being met it shouldn't slow down.
@@anthonyg6924 There’s usually no issues running with machine auxiliary hydraulics as far as temp, flow and pressure. Most mini X machines max out at 20-30 horsepower for auxiliary hydraulics. I’ve installed power packs that can send 150 horsepower to the mulching head, on 7 ton mini X with a 3 foot mulching head. That was pre-emission engine so the weight and size was doable. I’d hate to see the price on a power pack that size now.
Of course mulching head would be great. $20,000 instead of $800
@@TractorTimewithTim Most mulching heads don’t remove roots from the ground like you were doing.
Is that grapple bucket really $800?
I expected closer to $1,200- $1,400
Tim…. Stop turning with every tree you pull out. Just lay down all the trees beside where they are and pick em up at the end…. And put in piles. Turning waste tons of time
He needs to use it like he's hoeing a graden and then pick up the pile.
A little more time on the machine you will get better at runner then.. low RPM always a good start.....😊 🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔
Now i need to bring my tractor with chipper so you can use the excavator with the grapple to feed the chipper ….
Hey, I have a chipper now!
@@TractorTimewithTim so then I just need to bring my tractor to keep the episode orange ....
how you moved the brush at the end of the video is how you should of done it the first time. I know that would of been faster than a tractor by a lot
It appears to me that the thumb needs a faster closing speed. It was a limiting factor on how fast you wanted to operate.
Good Morning Tim, My momma always said if you have nothing nice to say don't say it , However
Not a good idea to be under the machine while in operation Safety First on all Jobs first lesson while doing construction .Just saying!!!
Really? Hmm. Never heard that before.
What part of my comment have you never Heard?? @@TractorTimewithTim
@@billlyttle8224 none of it.
Do you burn those piles??
Typically, yes. I mulched the last one with the 4075r we had. Used our Baumalight MP348
As always trying to make it work bigger than it is. Then you should have gotten a larger version of it. You must have been watching Tim Taylor from Home Inprovement
Got the largest I can haul without CDL.
@@TractorTimewithTim OK. Then you will have to be aware of the problem with that one.I am not sure if you would be able to get a Tilt a natural for that machine. That would spin the bucket attachment 365 degrees. I have heard that there are bit to get used to operate. I think that digger girl has one on her Kubota mini excavator.
i have a 35g and wish the arm was longer also
Tim nothing wrong with the salesman out there working their machines but I think the engineers need to get their butts out there and run their machines and see what's wrong what's good from Gary
Hey TimI know you're going to make a video in response to what Neil said from Messick.. I know you're going to have some type of response about this!!!
Haven’t heard from you in a long time! Great to see your comment.
Yes, we responded. ‘’Messick’s” is in the title.
just my opinion and experience.....i saw no specific benefit to the rake style head vs a toothed bucket for the purposes shown............also as i do this type of work sometimes stacking saplings in your work in groups before doing the 360degree rotation is much more time efficient for production work
TIM STAY AWAY FROM THE MACHINE IN OPERATION !
None of you look like Mike Morgan running it.
Should have gotten yourself grinder.
excavators arent strong in rotation, not only the rotating motor isnt strong, the boom isnt strong in lateral... the best is really to use the bucket to do what you showed, easy to get the small stuff even without the thumb!... the attachment you showed is usefull to rake, reposition, rake, reposition, rake, etc... you can do deeper than bucket teeths. its weird to see that you are a better operator than these guys tho! hat off to you
You'd be a lot quicker if you did not have an "operator in training" !!!
Painful to watch, slow jerky movements.
Horrible operator.
How is the pond going.
Only been 3 days since we published an episode on it…right???
Letsgooo!!!