Tree Grab for front end loader

amacca

Is there such a thing as a front loader mounted tree shear/grab?

Everything I see is for a telehandler or excavator..

I can see why there wouldn't be as if you used it for anything sizeable and cut low you would probably have bits of tree falling down onto you and the cab! + loader reach ain't great

To clarify, I don't even need the shear bit...a grab would do (although a grab with shear below would really be the rolls royce solution), I have a lot of escaped hedges, low enough, light enough stuff, I'd like to drive in grab above, go at base with chainsaw, and lift up drive away...if I just use the chainsaw bit by bit and tidy up by hand afterwards it becomes much more hassle, time consuming...I have one side I can approach from, other side is drain, it would reduce the man hours massively if I could grab the main bits, and remove them back on the side I can approach, I have a heavy duty woodchipper to process the stuff that wouldn't be suitable for firewood

If I could rotate a tine grab by 90 degrees it would probably do...was actually thinking of welding up a frame with brackets at 90 degrees but that's just hassle of there's a product on the market

Maybe an adapter bracket that converts a frontloader end into a digger or teleporter end?

I know someone's first piece of advice will be hire a tree surgeon but I have a lot of reasons to want to tip away at this myself piecemeal over the course of a couple of years + were talking escaped hedges really, blackthorn, light Ash etc etc

Is there such a product?

tabby aspreme

I've seen handy sized ones for skid steer loaders, could you adapt the fitting brackets to suit

cjpm

You’ll do an awful lot of what you want to do with a cheap silage shear grab from DoneDeal. For very small money

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124047433#Comment_124047433

I'd agree, If I could rotate it by 90 degrees!

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124047395#Comment_124047395

Yup, Looks like I might have to. I've done it before to mount a post driver designed for a 3 point Linkage to a loader, would rather avoid the work though!

Who2

there is a lad in emyvale in Monaghan that makes tree shears . He makes them with the knives removable so you can use it as a shears or just a grab and you can change the blades if it gets damaged which a lot of the others don’t do. He makes them sells them and hires them so he might be worth calling.

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124051297#Comment_124051297

Thanks, what's the name of the business?

Who2

I don’t know but I’ll try get a contact of a lad that bought off him.

bogman_bass

Would a tractor have a big enough hydraulic pump for a shear?

I don’t see the advantage of a vertical grab. You won’t get to grab it high because you will have to many branches in the way and if you grab it low it will be in the way for cutting

Plus, because it can’t fall over the top of the tree will just sit of the chainsaw.

Might be a case of being cheaper to get in a guy with the right gear

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124052952#Comment_124052952

I think with the run of hedges I'm looking at and there's a fair amount of it I could grab it above where I intend to cut and drive away with it.....they are all fairly uniform height wise...let go/not maintained at the same time...a sizeable run of it

The more I think of it a tine grab rotated by 90 degrees with side tines removed would do a decent job + be able to handle some smaller lighter branches in the way...only its designed to sit vertical....maybe if I welded something to attach to soft hands so it closes and grabs...+ I'd have a set of soft hands out of it

I think I know what you are saying re: tree sitting on top but I can overcome that

Also prepared to admit I could be wrong...but when it comes to getting lads to do most stuff it's usually more drawbacks than it's worth

In a the wrong time

Plough the place up

You'd nearly have the machinery bought thre price you pay them

They rarely do as good a job as I would do...I'm not being arrogant but I tend to leave something so we'll done the prick of thing isn't coming back at me again for the maximum amount of time it's reasonably possible to do....lads usually look to cut corners and I don't have the time to be managing them...I do have the time to tip away at this piecemeal and avoid all the shite above however