Another worthless tool

Geo-TH,In

Well-known Member
A brush grabber is added to my pile of worthless tools. It strips bark off instead of pulling it out.

Someone on YT suggest using chain and pipe. So far it works the best on larger trees. Still have to use flaring tool clamp on pencil size trees.
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I use backhoe when I can, however there are times when I want to pull trees out of flowers and bushes and not dig them up. This gets the job done. I pulled 5 trees out of a reddendum bush and didn't hurt it's roots.
 
A small chain wrapped twice with the slip hook works for me. I built a homemade grabber for the smaller stuff that is hand operated. Ron Mn
 
I just wrap a chain and lift that small stuff or take a shovel and go around it and cut roots and pull them out by hand. That one puller In last picture looks like a pallet puller used to slide pallets out of truck.
 
D beatty,
Extraction is my only workable option. Notice one pic I reached over a wooden fence. Brick had to be moved. I pulled it out without doing a lot of work. Front loader did all the work. Many trees extracted had roots from other bushes or flowers close by and I don't want to disturb the roots.

5 wraps with chain and the pipe worked best for vertical extraction.

Don't spend $50 on a worthless brush grabber.

Now what can I do with it?
geo
 

George, you better get around to a bunch of yard sales tomorrow, and get some more tools to critique. you told us about the brush grabber already, two weeks ago, LOL.
 
I use rags to help wipe dirt off the on the cylinder rods. There is a wiper ring and an o-ring on the end of the cylinder. I'm tired of rebuilding cylinders. The O-ring is easily damaged. I have one cylinder pointing upward. I got caught in the rain. The rain water and fine dirt damaged the O-ring. BTW, I have a many replacement O-rings. geo.
 
(quoted from post at 20:54:54 06/24/16) Are you sure it is intended to be a bush grabber ??? It looks to me that it is a pallet puller.

It looks very much like a pallet puller, but it is not. The difference is the jaws. The jaws on this would not grip a pallet. The last time George posted about it the pictures showed the jaws more clearly. It is likely that the inventor of this tool got the idea from a pallet puller.
 
those things are junk i agree, a backhoe and thumb or an excavator with one preferably hydraulic, is the best way, but like most people there isnt one around when you need one ,since there really isnt a way to power that grabber with a cylinder and make it grab something, how about building a tooth about a foot wide, which mounts solid to the top of the bucket, allowing you to use the bucket and that to put pressure against a brush and pull?when the bucket rotated to the full rollback position it would close solid against the tooth, that would allow you to carefully reach into a place and get the trash without damaging the other plants
 
showcrop,
Yes I did post the worthless brush grabber. However I've try the pipe and choker chain as someone suggested after the post a few weeks ago. So far it does 99% of extracting I need to do. There is a time or two I have to use flaring tool clamp. When a tree too big for me to pull by hand and too small for the chain.

Does anyone have a suggestion what I can do with the worthless brush grabber?
geo
 

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