You should check with that company about being a sales rep!I've owned one for quite a few years, found it used like new for way cheap. I'd have to say it's the most versatile attachment I own for my skid. It takes out concrete flatwork like a champ, can grab and drag if needed, and because of it's design can lower pieces into a dump bed rather than drop like forks. The fork design will allow a prying leverage that it truly remarkable. As stated above, you do of course disturb the subgrade, especially with a CTL, but frankly, I've never pulled flatwork out that we didn't completely re-do that anyway. Pulling flatwork and then re-pouring without compaction and bedding rock prep is generally not considered good practice, at least in my area. We have pronounced freeze/thaw cycles along with some seismic activity, and 8/10s of what we R&R is due to poor subgrade prep.
It works for demolition, will work for clearing brush, stumps and rocks, tho there's better around for that, but in a pinch saves running back for a grapple. I have used it for placing rock when there was nothing else around. If you have a gentle touch on the controls, it will place culvert and other kinda fragile stuff, but the beak grapple exerts considerable force so it's not my first pick. It doesn't weigh all that much, so if you need to chain and lift something, it's friendly like that.
The biggest thing to these is those shorter, extremely stout forks. I don't know what it would take to bend them, but I'm fairly certain you'd tweak your loader arms before they'd give. You can dig into a corner of a tearout slab, wiggle in and curl, and if there's no rebar I've never met anything I couldn't break and get started. It is accurate enough to stack 2 or more pieces up while tearing out, and then grab all and save trips to the truck that way.
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Very well written review. I don't do much concrete tear out, but you've about sold me on wanting to add this to my attachments fleet.I've owned one for quite a few years, found it used like new for way cheap. I'd have to say it's the most versatile attachment I own for my skid. It takes out concrete flatwork like a champ, can grab and drag if needed, and because of it's design can lower pieces into a dump bed rather than drop like forks. The fork design will allow a prying leverage that it truly remarkable. As stated above, you do of course disturb the subgrade, especially with a CTL, but frankly, I've never pulled flatwork out that we didn't completely re-do that anyway. Pulling flatwork and then re-pouring without compaction and bedding rock prep is generally not considered good practice, at least in my area. We have pronounced freeze/thaw cycles along with some seismic activity, and 8/10s of what we R&R is due to poor subgrade prep.
It works for demolition, will work for clearing brush, stumps and rocks, tho there's better around for that, but in a pinch saves running back for a grapple. I have used it for placing rock when there was nothing else around. If you have a gentle touch on the controls, it will place culvert and other kinda fragile stuff, but the beak grapple exerts considerable force so it's not my first pick. It doesn't weigh all that much, so if you need to chain and lift something, it's friendly like that.
The biggest thing to these is those shorter, extremely stout forks. I don't know what it would take to bend them, but I'm fairly certain you'd tweak your loader arms before they'd give. You can dig into a corner of a tearout slab, wiggle in and curl, and if there's no rebar I've never met anything I couldn't break and get started. It is accurate enough to stack 2 or more pieces up while tearing out, and then grab all and save trips to the truck that way.
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