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- Managed to get a little work done between the rain storms with the RK55 and The RK by Top Dog Granite Grapple. The Grapple is fast becoming my favorite attachment for the tractor!
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I'm from Cape Breton Nova Scotia, and our winter has been mild with hardly any snow. I bought a set of chains for My Kioti tractor and we haven't had snow since. I enjoy your videos and will continue watching.
Mike thanks for giving a music credit in the openings. My wife does not mind your videos when your soundtracks are so good. Your openings answer to many questions that I have about you woods.
Nice way to move the brush, with the grapple!! 👊
glad you uploaded this specific video. It popped a question in my head and the answer. Noticed how it was hard to see down low for using the grapple, while I was opening the box to my new garmin back up cam. YES!! Will need to had a mount under the front of the new tractor with a static display for use in the cab. Of course with protection around the cam
Thats a great idea
In central Kentucky we have had 5 inches of rain in the last 3 days. It's a mess here too! Good info on the grapple! I love Rural King!
Flooding here in NW Indiana. Warm week ahead. Can't wait!
We bought a 78" grapple for my tractor. It's on the verge of being too large, but we also have plans of using it on a larger(100hp) tractor and a skid steer(haven't bought yet). We made a compromise and bought one that would fit multiple machines, instead of multiple grapples. Those things aren't cheap. It has done everything we have asked of it and more. Best investment for the tractor so far.
Mike - great to see the Grapple in use. You will love it and find many uses, especially when working by yourself.
Finally got some rain. .my ponds were only 15ft down. .so thankful for the rain, and more coming.
Olympia, WA is a magnet for wet weather, moss, and snowflakes, if you get my drift. Great vids!
That is an extremely nice machine. i love the grapple. I use forks on my front end loader to cut my trees up into 10’ logs and load them onto my 30’ gooseneck and haul the logs back to my house and I cut up my firewood at home and split it. It’s easier for me instead of hauling my tractor and splitter then having to stack the wood into my truck and bring it back. the grapple would be a nice addition to my New Holland 2120. Our winter has had every season included. Cold and dry, cold and wet, warm and dry, and now warm and wet. Brandenburg, KY. I love your videos.
Thanks Travis
I’m in East Tennessee and it’s rained here 3 or 4 days out of every week since first of December, I can ever remember it raining this much and I’ve lived here most of my life.
Friendsville, TN we have had so much rain. Pond has over flowed and back yard is a mud pit from the ducks and chickens. This is the most rain we have seen in the 6 years we been here.
We need about 5 days of sun, wind, and warm temps. It will happen sometime just hope it's sooner than later
Curious to see your thoughts on the RK24. I have 5 acres and looking at getting one of these after looking at them at our Rural King .
We’re in the north west. A week and a half (Thursday) ago I mowed the lawn. Sunday it snowed 8 inches. It finally started melting today. It’s rare snow sticks around for a week. So we enjoyed it. Now we’re back to the sloppy wet weather.
Nice implement!
Weather here in north central Indiana has been unusual. Very little snow and lately a lot of rain.
Stopping by to show some love. I enjoy your channel and all of your projects you tackle on a regular basis. Be safe and take care.
Typical winter weather here in the Northwest, Mike.... gray skies, rain, moderate temps. That is one giant grapple you have there. I have a four footer I bought from the Kubota dealer that I use more than our bucket. Isn’t it the greatest? Enjoyed your video, as usual.
Thanks for silencing the beeper, much better.
Mike you are one lucky man beautiful family, lots of cool toys and lots of room to play. but just like me it seems you have cabin fever it sure will be nice when the weather starts to cooperate and we can all get out and do what we enjoy doing. Thanks for the info and video.
I live in western North Carolina at the base of the blue ridge mountains. Our winter has been long. The wettest winter I can remember and for nearly 3 weeks the temperature never got above freezing. Our local major river froze over during that period. Now it has warmed up into the 60's but it is still cloudy and rainy. I am sick of the rain as well....this must be what it's like to live in Seattle.
Good winter here in Western Washington! Lots of snow in the mountains and lots of rain at our place. I have a JD 4044 and a EA wicked grapple. Easily my favorite implement. Very tough and super versatile.
Hi Mike.grapple looks very handy.saves alot of hand work.looks like you could build a pond were you were pulling the brush out.same weather here in ne pa lots of rain and two bad ice storms.some snow now alot.thanks for the video.
Northern NH has been up and down all winter. Very cold early on and then up tp 69 degrees a short while ago. I think a small grapple may be in my future. I can see a lot of uses for it in my world. Thanks for sharing.
I’m about 50 miles north west of Albany NY- December here was very cold, most days in the negative numbers- blew thru about double the amount of firewood I did last year, then Jan and Feb lots of snow storms- recently warm on and off and flooding due to melting ice and snow mostly- thanks again for the videos Mike!!!
I'm in Maine and we had almost 100 inches of snow so far. It is slowly melting.... Great video!
Portland Australia 🇦🇺 just finishing summer, been a great summer very warm , can’t wait to get the fire wood cutting going again. Great Vid 👍
Hi Morgan’s...really like your channel. Bring on as many new videos as you can! Here in W Iowa we’ve spent the last few weeks getting snow showers, thunder snow and sleet along with several coatings of ice plus fog. Sure could use that new tractor of yours on the drive way. Now we’re looking at a week of 40 degree temps...maybe it’ll be spring 🌈☀️👍
I live in the north corner of Tennessee where Kentucky , Virginia ,and Tennessee meet in Harrogate,Tn. Our weather has been extremely wet with a lot of rain and some flooding and really warm for February . I,m thankful for the rain but looking forward to drier weather so I can started on wood and other projects. Look forward to your videos!
Checking in from NW Louisiana, Farm in East Texas. The coldest it has been in a decade, and weeks of rain. Almost every day, everything is soaked.
im glad you're keeping those big gorgeous pine trees in front of that house :D
That is a sweet tractor Mike. I like I even better now that the back up alarm was magically disconnected.
Must have quit working lol
Glad it malfunctioned, especially for a guy like you that backs up as much as you do.
Without having a mini excavator with a thumb in the garage this looks to be the perfect homestead tool for cleanup. I agree that limbing up trees and getting rid of the underbrush is the way to go. I had land in Bastrop TX affected by that huge fire a few years back, all of that was caused by thick underbrush and careless burning. Many homes were lost. luckily for me, my property was spared, but prior cleanup of the underbrush I feel saved me.
I very much agree with the title. The EA brush/skeleton bucket grapple (not the root rake version) I have, and a set of pallet forks are probably the two things I use the most on the front of my tractor. Between the grapple and a box blade I've taken a 1/2 acre lot that was overgrown with 6ft.+ weeds & saplings back to bare dirt in less than a full day. I used the box bade like a huge rake to pull vegetation into windrows, and then the grapple to scoop the windrows up and dump everything into a small ravine on the property. I've found an easy way to remove trees is to push them over, and then push on the base of the trunk like it's an axle and the root ball is a wheel. Doing so has let me remove trees that would otherwise be too much to just brute force out of the ground (assuming the tree is healthy enough to be used as a lever).
Watching this is making me wish it'd dry up here (Northern Alabama) enough that I could take my tractor out and hit some spots with the mower. We've gotten enough rain in the last few weeks that the ground is saturated, and just about every low spots has been puddled/flooded for the last week. From what a neighbor has measured, we've gotten 11 inches of rain in the last 9 days ...so it'll probably be wet for a while yet.
That grapples a beast- great looking tractor and well balanced with the backhoe- keep the videos coming!!!!!
Will do, Thanks
Nice Mike, for those of you who can't afford several implements a 4 into 1 bucket will suffice, not a good as a grapple but very versatile. Keep up the great work.
I'm with you Mike, I love my grapple. I've had it for a year and I find it to be a very versatile tool. With heavy duty straps I use it as a forklift and while building a raised art studio for my wife I've used it to lift the walls 6' up on the structure.
I’m in Tennessee and we have had TONS. Of rain!!! Great video!
I say in three months or less we will start hearing drought lol
In central Oklahoma it went from 60's, to snow/ice/sleet for 3 days, to a good amount of rain yesterday to back in the 60's today over the last week. I'm dying for Spring to hit so I can get outside and start on some projects.
To build on Tom's comment below... I fell on to your channel last night and binge watched a little... the wife might say a little too much! Your channel is relevant and valuable to guys like me - 50-somethings who love saws, tractors and tools and the idea of a simpler life but for whatever reason jumped on that tread mill and got stuck a little. Please know that I appreciate you sharing a small part of your life. To borrow from Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free rings true when I look at what you have built for you & your family. Please keep building and posting.
Thanks!
Can't wait to see these in the store. I have a RK37.
Hey Mike. I'm in central France and it's been wet and raining since November with only a few days of cold and snow. You worry about the tractor messing things up but I can't even go in the gardens with boots on for tearing up the Grass! Finally been cold and dry for the last week so startingmto get ready for the spring but so far behind already from the rain
Phoenix area here, its been a cool winter. By cool I mean mid to high 50's during the day and mid 30's to 40ish at night. Yes that cold for us! ;) I grew up in the NE though so i know what your going through MIke! hang in there it'll be hazy, hot and humid before ya know it!
Hi Mike, Same soggy weather here in York, Pa. Not quit as much snow as you have had this year. I bet you couldn't wait to get out and play with that grapple. You will find it useful for so many things. I hardly ever take mine off my larger tractor, I use my smaller tractor for bucket work on most jobs. May I suggest configuring a ratchet strap or some other means of holding your quick attach levers down. Tree branches tend to sneak through and unlatch them, I've had it happen. It can be seen happening on Everything Attachment's web site if you click on their wicked root grapple and find the video "The Grapple Song: Ode To The Grapple" about 40 seconds into the video the grapple comes unlatched. Looking forward to more grapple videos to see uses you find for it. Be safe out there.
Good video of the grapple. I live in Alabama we have had a colder and wetter winter than usual but the last few days have the weeds coming up and pear trees are already blooming. We are gettin our first Rural King store soon but it’s about 2 hours away. I hope it’s a tractor store too as I want to look at them. Feed back to RK they need to offer the 55 in hydrostatic without the cab. All we need in the south is a canopy. Keep the videos coming
I also meant to mention even with all the rain we’ve had they say we’re still in a drought. I wonder if there’s federal funds or farm subsidies for declaring a drought? There must be because the creeks are certainly full!
I'm in southeastern/coastal New Hampshire we started winter out really nice with several good snow falls......then the rains came (just like your 'neck of the woods') and it's been yo yo weather to the extremes, 50-60 deg. F temperature swings in the same 24 hrs. Rain started this morning and it is flip flopping rain to snow, foggy out in the Bay/rivers, crazy off and on stuff. It has also given us a really premature 'mud season' not fun! I was hoping to do some clearing with my grapple on frozen ground to cut down on the 'tire tilling' and that mess, if we don't get a refreeze I'm 'sol' until late spring around here. You said, "I can't wait to start working this grapple", looks to me like you are working it! I am really impressed with that RK tractor you are using! 'Everything Attachments' in NC is a great manufacturer and supplier of all sizes and models of grappling equipment and tractor implements, made in their shop, with free shipping for a 1,000 mile radius. I am not an owner of any of their attachments because I bought mine from my Kubota dealer and they were written into the original tractor deal, but I have seen their YT demo videos, and am really impressed. Be well my friend
🇬🇧has a lot more snow this year than normal. Severe snow coming back in this week from the north. Roll on spring
I'm north of Scranton, PA so you pretty much summed up my weather.
In the Timiskaming Region of Northeast Ontario it has been a little colder than normal with not as much snow. We had lots of -30C morning lows in January and have about 18 inches to 2 feet of snow on the ground which is about half of normal .
Northwest Mississippi here. We have had a couple of weeks of bitter cold (single digits) with only one small snow and ice event. The rest of the winter has been miserably wet. I'm ready for some warmth and sunshine.
I live in bonifay Fl topical winter, I have a grapple on my 65 horse John Deere priceless factor installed 3rd functional value a must !! I am a 1 man crew!!
My winter has been like yours , cold then warm then snow then rain here in Orrville Ohio it’s been kind of a crazy one !! Can’t wait till dries out !!!
Hi Mike, I'm from Australia so your freezing winter was my extremely hot summer. Love your videos and the new RK toy.
I knew you would like the grapple, surprised you didn't have one before. You will get plenty of use out of it, real back saver.
Here in Ohio wet and soupy. Can't wait to see you move the big stuff. We don't have a grapple on our farm yet but I've looked at plenty and Rk's are very nice.
Southwest Ohio between Cincinnati and Dayton. Rain, snow then rain, snow now rain just as you have.
Stay dry and stay safe.
Hey Mike thanks for the video. Iam from Michigan and it's been a crazy winter here we have only got around 2 foot total but in small amounts it's been warm and cold. It's hit 60's here a few times. Lots of wind and rain lately.
After pruning hundreds of fir and pine trees with a stihl I now due it with a cordless reciprocating saw. Not as heavy (can easily operate it overhead with one hand), much safer, not as loud, no exhaust, cleaner cut than with a chain, and you can get into tighter spots. The down side is they go through the lithium batteries quickly but I have enough that I just switch them up often. Overall I would not go back to the chainsaw unless the branches are over 4" diameter. You do need good blades for green wood but amazon is a great thing. Your channel is definetly going in the right direction.
Hi Mike our winter here on the UK has been a little mixed, some cold, some warm spells. Over the next few days we are forecast to have many days below freezing, -15c (5f) and 4" of snow! That's unusual for the South East of England. Expect major disruption! I'll keep you posted.
Couldn’t live without mine down here in Georgia moving pine trees and pine tree stumps!
I am from the Arkansas Ozarks. Our winter until last week has been very dry and at times really cold for here. Single digits quite a few mornings. This past week to 10 days we have caught up a lot on rain. Real wet right now. Hardly any snow but freezing fog and a little freezing rain at time but not enough to knock out the power.
Mike you are going to have a lot of fun with that grapple !! And still just 2" of snow on christmas and now 4 1/2 to 5 1/2" of rain now the last two days here in il. ! have a great week ! Curt :-)
Another viewer from California. We're in north Orange County (about 30 miles inland from Huntington Beach listed below). We have had our first two weeks of "cold weather" with highs in the 59-62 range. We've had only one (!) rain this year so far (an inch+) and we've had high 70's, low 80's all through Nov-Jan! You may think that sounds great but a lot of us miss our rainy season.
Hello Mike, love the videos!
Huntington Beach California! I hate to upset all your fans but the coldest it has been here is 65. Sunny all the time!! I have to live vicariously through you guys because we don’t get to experience seasons. We also live in the concrete jungle and I dream someday living in an area like you have.
Please keep up the great work and thank you for sharing.
Tom
Winter here, south of Lake Ontario in upstate NY has been very mild of late and considerably less than 200" of snow this winter. Fifty miles north eastish however, is another world. They don't measure snow in inches. They measure in feet. I'd bet they are over thirty feet and could easily get another 5 in any 24 hour period.
Summer here in Queensland Australia atm. We have just had a week of tropical lows so we had 18” of rain in a week and 95-105’f weather so she is very humid
Awesome videos Mike
Wow, thats got to be rough
Great video. Here in northwest Florida we actually had snow twice this winter. Warm weather coming now.
Mike, you may want to put some type of grill guard in front of your engine cover, especially if the radiator is in front. When working with brush, it's real easy to have a limb poke right through that front cover. I did that the 1st time using the grapple in heavy brush, and was lucky not to puncture the radiator. A lot of guys weld that expanded metal in front somehow to guard the front. Also, you're going to like how that heavy of a tractor will push over a fairly large tree, if you push it from up high, and that helps pop the roots, and then you just scoop up under the roots and grab the whole thing. Most important, have fun!!
Thanks Steve, Great comment
He mike great video again. Dunham quebec the weather is not to nice over here to. It started good with a lot of snow but for the last 3 weeks raining snowing and freezing rain really bad weather to work out side good thing I have some work to do in my basement. We build a house my wife and I 2 years ago and now we're finishing the basement so it's keeping me occupied but can't wait to get out of the house a bit 🌞
Grapples are the best! Mike it's snowed twice in the last week here in Seattle, and our mountains passes are a mess this weekend getting up to 2 feet of snow.
I live in uk just outside London and it”s been wet, 1 day of snow not many frosty mornings, and we are just having a few really,cold days at the moment, love your videos keep it up 👍
Thanks Barry
Keep an eye on the hydraulic hoses and lines ... if brush gets in them they can bend up, rip off easy... same goes for sticks poking up from underneath your tractor
Here in central Michigan it's ben a winter like yours , the snow is gone and I saw my first snunk this morning crossing the road
Skunk
That Grapple makes short work of piling brush. Remember the old days; dragging limbs by hand or using a chain to pull up bushes. I'm sure you'll get a lot of use out of it. It makes it so much easier.
Yes it will make life a lot easier
Holy cow Mike! I gotta get me a grapple. That just plain looks like fun. And here on the southern tip of Ohio we are up to our elbows in mud with 60 degrees.
I live in central PA ,, been a weird winter and about 5 small snows 2-5 inches ,, then 70 degrees then cold again ,, now in January and early February we had some really cold weather in single digits and alot of minis temps also.. so it’s been a strange one ,, thought for sure we would have gotten more snow than what we got...
Central Massachusetts (Worcester area) The winter has been pretty mild. It has only snowed maybe 5 times, and only one of those storms was over 12", (Most in the area of 6" of snowfall ) We did have a couple of weeks below zero, but at the same time we had a couple of weeks in the 50's and 60's.....overall, very mild indeed.
Hey mike, another great video! That thing is awesome for clearing brush and tagalder busy stuff it looks like! Winter here in southern Ontario has been mild the last week and a half 4” of rain last week and double digit temps, can’t wait for it to dry up as well to start cutting my roads back to the 100 acre lot that meets my current 15 acres!!
I live New Brunswick, Canada. We have had up to 8 FEET! of snow with some bone chillin -35° Celsius temps, that is with the wind chill and some freezing rain so far. Right now it is very mild
Virginia, just south of Quantico. Mild winters for the past few. No snow to speak of for 3 years now. Winter here has been 3 weeks of cold weather, some rain, mixed with 60's to 80's. Which we had last week.
Up here in NH we have had the full range this year, snow, sleet, freezing rain, rain. Not much snow on the ground now (about an inch) but it is snowing now and we are getting 2-3" today. Hit 70 degrees the other day, got huge ruts in the roads because of the thick thaw. The guys collecting maple tree sap had to scurry around.
Looking forward to the projects on my property, we have 189 acres, mostly woods, but I do have to maintain the trails! I am hoping in three years to be able to get a tractor, I am in my early 60's and could use the additional help!
Years ago I worked in New Hampshire, first time I was ever introduced to a frost heave, saw a sign on side of road "Frost Heave" I'm like whats that? then bam at 50mph figured it out
Yes sir! Its like a mini roller-coaster! They will break springs and shocks and all kinds of other things! They put down new asphalt this past summer (1" smoothing coat....) and it has already started cracking and heaving! Gird your loins!
Hay Mike - where in NH did you work? I am in the Lakes Region- White Mts ( still have ice and snow cover and currently snowing at about 1 in per hr.)
Nice grapple could use one of those suckers. From wernersville pa outside of reading sure has been a wet and rainy winter at least it's not snow
Hi mike, Rob here from Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England. Had a cold winter this year, but this week we are getting a lot of snow coming across from Russia and Siberia. Gotta keep logging. Atb.
Cool here in Orange County, CA. Not much rain so far this winter.
Two words: Forestry mulcher. More toys for the homestead. Love the videos.
Shelby co Alabama. Hot Fall, cold winter with tons of snow, so far hot spring. This year you really can never tell what the weather is going to do.
Mike, we will be willing to share some of the 88° sunny weather we are experiencing in Orangedale, Florida.
Please do
South Central Pa....just finished another .85” overnight. On top of the last three days of rain. In other words, it’s totally sloppy out and the sump pump is running for all it’s worth. Calling for another inch and a quarter to inch and a half Thursday thru Friday morning. This will equal a total muddy mess 😞
Like the tractor and the grapple...nice system!
Montana here. Seeley Lake. We have another snow storm moving in now.
“To look outside it looks like another cold and cloudy day in Billings and that would be incorrect.
The temperature Billings at 2 p.m. Sunday was 32 degrees with a wind chill factor of 21 degrees above zero.
However, the Doppler radar and satellite imagery shows a massive storm starting the track its way across Montana.
So far, the only snow falling from underneath those clouds is over by a Kalispell, Great Falls and Missoula.
However, because it’s a new storm we have a Winter Weather Advisory the covers almost ¾ of the state.
There’s a lot of blowing and drifting snow and new snow amounts ranging anywhere from 1 to 3 up to 12 inches of snow in the southwest.
Plus with all the wind we have a High Wind Warning and a Blizzard Warning from around Glacier National Park all the way down to just outside a Great Falls.
Winds there could be gusting up to 65 mph with local snowfall amounts up to 18 inches in the Blizzard Warning area.
We also have a Winter Storm Warning for northwest of Missoula for 5 to 8 inches of snow in the valleys and up to 14 inches of snow in the mountains.”
San Diego - been cold for us these past few days (down into the mid 30’s at night), not too much rain yet, hopefully we don’t get into draught conditions again this summer...
Less than 16 inches of snow all winter. Rain and freezing rain ! At present no snow getting 8 to 10 inches latter this week. Southern New Brunswick Canada ! Next to Maine .Mild mild winter not that SOUTHERN NB gets a lot of snow
I bought a grapple with my BX23S. Much smaller than what you have, but so useful! If you have woods and brush it would be difficult to do without one. The weather, central VA, has been warm and off and on rain. Just when you think you might get some drying, it pours. Way too much mud for my little BX at the moment, although I'm becoming an expert at getting unstuck :)
Too much mud for anything! I have had enough
It's been an extremely wet winter here in New Richmond, OH just east of Cincinnati. In fact, there's flooding all along the Ohio River. It's really sad. The river hasn't flooded this bad in 20 years. Btw, nice grapple! I've been looking for one for my John Deere 1025r TLB.
mid sweden, the snow has been on the ground since november had a couple fairly cold days of around -26celcius and we still have over 20 inches of snow on the ground, right now it's - 13celcius
Outside of KC, it’s been a fairly mild winter up to last week. The schools were closed last week until Friday as we had ice/sleet...I sure don’t remember any ice/sleet days😳.
SnapperKC I'm just outside KC as well....Freeman, just west of Harrisonville
For some of your other viewers, I put a small grapple made by by Innovative Attachments on a 29hp gas JOHN Deere x-485 sub-compact because he was the only one I could find that made a grapple for tractors that small. And boy, what an awesome tool for when you can’t get your big tractors close to the work. It has a few limitations, but it really converts a garden tractor into a pretty heavy duty clearing/logging machine. I have uploaded a few videos of the grapple at work under Ed de Varona here on UA-cam. I’m sure RK can come up with an even better one for the little tractors because this one works with the JD Quick Hitch and blade or snow blower attachment. This is a good option for small tractors that don’t have a front end loader and still need a grapple.
In southwest Ohio, not a bad winter by any means, however we are experiencing the worst flooding in over 20 years.
Georgia is sunny and 80s the last week, rain today though. I was hoping for more sun today seeing how there's work to be done.
I live in East Tennessee our winter was dry in Dec and mid Jan very cold also then the rains came now it's in the seventys
I have Grapple envy. I need this so badly. Someone please talk to my wife :)
Noneofyeah Business ha ha that is the truth! If she asks i'll tell her nonofyeah business said it was ok! 👍
Near St. Louis MO it has been a mild winter. No real snow to speak of and a night or 2 of ice and that's it. It has been cold a lot, but not bad at all.