It is strong enough to shear smaller tree's off, takes a little practice to be able to pull small stuff without breaking them off first. Works best when the ground is wet.
Thanks you! No issues with it bending and I've used it pretty hard on our 85hp 2,000lb capacity machine. I cut the jaws out of a piece of 3/4"x6" plate with a torch and cleaned them up a little bit with a grinder.
This is a tree and fence post puller I built last year. Most of the frame is 4x4x1/2" tubing, the jaws and pivot plates are 3/4"x6" plate. I used an open center 1/2" thick skid steer plate and kept the center open for better visibility to the jaws. The cylinder is a 3x8" cylinder from the...
Might be too late to help you but during the XT production they came out with a new wheel motor that was supposed to fix the problem. I forget the details but on the early ones the motor would loose the bearing preload and take out the seals. From what I could find out the early models with the...
Here are pictures of the bale mover I built for our 70XT. The top and bottom tubes are 3x4x1/4” tubing and I started with a full 1/4” mounting plate that I cut down for better visibility to the spears. There is 5” of angle built into the mounts for better rollback angles. A 1/2” pin holds...