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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Earthwerks Unlimited" data-source="post: 10806" data-attributes="member: 1300"><p>You're better off having more pressure on the bucket than not enough. There's nothing more annoying than trying to grab a piece of sheet metal and it won't grab enough. And keep in mind that bucket cutting egdes eventually wear down so it's best to move the tooth/teeth in ward rather outward toward the front edge. Case in point when I and 30 other buddies went to Miss. to clean up Hurricane Katrina in '05 I was the only one who bought a $5300 Bobcat brand industrial grapple bucket. The other guys bought the cheapest they could find. Long story short their bucket cutting edges wore down 10 times quicker and much farther than mine. After 500 hours on mine the teeth are still way behind the leading edge, and very little is worn away. Theirs look like snaggle tooth lions with big-time overbite---which drastically reduces the "grab-ability". And their grapple teeth were badly bent too. You get what you pay for. BTW, my grapple closes so tightly that I can literally close one tooth on a single link of tow chain and pull stuff out (like pulling myself out of Mississippi mud hole) without it pulling off the tooth.</p></blockquote><p></p>