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Read articles →Part of a series on budget grapple options, this video focuses specifically on a pallet-fork-mounted grapple attachment from Precision Manufacturing in Sedalia, Missouri. Mike walks through two versions (fixed and adjustable), then shares real hands-on results moving locust trees, fence posts, rocks, and hay bales, including honest limits like reduced fork clearance and awkward pallet use. Best for compact-tractor owners weighing a low-cost grapple add-on over buying a dedicated unit.
Tractor Mike is a longtime tractor-industry insider with decades of hands-on experience in the equipment business. He built his channel to help first-time and rural buyers make confident decisions, and his guidance comes from that deep, long-term background rather than a sales pitch.
The adjustable version lets you move the grapple higher for a wider opening to grab more brush, and lets you lift pallets or hay bales without removing it.
Not really. If the forks were narrow enough to get under the rock, you could lift it, but the grapple itself added nothing over plain forks.
It did a great job getting under locust trees tangled in grass, clamping them, and moving them to the burn pile, where it really shines.
It digs into dirt because of the mechanism under the forks, and it is hard to use as plain pallet forks since the opening is small.
