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48” Wicked Root Rake Grapple for a Kubota bx25	December 8, 2023
Reviewer: Arney Hopper from Mooresville , IN United States

Great communication, quick responses to all questions! Thanks I will be looking for more items to purchase in the future.

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Top notch workmanship!	October 19, 2023
Reviewer: Rick C. from BLUEMONT, VA United States

The welds and finish on this are awesome and it works as it should. Glad to see that a US mfg. is able to build a superior product at a fair price.

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	October 3, 2023
Reviewer: Don Blachaniec from Lancaster , NY United States

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	August 30, 2023
Reviewer: Sebastian Buzuq from Clair, MI United States

Excellent product!

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Grapple ok, 3rd function kit lacking improve both	June 26, 2023
Reviewer: Jake from Harwood, MD United States

The pin-on grapple is mostly well designed but could use some improvement. The loader arm brakets are about 1/2" too close together so I had to compress the arms to fit. The grapple is not direct pin-on, you need to use the EA provided pins instead of the Kubota pins with grease channels built into them. The pin design doesn't account for the FEL parking stand so that has to be removed when the grapple is installed. They installed straight grease zerks into the grapple pivot point which makes it impossible to grease with a standard gun, just ordered angled zerk fittings.
The the provided hoses on the tractor side for the 3rd function kit are too long and instead of having the return line go directly back into the trans it has you use the existing hose creating another coupling to leak and limited room around the control box. I had custom hoses made for $130 so one of the hoses wouldn't be dragging on the ground or caught up in the belly mower. EA RESPONSE: It sounds like something was not properly installed, concerning the valve kit, because our Wicked Grapple and WR Long valve kit include properly sized hoses for the tractor requested. We will reach out to find out what is going on here.

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Grapple is awesome, 3rd valve kit sucks.	June 26, 2023
Reviewer: Robert Harris from Lyme, CT United States

Everyone knows this is the best grapple available for the BX so I'll skip to the 3rd valve add on kit. I wasn't impressed. Lines that came with grapple are minimal and I still have to get them remade as they were too short for full curl. An odd place to cut a corner on a grapple this expensive. EA RESPONSE: It sounds like something was not properly installed, concerning the valve kit, because our Wicked Grapple and WR Long valve kit include properly sized hoses for the tractor requested.

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Love my new grapple	June 2, 2023
Reviewer: MIKE KILLIN from OXFORD, OH United States

I’ve had my grapple for 4 days now and worked it for a couple hours each day.
I’ve been more than pleasantly surprised at what it can do on a little 25HP BX tractor. It is a beast and it is awesome!! Your back will love you for getting one. This grapple will likely be the most used implement I have for my Kubota BX.
In a couple of other reviews there were some complaints about grease zerks not being accessible for the top clamp pins but that is a simple fix - just replace them with 90 degree Zerks for about $1 each.
I also agree that it would have been nicer for the pins that are supplied to fit the grapple to the tractor had a beveled leading edge, but that was a quick modification with the grinder.
I’d buy one again in a heartbeat and have zero regrets!

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Great People	May 12, 2023
Reviewer: James Ortery from Liberty, MO United States

After the long wait, it has performed as designed and is strong due to being fully welded. Great clamping force and grip. I'm just a touch disappointed in the top hydraulic cylinder greaseable bolts used verses the pins pictured on the website. They make it difficult to grease the hinges in the lid as the nuts are in the way with a straight fitting on your grease gun, and they make contact with the mounting brackets as they're too big. A slight design change could correct they issue or relocate the grease fittings. The paint isn't holding up well at all, any contact it comes off, not other attachment that I've purchased or that came with the tractor has done this, sure they have gotten scratched and marred, but not straight to bare metal. In all it works great and has done what I hoped that it would do. I would purchase another one. Thanks for allowing my input, I'm more crucial than most end users. EA RESPONSE; We use bolts instead of pins because they're much more stable with zero chance of slipping off, contrary to how pins mysteriously become missing during use. By the review, it makes it sounds like we're using bolts to cut corners, but it is actually just the opposite. We also center drill the bolts and tap them in house, which makes them greasable. With ground engaging attachments such as this grapple, paint is something to make it look pretty off the pallet, but if you get it out and use it, it's only a matter of time before it disappears. I hope these words assist others. Thanks for the business.

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Kubota BX third function kit installation.	January 4, 2023
Reviewer: Glenn Nunsinger from Georgetown, CA United States

The the third function kit arrived long before the wicked grapple and I decided to wait until the grapple arrived before installing the third function kit. When I started to install the third function valve I found that the valve bracket was not designed to fit my tractor. When the manufacturer silently declined to replace their bracket with one that did fit, I enlisted the help of a local welder to manufacture a bracket that would fit my tractor. Now I'm in the process of routing the third function kit hydraulic hoses from my tractor to the third function valve. I'm considering removing the right rear tractor wheel to facilitate installing those hoses. The third function kit installation instructions are so abbreviated that they are almost useless. The grapple looks like it should work nicely, but I have not yet finished installing the third function kit.

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Review	January 4, 2023
Reviewer: Kevin Makely from Amosville, VA United States

The Grapple is awesome I love it, but a few things could be better rounding the edges of the pins would be very beneficial and make installing much easier also I had spent the day trying to get hydraulic fitting to match the 3rd function had to be ordered not sure how you could make sure the two match. But great product well built and would highly recommend to anyone.
Thanks
Kevin Makely EA RESPONSE: Thanks for the business. We always discuss hydraulic couplers with each customer, so if you let us know which size/series of coupler you have on your tractor, we'll be glad to send the matching ones on the grapple.

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