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Carl knows it. Brash = Brush. Military answer -

Grapples have their place, but so do winches. I might buy a little CAT 518 grapple and put a second winch on it. Stig, in my crews, everybody has to be capable of doing any of the tasks. I've always encouraged a spirit of co-operation, so fallers will help set chokers, and skidder / forwarder...

Your extraction guys using grapple skidders Stig?

That particular one is made by CAMOX of france, who used to be the Timberjack importer. A lot of timber is winch up very steep slopes to the tracks, so anchoring your machine well is essential.

grapple is great for lots of trees laid by a buncher, or single BIG stems. On the poplar we're cutting, the brand new JD 548 grapple skidder can only grab 2 12m lengths at a time, but could easily pull 6 or even 8 pieces. Which is possible with a double drum winch.

Not sure if this is worth doing, but I'm possibly looking for a Skidder. CAT, JD or TJ, something around the 240 / 380TJ. Thing is, I don't want a grapple skidder, I want a twin winch machine. (Pics of similar below) Not sure if that was even a thing in the US. Anyway, if anybody sees...