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Read articles →A family outing using a Precision MFG grapple rake on a John Deere 5075E to clear flood debris from crop fields before planting. Tim narrates his first-time learning curve with this specific grapple style, visibility challenges, counterweight limitations, and technique adjustments, while also explaining creek-bottom land management. Casual and conversational rather than instructional; most useful to someone curious how a large grapple performs on real field cleanup work, warts and all.
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Logs and limbs could damage farm equipment, including the disks on the planter and the combine used in fall, since they run over the debris.
He was using 870 pound and 842 pound weights, since his larger heavy hitch with hundred pound weights had not yet arrived, and he says it was not enough.
He learned not to tilt the grapple too far forward to pick things up, and later learned to hold it flatter so it could dig in a couple inches and push debris along.
It floods in winter, retains moisture well for good yields, but forms ditches and washouts that must be plugged and filled to keep the land accessible.
