Rotating Grapple Forestry Attachment
Fecon offers a Rotating Front Grapple to fit your skid steers, compact track loaders and tracked carriers. Grapples are the perfect forestry attachment for tree care and landscaping applications.
The Front Grapple is perfect for brush and tree removal, and works as a skid steer log grapple for transporting, loading and placing logs and rocks. It offers a 60” opening, 360° rotation, and a load capacity of 9,000 lbs. It features a heavy-duty frame for long-term performance and heavily serrated contained plates to secure logs both perpendicular and parallel to the loader.
60” OPENING
360° ROTATION
IDEAL FOR MOVING LOGS, TREES, ROCKS & BRUSH
TIME-SAVING PLUG-N-GO INSTALLATION
CHROME PINS & HARDENED STEEL BUSHING
FECON STANDARD WARRANTY 12 MONTHS / 1,000 HRS
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Forestry - Rotating Grapple
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Forestry Attachments - Product Literature
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Which Rotating Grapple Fits Your Machine and Your Material
Skid Steers and Compact Track Loaders
This is the core fit. The FFG60LD light duty at 940 lbs and the FFG60HD heavy duty at 1,070 lbs both mount to full-size skid steers and compact track loaders, and both give you a 60 inch opening with full 360 degree rotation. As a skid steer log grapple the 60 inch jaw takes most logs and brush bundles in a single grab, and the heavily serrated contained plates hold logs both perpendicular and parallel to the loader so nothing rolls out mid lift. If your work is mostly heavy timber and long days, take the HD. If it is mixed cleanup on lighter machines, the LD saves you 130 lbs of the loader’s rated capacity.
Bobcat Carriers
The FFG60HD-BC is the heavy duty model configured specifically for Bobcat carriers. It carries the same 1,070 lb weight, the same 60 inch opening and the same 360 degree rotation as the standard HD, built around a Bobcat mount so it goes straight on without an adapter. If you run a Bobcat skid steer or compact track loader and want a bobcat log grapple that fits without modification, this is the model to ask for by name.
Mini Skid Steers and Compact Loaders
The FFG60 line is built for full-size machines. On a mini skid steer or a compact tool carrier a 940 lb attachment with a 60 inch jaw eats most of the machine’s rated operating capacity before you have picked anything up. For those carriers, look at the Red Line mini skid steer log grapple instead. It has a 57 inch opening, weighs 375 lbs and still gives you 360 degree rotation, so you keep the lifting capacity for the load.
What the Rotating Grapple Handles
A log grapple earns its keep on the loads a bucket or a set of forks cannot hold. The Fecon Rotating Grapple clamps around solid, uneven, heavy material and keeps hold of it while the machine moves, which is the difference between two trips and six.
Logs and timber are the main job. The 60 inch opening takes a bundle of smaller stems or a single large log, and the heavily serrated contained plates bite in and hold the load both perpendicular and parallel to the loader, so a round log does not roll out as you lift and swing. That grip is what makes it usable as a firewood grapple as well, where you are handling short irregular lengths that will not stack neatly in a bucket.
It is not limited to wood. As a rock grapple it lifts and places stone, and it is the tool for clearing rock out of a field or setting boulders on a landscape job. On tree removal work it doubles as a tree grapple, holding whole tree sections and brush during land clearing and site cleanup so the crew is not dragging material by hand. Logs and slash handling after a harvest is the same job at scale: grab, carry, stack, load.
Match the tool to the material as well as the machine. The Rotating Grapple is a clamping grapple built to grip solid, heavy, awkward loads. If most of what you are moving is loose brush, limbs and site debris, an open-tine design clears it faster because dirt and small material fall through the tines instead of riding along. For that work see the Red Line skid steer brush grapple on full-size machines, or the mini skid steer brush grapple on compact ones.
Four-item material list, as a bulleted Text module:
- Logs and timber: bundles or single large stems, held securely in either orientation
- Rock and stone: clearing fields and placing boulders without a second machine
- Trees and brush: whole sections during tree removal and land clearing
- Firewood and short lengths: irregular material a bucket cannot hold
Why 360 Degree Rotation Matters
A fixed grapple can only put a load down at the angle the machine is facing. That means repositioning the loader for every placement, and on a tight site with a trailer, a chipper and a stack all in different directions, that is most of your day spent driving rather than working.
Full 360 degree rotation removes that. As a rotating log grapple the head turns the load to the angle you want while the machine stays put, so you can pick a log off a pile at one angle and lay it square on a trailer at another without moving the carrier. Stacking is where it shows most: logs go down parallel and tidy instead of criss-crossed, which means a stack that holds and a load that travels. On rock and brush work the same rotation lets you drop material exactly where it needs to sit rather than roughly nearby. Combine that with chrome pins and hardened steel bushings at the pivot points and the rotation stays tight over the long run instead of developing the slop that makes older grapples imprecise.
Three-point list:
- Fewer machine moves: turn the load, not the loader
- Cleaner stacks and loads: place logs parallel and square, first time
- Built to stay tight: chrome pins and hardened steel bushings at the pivots
Not sure which model fits? Send us your machine’s make, model and rated operating capacity and we will confirm which FFG60 matches it.
Grapple
Frequently Asked Questions
It is a rotating front grapple for skid steers and tracked carriers, aimed at tree care and landscaping applications. It handles brush and tree removal and works well for transporting, loading and placing logs and rocks.
60 inches across all three models. That opening covers most log and brush handling on tree care and land clearing sites without needing a second, larger machine on site.
Yes, a full 360 degrees. That lets an operator pick up and place material at any angle, which matters when you are loading a trailer or stacking logs and cannot always line the machine up squarely with the load.
9,000 lbs. It uses a heavy duty frame built for long term performance, plus heavily serrated contained plates that secure logs both perpendicular and parallel to the loader so the load does not roll out mid lift.
Three. The FFG60LD light duty weighs 940 lbs. The FFG60HD heavy duty weighs 1,070 lbs. The FFG60HD-BC is a heavy duty version configured for Bobcat carriers and also weighs 1,070 lbs.
Fecon designs it for time saving plug and go installation, so you are not spending the morning fitting it before work starts. Chrome pins and hardened steel bushings at the pivot points keep wear down over the long run.
The Fecon standard warranty of 12 months or 1,000 hours applies, the same as the rest of the Fecon forestry attachment range.
Start with your machine’s rated operating capacity, not the grapple’s opening. The FFG60LD weighs 940 lbs and the FFG60HD and FFG60HD-BC weigh 1,070 lbs, and that weight comes straight off what your loader can still lift. On a full-size skid steer or compact track loader all three are comfortable. On a smaller machine the lighter LD leaves you 130 more lbs of usable capacity. The 60 inch opening is the same across all three, so you are not choosing between them on jaw size, you are choosing on duty rating and on whether you need the Bobcat mount. If your carrier is a mini skid steer or a compact tool carrier, none of the FFG60 models is the right answer and you should be looking at the mini skid steer log grapple instead.
For the Fecon Rotating Grapple the published load capacity is 9,000 lbs. In practice the limiting number is usually your machine rather than the attachment: a skid steer’s rated operating capacity has to carry the weight of the grapple itself before it carries any of the load, so a 1,070 lb attachment on a machine rated at 2,000 lbs leaves you well under a thousand pounds of actual payload at full reach. Always check your carrier’s rating and remember that reach reduces it. The published load capacity for the Rotating Grapple line is 9,000 lbs.
It is the jaw design, and it decides what each one is good at. A log grapple like the Rotating Grapple uses closed, heavily serrated contained plates that clamp around solid material and hold it under pressure. That is what you want for logs, timber, rock and whole tree sections, where the load is heavy and would roll or slip out of anything looser. A brush grapple uses an open-tine design, so dirt and small debris fall straight through the tines while you carry the brush, which means you haul material instead of soil. If you are mostly handling logs and rock, take the rotating log grapple. If you are mostly clearing loose brush, limbs and site debris, take the Red Line brush grapple. Crews doing both often run one of each.
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