Gripper hitch

[AHPP]

You can buy a tilt hitch. You can buy a rotator hitch. But can you buy a gripper hitch?

 

[CPS]

You can buy a tilt hitch. You can buy a rotator hitch. But can you buy a gripper hitch?

Yes

 

[AHPP]

Who makes them? Drew a blank on Google last night.

 

[JerryRtilt]

Is this what your looking for ?

 

[AHPP]

I meant gripper only but nevertheless interesting.

 

[Furniss]

Its an endlessly useful tool a gripper but without the ability to spin it it would be hard to see what your doing half the time i would of thought ..

 

[AHPP]

Do a bit of gripping (with gripper facing away) and report back please.

 

[Furniss]

Do a bit of gripping (with gripper facing away) and report back please.

Tried today and its v compromised - hard to see and what you want to pick up is never really square to the hitch and if you do pick something up with it facing away then you nearly always want to position it before putting down which involves spinning it and often tilting to generate the desired angle, tbh I don't think it would be worth the cost and bulk if it didn't tilt n spin.
I spent a few years with tilt bucket and seriously considered tilt hitch but like nearly everyone else says after the event I wish I had put a tilty on my main machine years ago, its absolutely brilliant on the 6t - saves hours a day.

 

[AHPP]

Cheers. That’ll be why they’re barely available then.

 

[Furniss]

Cheers. That’ll be why they’re barely available then.

Be interested to hear what other people think that have used grippers with tilty....
but its hard to pull the pin on a halfway house.

 

[AHPP]

My thinking (idle musing at this point, don't even own a digger, thinking ahead to buying as intelligently as possible in the next year or two) was along these lines. S30 size machine. You can tilt and rotate on a tiltrotator but you can't grip until you go to S40. So an S30 gripper hitch is by itself a bit more utility than a plain hitch for barely more build height. Get going with that and then when you find a tiltrotator, you put it on underneath and have grip, tilt and rotate on S30.

 

[Stroppymonkey]

My thinking (idle musing at this point, don't even own a digger, thinking ahead to buying as intelligently as possible in the next year or two) was along these lines. S30 size machine. You can tilt and rotate on a tiltrotator but you can't grip until you go to S40. So an S30 gripper hitch is by itself a bit more utility than a plain hitch for barely more build height. Get going with that and then when you find a tiltrotator, you put it on underneath and have grip, tilt and rotate on S30.

Makes more sense now.

 

[doobin]

My thinking (idle musing at this point, don't even own a digger, thinking ahead to buying as intelligently as possible in the next year or two) was along these lines. S30 size machine. You can tilt and rotate on a tiltrotator but you can't grip until you go to S40. So an S30 gripper hitch is by itself a bit more utility than a plain hitch for barely more build height. Get going with that and then when you find a tiltrotator, you put it on underneath and have grip, tilt and rotate on S30.

Have you got a cost for an S30 gripper hitch compared to an S30 hitch from @CPS or even a genuine Engcon one?

I'll bet you could buy a grab with the difference, which would be far more versatile.

 

[AHPP]

No and I suspect therein lies the rub.

 

[CPS]

We can supply a gripper hitch that picks up standard buckets. but I wouldn't advise going that route. Grippers need Tilt and rotate. anything else would basically be a 1/3 of the way there, not even half way

 

[AHPP]

OK. I'm classing it as probably a dead end but how much for argument's sake? Pins on top, S30 underneath, hydraulic or manual.

 

[DaveDCB]

Just get a grab