Anbo Manufacturing

Did you notice that CTOA was down for a couple of days? Appears that a lot of recent posts were lost.

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I did notice that. What happened Hal?  On another note I found this on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/202401092669?ViewItem=&item=202401092669

Made here and about the same price as a Titan grapple that bolts to your existing bucket. I’m also looking to order this: https://www.ebay.com/i/113104088700?rt=nc&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D20160908110712%26meid%3D1b9bc700c1c84875ac356bd6d981bc43%26pid%3D100677%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D16%26sd%3D273084587002%26itm%3D113104088700

I can get this in 1/4″ too to save weight. Cut the ears off the old bucket and weld to the adapters for the loader, weld the other plate to the old bucket and buy the grapple bucket, now I already have two attachments with the Quick attach setup. By the way, my house burned to the ground on the 7th, in about 5 minutes while I was at work. My wife and a friend visiting, and our daughter were home and all got out OK. Lost a lot of old cars too, will post pics. That’s why I need the grapple.

Nothing. Four emails, one phone message left. Nada. This from a place that has sent me at least 50 emails in the past trying to sell me attachments. There’s a place in North Carolina that makes really nice ones but they said they were 4 months behind. And that was before the hurricane.

Here’s the link: https://www.everythingattachments.com/Default.asp    Don’t know about the wildfire situation in Washington, Bob could fill you in. With the house fire I find myself opening three hours earlier just to get out of the motel.

I’m looking to get a 5th wheel to put on the property, the rental market here is non existent, especially if you have pets. This @#$&@ place has turned into Aspen west. When I moved here there were 3000 people in town. Now 30,000. You could buy a house in town for 40,000, 50,000 in Bend  Now? 280,000 in Redmond, 460,000 average in Bendover! :wacko:

Off topic but… Can Anyone read this micro sized type without reading glasses?????

Here’s the one I was looking at: https://www.everythingattachments.com/Compact-Tractor-Wicked-Root-Grapple-50-Single-lid-p/eta-cut-sl-rg-50.htm

Only problem is I need one now, not 3 months from now. :negative:

The  problem with the Titan and another one simular I looked at is the extra 170 pounds of weight, as well as the design and quality of the of the grapple itself. These Jinmas are pretty lightweight when it comes to loader capacity. Add in the weight of a quik tach bracket and a 450 lb grapple and now we’re already well over half capacity.

I just received a response  from Anbo myself, 20 days after contacting them. Kinda proud of their products, their small grapple is 1/3 of what I paid for the tractor :scratch:  If I were using it every day to make money with it I could justify the price I suppose, but then I’d probably have a JD or a Kubota to put it on.

I know I said I’d post some pics, and here’s one looking from the garage. I have lots of pictures, I just decided I don’t like looking at them.

Her’s some pictures from this past week. I cut a driveway out to the street that meets up with the existing one making it circular. A 5th wheel’s going where the gravel isn’t graded yet, hopefully Monday. All the firewood was where the 5th wheel’s going, of course :yes: Two months in a motel is two too many. As if the fire wasn’t enough, my wife’s MS reared it’s ugly head when she fell in the motel room and landed on a small, sharp, hard plastic trash can. Broke 2 ribs and lacerated her liver. Two weeks in the main hospital and Three weeks and counting in a recovery hospital. And all 23 of the damned chickens survived so I have to look at the place every morning anyway, might as well live here in the 5th wheel where I can work on clean up when I’m not at the store.

A few pictures of the tractor. The fire department worked hard to save it, I didn’t ask them to, one or more must have been farm boys that couldn’t watch it burn, because everything else within 75 yards around it was gone :scratch: Everything plastic melted. Tail lamps, seat, gearshift, gauges and switches, headlight. luckily the loader hoses didn’t, melt just the wrap around them. Sandblasted the rim and primed it White, repainted the cowl while everything was out of it. Changed out the steering wheel too, got a fancy new seat from Northern Tool to put on after the rear gets new paint. Doing the hood now, then the ROPS and burned up rear fender.While all that’s off the back I’ll repaint the floor and rear end black and it will be new again. (at least the gauges say it only has a few hours on it now!)

The hood just had blisters at the front, and fading paint. But these hoods are what we call in the bodyman trade “A sack of walnuts”. Horrible fiberglass work, I’ve been wanting to redo this hood since I bought the tractor in early 08. All I’ve done so far is run a mudhog across it to reveal the highs and lows, about 5 hours of work should get it ready to prime and paint.

If you look close at that picture of the tractor with the burned tire, look at the left rear tail lamp, it’s dripping down and landed on the left rear tire, like a Salvador Dali painting. It’s still there, both colors, between the lugs. :wacko:  On a much better note, here’s yesterday’s work, almost ready for the 5th wheel that’s showing up later today. Better still, Marianne’s being released from the hospital today! :yahoo:  As you can see, we’re working on a small front yard to put a BBQ out in so as to not fill the trailer with grease when doing chicken or ribs. I’m going to fence an area around 40′ x 50′ too so the dog has somewhere to stay besides his dog run or the trailer during the day. The shipping container’s one side of the fence so only three sides to go :whistle: That’s our Daughter in the first pic, dang she’s getting big, started High School this year :heart: