Brush Grapple

I got kinda lucky with mine, a friend of mine works for an implement dealership and I asked him to keep his eyes open for a used one. He just laughed at me and told me that no one ever trades them in. About a week later he called me and a landscaping company had just traded one in for a different attachment. I drove down there loaded it up and came home, paid about a third the price of a new one...

I hope that helps and where to rent i would say your local bobcat dealership that is the best place that i have found. Jlmtractor

Did you think of an exavator with a thumb or is there a lot of travel to load it out ?

The town here loads it out onto dumptrucks with truck mounted grapple, a small one like for logs, on an old 1900 series international truck, probably the oldest in their fleet too, also use it like a grade-all for ditches. It looks like a real handy thing to own, might have to keep an eye on it when it is retired or sold at auction.

I was cleaning hedgrows yesterday and stacking the brush onto my bucket forks, I use a rope to cinch it so it does not roll off, cleaning those kind of areas makes a huge pile in no time, I can hand load and carry a big pile in reasonable time on the forks, makes it easy to stack if you can lay them out in one direction when cutting, one of those jobs everyone hates doing, all scratched up, gnats and no see ums out already.

I've had similar trouble finding attachments for equipment at rental houses to, rember it was hard to find a small dozer with a ripper, scarifier or root rake.

Take a look at the Asplundh website, they have all this forestry equipment, might give you some ideas and something to show the rental houses, thay alsos surplus equipment.