PULLERBEAR PRO XL review
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2016
- The Pullerbear brush puller works great. The company makes several different models, this one being their biggest. It's handy and easy to use, weighing in at 17 lbs. I use it mainly to pull out buckthorn growing on my property. In the video I'm using it on my lot-line, where I have mature red pine and Norwegian spruce trees growing. The problem I did sometimes have was with the roots of those trees growing into the root ball of the brush. But a little hatchet work helped out with that.
Over all I am quite pleased with the Pullerbear, thinking of maybe getting one of the smaller units for keeping the area cleaned up before the brush gets so big and and overwhelming.
www.pullerbear.com/
Great video Mark... much appreciated. One tip I would like to share with you and your viewers... If you step on the jaw of the Pullerbear once you've placed it around the stem and push the handle away, this will give you a bite at near ground level and more room for the handle to travel before it meets the ground. Then without releasing the Pullerbear, use it to tug the plant completely out of the ground. The Pullerbear won't release it's prey until you push the handle forward. We use the Pullerbear to drag the plants to our pile when they are thorny and difficult to handle. Thanks again.
It works!
Just beatiful thank you for sharing like the tool your hard work paid off oceans of love from Florida
Thank you for the nice comment.
Thanks for the detailed review and demonstration. I'm curious what the largest diameter buckthorn is that you've pulled with this. Also, if you were buying it now, would you get the same size, or perhaps step down a size for the size of buckthorn you are pulling? I'm wrestling with the trade off of better pulling leverage vs a lighter weight to carry in the woods (some of my work will be well away from my house, and on other properties far from where I can drive)
2" is probably the biggest that I used it on so far. I did buy the Cub XL in the fall thinking it will be easier to use on smaller buckthorn and brush. But, yes, I would go with the same one just to be sure that I was able to do what I wanted. The Pro XL and the Pro XL 321 are the same weight but it looks like the XL has a different angle to the handle. Probably to give it a little better leverage.
The Cub XL doesn't have holes drilled in the foot pad to allow for putting on a board to keep it from sinking into soft ground. Also with the shorter handle you don't have as good of leverage.
The Grip XL would probably do the job for you, the handle is a little shorter so the leverage might suffer. But it is 4 lbs lighter. 17lbs for the Pro doesn't sound like a lot of weight but once you start lugging it around, it does start to feel heavier. But I am almost 70 now, so a lot of things feel heavier than they used to;>)
Well I hope this helps out with your decision. I'd still go with one of the Pro Xls if I had brush in the 1.5 to 2" range to pull out.
I saw one review elsewhere that they had a problem with the sliding part of the gripper getting bent when they were leaning on it to pull 2"+ saplings. They said it wouldn't slide properly after that. Have you had any problems with that?
Haven't pulled many saplings much over 2". Perhaps they twisted it to the side as they pulled instead of just straight down and to the back. I have had a few saplings that were hard to get all the way out, partly due to other tree roots being in the way. They other thing is that sometimes the fulcrum (section that sits on the ground) would be right on a major part of the root system and would kind of pin it down, making it a little harder to get the brush free from the ground. And I do keep a hatchet close by just in case I need to cut an extra stubborn root.
@@wisgardener I have used it to pull buckthorn trunks up to about 3 inches. That usually required two people: one to leverage the roots out and a second to cut them. It also helps to trim off the thorny branches, leaving only the trunk, so that you don't get a face full of thorns as the tree comes out.
Si funciona muy bien este herramienta.
a $50 farm jack and a chain works just as well. Another advantage to a farm jack is you can pull up much bigger than 3 inches.
You are right as far as pulling power goes. But when you have as much as I wanted to pull out this was a lot faster. On these smaller plants it is hard to get a chain to take a good hold on the trunks and not slip. Never had a need for a farm jack but did have one of the old car bumper jacks ( before they started putting in the scissor jacks) that resembled the farm jack. Used that a lot of times with a chain to pull out T-posts and other stuff stuck in the ground. Don't know if I still have one, have to check around in my shed. But for pulling out small stumps and trees, maybe I'll have to get me a farm jack some day.
Well, there is a balance issue when using a farm jack.
Exactly. Farm jacks have balance issues (it keeps wanting to fall over) and weight issue (it'll wear you out dragging it around and setting it up for as many trees as a line like the WisGardener had) and bite issue (like he said, chains don't want to grip small trees) and slippage issue with the jack itself (when it leans too far, the jacking mechanism falls down) and number-of-workers issue (since it wants to fall over, it takes someone to hold it in place while you connect it to the tree/bush, so no doing this by yourself) and bending issue (no kicking the chain into place around the bush stem) and wear-you-out issue (besides bending so much, you gotta' jack that jack handle a LOT more than just pulling down once) and some more I'm not remembering because I've tried to forget on purpose HOW MUCH USING THE FARM JACK SUCKED.
@@Liberal.Linda. I use mine the other day just fine. You do know that you can easily brace the jack right? Certainly much cheaper and better than paying out $139.99 for something that has limited use.
btw, you can buy a v hook that can go on the end that gets a bite on the smaller tree and pull it out that way as well instead of a chain.
I used Weed Wrenches here on the central California coast since 1993. Of course any weed-pulling tool is a lot better than none.
I now use "Extractigators" -- several clever design features make them much more efficient. Highly recommended.
Thanks for the info. The main thing I would like to be better with the Pullerbear is the leverage. It would be nice to not have to push it all the way to the ground on some brush.
Extractigators can't grip anything less than 6" above the ground (the sapling has to stick up at least that far) and they also don't "hang on" to let you use the tool to drag out the tree after you've pulled it.
Классная идея! Спасибо за ролик!
Спасибо за комментарий и просмотр!
Where can I buy one?
www.pullerbear.com/
Please support your back
I'm going to pull hundreds of trees by hand! Cut all the trees flush to ground with loppers, treat stump and done. You could cut all in a weeknend but do a follow up video. Bet it ain't done with that heavy tool and physical energy required
Huh? Are you saying it takes too much energy to use this tool to treat a large area?
I have the weed wrench, looks like mine works better. You ran out of leverage at the end of the pull. May have to get this though, I want a small and the weed wrench quit making them because of a government protest. Soooo glad I have my large weed wrench.
Leverage was kind of a problem for me. The pullerbear people said that I wasn't getting the jaw down low enough to the roots, I was up to high on the trunk sometimes. (This video is posted on their website). The 2x4 I used on the base is also too thick, I think. Probably change that out to a piece of plywood as per the recommendation on their website.
I'm not an engineer or I would try to make a better design. If it could be designed to open the jaw all the way without having to push the lever so far forward it would be a lot easier to use. As it is, if your working in heavy brush, it gets in your way when operating the lever.
But that being said, I still like it and even bought one of the smaller models. I think they are sturdy and well built.
Wis.Gardener hey, I just bought the "Uprooter" small. The guy worked for weed wrench and kinda designed a few changes to be legal. Looks pretty similar and so excited to find it. I'll let you know how they compare. So sad for everyone that can't get a weed wrench anymore. If the design is close to the weed wrench, I'm gonna buy one in every size in case this guy stops making them, in protest of the government
@@bigtexuntex7825 Just checked out the 321. Wished they would have had that when I bought mine. Definitely looks like a better design. Thanks for the comment. Mark
Uh...no.