Clamp, Lift, and Conquer — Why the skid steer grapple fork Is the Smartest Upgrade for Every CAT, Bobcat, and Kubota Fleet

If you run compact loaders for a living, you already know the truth: the real money isn’t in pushing dirt, it’s in grabbing, moving, and stacking the messy, odd-shaped stuff a plain bucket can’t control. Loose brush, twisted rebar, half-crushed cardboard, wet compost, rag bales, busted concrete, wind-dropped limbs — they all devour crew hours when you don’t have the right attachment. That’s exactly why Sibom engineered its skid steer grapple fork line, a family of forged-steel jaws that transform every CAT 262, Bobcat T770, and Kubota SVL series machine into an unstoppable, material-handling profit center.

A Fork That Works Like a Clamshell, Built on Sibom Steel

The backbone of every Sibom skid steer grapple attachment is a fully welded, loader-width frame milled from high-strength plate. We skip the stitch welds and angle iron you see in bargain imports; instead, we flame-cut one-piece side cheeks, box them with cross tubes, and tie the entire grid into an over-size torque beam. That skeleton carries a matched pair of cushioned cylinders, turning the tool into a dual cylinder grapple fork that squeezes with identical pressure on both wings even when the load is off-center. The geometry is balanced, the pivots are overbuilt, and the grease channels are easy to reach, giving you a long service life grapple that works all season without a downtime surprise.

Because the grapple arm profile perfectly shadows the tine rake, the jaws wrap tighter around fragile pallets, slippery logs, or lumpy demolition chunks. The result is a strong clamping grapple that drives across rutted ground without dropping half the load at every rut.

One Frame, Infinite Payloads

Construction, Demolition, and Site Cleanup

Rip out asphalt and instantly toss the slabs into a hopper with the rock grapple attachment, then switch to rebar and roofing with the same clamp. When the slab is gone, use the construction grapple fork to sort 2×4 cut-offs from broken block. Need to clear the slab at day’s end? The demolition grapple fork jaws lock down on concrete and fly ash alike, leaving the site broom-ready in record time.

Recycling and Waste Handling

Dumpsters full of sheet stock shift like sand on forks. The Sibom recycling grapple fork sports serrated tips that bite hard into pallets of compressed plastic, while the open-floor tines let fines drop through—perfect for a scrap yard grapple fork humping tangled rebar piles or a metal scrap grapple feeding a shear. Cardboard packs? The cardboard bale grapple pad kit clamps delicate bundles without crushing edges. Textile plants bolt on fabric cushions and run a rag handling grapple that never snags.

Agriculture, Forestry, and Landscape

On the farm, hay bales don’t stay square forever; that’s why ranchers order the hay grapple fork cradle to haul out silage, then flip to the mulch grapple attachment for bedding straw. A forestry grapple fork with bolt-on teeth hugs cedar limbs, while loggers choose the timber grapple attachment with extended tines for full-length pine. Landscapers love a clean, stone-specific version: the stone grapple fork lifts armor rock and statuary without scratching polished faces.

Municipal and Residential

Town crews clear curbs with a brush grapple fork, pack park-way branches with a tree limb grapple, then strip fallen leaves off ditches with the same skeleton set as a yard cleanup grapple. The switch takes seconds: pop two cotter pins, swap limit blocks, and you own a brand-new tool without hauling another attachment trailer into tight cul-de-sacs.

Self-Cleaning, Self-Sorting, Self-Saving

Fouled tines kill productivity. Sibom solves the problem with a skeleton grapple fork pattern. Each tine carries a slotted core so fines, mud, and snow shake loose the moment you lift. No more brick-hard build-up under the clamp lip, no more employees prying with wrecking bars after a long shift. The open grid also functions as a debris pass-through grapple, letting you scoop oversize river rock while the water-soaked silt and pea gravel fall away. That makes the tool as much a sorting grapple attachment as a transport arm—critical on reclamation sites where you pay by the ton to haul out scrap.

Adjustable, Adaptable, Operator-Friendly

Sibom engineers spent as much time on the user interface as the steel. A sliding sleeve design gives you adjustable tine spacing grapple chops: run narrow gap grapple fork spacing to spear shipping crates without busting wood, then widen for brush bundles in five minutes. Clamp angle is cushioned by an end-of-stroke bushing, protecting cylinder rods when an inexperienced operator slams the lever. Visibility cut-outs keep the tine tips in view from the cab, and every grease zerk faces forward so you don’t crawl under a mud-coated frame.

Hook-up stays frictionless: ISO plate, flat-face ports, color-coded hoses. It works as a quick-attach grapple fork on the newest CAT Smart Attachment mounts or the same on a decade-old Bobcat S590. Kubota’s compact line? Plug, play, lift—no separate electrical harness, no case drain headache.

Safety and Durability by Default

You can’t profit if you’re parked in the shop, so we spec:

• Reinforced steel grapple arms cut from 80-ksi plate

• Welded frame grapple fork corners with inside fish-plates

• Dust seals and spiral grooves at every pivot give you a truly low maintenance grapple life cycle

• Cylinders protected behind boxed guards, hoses routed away from pinch

On the human side, a smart check valve locks pressure if a hose blows, making it a safety grapple attachment that won’t surprise ground labor. Serrated steps on both arms work as built-in ladders for quick cab exit—another Sibom design cue from real job-site feedback.

More Volume Moved, Less Labor Burned

A straight bucket moves only what fits between sidewalls. The Sibom multi-purpose grapple fork moves bulk because the clamp tops it off, converting wasted headspace into revenue material each pass. In third-party trials, operators lifted 30 percent more brush per trip compared with a bucket of similar weight. Scrap yards tracked 40 percent fewer drops from clamp slip. And landscape installers shaved whole days off mulch delivery because the open tines grapple turned one loader into a shovel-and-clamp Goliath. All that uptime equals real dollars and a measurable productivity grapple fork bump on any KPI sheet.

Cost-Effective Enough for Pros, Easy Enough for Homeowners

Contractors load it on the bid-day trailer because it handles plug-and-play across multiple CAT, Bobcat, and Kubota units. Rental fleets stock it because weekend warriors can clamp debris with no prior experience. Municipalities choose it because a single attachment covers brush pickup, street sweeping roll-off loading, and snow debris stack organization. Farmers love it because bales, manure, and scrap fencing finally lift without chain rigging. Whatever your fleet mix, spending once on a Sibom cost effective grapple fork replaces three niche tools—and everything stores on one rack.

Ready to Grab Profit?

Pick standard, wide, or high-capacity frame. Add polished tips for masonry, serrated tips for forestry, or bolt-on bale cradles for hay season. Every order ships powder-coated Sibom yellow, hydraulically pressure-checked, and pinned for immediate work. The boxed crate lands, you unlock the forks, snap the latches, and the attachment is making you money inside ten minutes.

Clamp your next log. Lift your next bale. Sort your next pile of recyclable. Do it with the heavy-duty grapple fork that marries brute strength to operator finesse. Do it with Sibom—and let your CAT, Bobcat, or Kubota skid steer inherit the grip it always needed.