Stan! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS GRAPPLE! This thing is going to take over production! It's cool, that this company is listening to the people who use these machines, day in and day out! Tap yourself on the back for this one!

That Spence seems like a cool cat! That fab shop brings back memories. Diggin the video - Great job Monkey Force.

This was your best video yet. Seeing a concept design put into action. Watching the excellent skills of some hard working Americans. Hope you have follow ups to this.

Love watching skilled trades. Welding and fabrication is awesome to watch when done right. Rarely is the prototype the final product. Need to use it in the field to find other improvements.

Surprised no one thought remote mount the grease fitting like they do on big equipment. Also needs a D ring or lifting point for trailer removal.

That was the best field trip ever and I never left my seat!

Spence did a fantastic job in spite of Stans help. WAY TO SPENCE.

That new design would be great for brush and logs clearing out woods areas , especially if your making a driveway through woods

The sheer fact that your fabricating the Dirt Monkey Claw will give you a much deeper understanding on how fabrication with any type of equipment affects its durability, and maintenance issues down the track. Still love your Vid work. Aussie Jeff

It looks pretty good! On 2.0 I would suggest altering the angle of the pistons so it can open up to a solid 90 degrees. Should make picking up more stuff a little easier

Hey Stan! Thanks for making awesome, educational content! Tomorrow I start a full time position at the biggest local landscape, lawn care company! I owe it to you and Brian from Brian's Lawm Maintenance for getting me into this career! Stay safe out there, and thanks!

Finally someone else who is called OLAF like my snowman from frozen :-) Stan on those forks what you need to do is to use a bucket tooth from CAT 7T3403 Bucket Tooth Those you can exchange out and you can keep working. For the hoses the solution is simple. Calculate the length movement of the hose and 2/3 goes into a steel coil spring. This way it's up and out of the way but when you fold the steel coil spring will bent and flex with the move of the bucket but straighten back out when it retracts. On top the steel of the coil spring will protect it from any damage.

The “ Dirt Monkey “ brand of skid steer attachments......that is awesome Stan......

There is something so satisfying about watching this. Seeing the plan come together from start to finish and making final improvements. My Pops always said when designing, be prepared for at least 3 revisions.

Stan, you did a great job with Spence's expertise!

I used to put together Bobcat buckets at National Manufacturing here in Valley City back in 2001 I do not miss being in a building welding all day!

You asked for more ideas on attachments - as tree and land clearing company I would love to see a tree shear that can operate both vertically and horizontally. That way you can cut the tree down, then use the machine like a processor to buck it up without having to leave the cab. Having the ability to rotate 90 degrees would also make it practical for cutting roots and removing stumps. The other benefit I can see from this would be you could also use it to skid out the trees you remove.

A1 fantastic FAB of this implement...from the steel selection for the use/abuse of heavy equipment to the pulsed-MIG welding process for heavy plate welding. Good job welding Stan...but you need to cut that wire stick out back a lot lol!

Imagine being such a valuable customer that you can walk into their shop and direct the custom fabrication of your dream tool.

I’m a dirt contractor and fabricator, so this vid was perfect! Loved the design of the grapple and the obvious quality build materials and welding done by CMP!

Guess we can call Stan Sparky now? Great to watch!! Thanks.

Love the content today Stan! Awesome seeing the process from concept through fabrication to field testing. Great!

Love seeing new equipment being built. Fun video.

That was a great way to de-Spence the work load to Stan for grinding and boring tasks.

Stan, you may see yourself as a boring person, but others think of you as a holy one! Seriously great video! Reminds me of the days I worked in a tool crib of a small manufacturing company in lower Michigan.

American Ingenuity at its finest. After field testing in different environs and under varying circumstances you should be able to finalize a great end product. Zerks access must be easy to get to or you know what’ll happen. Great Idea for sure.

Pretty neat attachment Stan, and I really liked the actual design and fabrication, another thing that I love, Thanks!

Quit my welding job 3 weeks ago and this video is making me miss that place already, left cause boss pays and does 1099 on us, came out and tried to rush me too many times lol, and pay was basically minimum wage one I did my own taxes, hope to find another welding job soon

Love the "Dirt Monkey" attachment!!! I would add a few D rings for hooking it up on the trailer, this way it's faster and safer. And maybe add a lifting point on it.

Smart move you should start making your own equipment brand!

As a Mechanical Design Engineer based in MN, who used to work landscaping during the summers, this video is right up my alley! Very cool prototype.

Awesome video👍 These are the people that make America Great ! Keep up the great work boys👍👍👍

Love watching the fab work! A nice change of pace and a great call on the AR plate.

Wow. This kind of stuff is what makes America great! I love it!!!!

I’m happy to see companies like this one, keeping manufacturing alive in the US.

I think it is so cool that you found a manufacturer that would take an Idea of yours and bring it to like. Awesome going Stan.

I like how transparent and willing to let you get in and get your hands dirty on this fab and build with this company. They really seem to invest in their people and not treat them like a number

I prefer Parker fittings and hoses. If you have enough slack I can replace a fitting with our air operated portable crimper. A must have for remote location work.

Awesome design! The Monkey Claw will take the industry by storm!

That is a pretty cool design... the bottom big flat area and the teeth that sink past to grab items. That thing is cool as hell.

Awesome build. Looks and works great. Great design and workmanship. Thank you for sharing.

Great video loved the design to assembly and testing. Watching it put together was excellent. Thank you for showing how it’s done. 👍

Thought I was on Andrew Camarata's channel for a sec! lol Good job all around for a prototype!

Great idea/ design, curious to see what 2.0 will look like/ do, I agree with Helena about the 90 deg opening though, and the other idea's you guys came up with I like the gaurd functioning as a step. we almost never use our grapple bucket, we do most of our breaking with a hoe, then load the skid steer bucket with it. thanks for a great vid Stan.

Wow Stan. What a kick A## tool to be able to design and have great input into the final product. Much less have it named “Monkey Claw”. I could see many types of contractors and tradesmen wanting such an attachment.

That was AWESOME Stan!! Can't wait to see it working in the field. Won't take too many tweaks to get her dialed in for the 2.0.

That's gonna be a bad ass attachment! Monkey or "Money" Claw! Should be able to knock out those jobs quick and efficiently. Awesome!

Talk about a great partnership from a business perspective. Both companies benefit from each other.

Very cool. We shared this video in our homemade tools forum this week :)

Great job showing how to start prototype going from drawing to finish product and all the tweaking that goes with it

Stan looks like you and the manufacturer came up with a great design I use a stump bucket with a grapple made by wildcat only problem with it is the grapple not long doesn’t reach end of bucket otherwise it’s a great tool for feeding my 18” capacity bandit chipper

That was a great video. Can't wait to see it in action as time goes on.

Love the fabrication of the proto type. Awesome video!

I really enjoyed watching as you assist in the fabrication of this new piece of engineering and your description as it unfolds. I am a new subscriber to your channel and based on what I have watched so far, you should have 5 million subscribers. You probably have heard it before, but your ability to communicate is amazing in telling your story for example. Stan thank goodness this medium allows us the privilege to hear from you.

What a cool idea! Never thought of the value of a 2 grappled claw being more useful, thought it would have been more of a pain than a single. Crazy! Keep up the good work! *MONKEY TIME!*

SUPER ENJOY watching fab vids and seeing machine shops and “shops” in general. ITS DEFINITELY NOT A “BORING” time for me. Keep them up and do some more👍🏻 Also, think awesome able to design a new tool and have it put in production that can be “custom” per customer’s needs. Nice ✌🏻

I worked for a company 30 years ago that built something similar for digging railroad ties. It didn't have top clamp. 2 super heavy forks, we had a 12 inch dozer blade at rear bottom of forks so we could dig ties at angle and when full backup, put blade down build flat spot for ties to set on edge. When ties all gone. Logging truck with short bunks came by and load ties. We cleared 180 miles of track.

Way to go got your brand out there love it

Great video man! Love these type of videos in the shop showing us!!! Keep it up!!

So neat that you have access to designing such useful and neat tools 👍🏻👍🏼

That’s another quality product from these guys. Excellent work and thanks for sharing this with us take care and Hope everyone has a nice week

Awesome they let you be there while building it. I’ve seen victory services (concrete mob) using the single claw one, does a good job picking up concrete slabs.

Awesome video, Stan! I love seeing how things like this are built. The Monkey Claw looks bulletproof! Can't wait to see videos of it in real use applications on the jobsite. The CMP folks have a first class operation there.

I'm a welder. That project looks fun and challenging. Also I volunteer and teach welding at a local welding school near me . What I can tell from the video for not doing it for 35 years look pretty damn good. Keep up the good work and the good videos 👍🤘👨‍🏭

Stan gets to go build a custom one of prototype that they are thinking about putting into production. I’ve been eating 4 1/2 weeks for my hydro bucket and just got an email about a delay. Lol. Says how much pull he has from the many many years of being a true leader and master in this field.

You did a good job on the start of the video

Looks awesome Stan! Going to be a awesome tool!

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Hi Stan love the new piece of equipment you help design, you are in that field, so you know what to build to make your jobs much easier.

Stan, this fab shop build of that claw-grab is one of yur best videos! Show more of it on-the-job. Gotta see how it performs. Much enjoyed this video. Also what a well equipped & clean shop! Very nice!👍👍

Awesome you are able to take things you deal with in the field and improve! Production = $

Great video love the way this came together

Great video Stan love seeing stuff welded especially attachments 👍👍👍👍👍

That fab company is bloody fantastic they listern to the customer .great video really enjoyed it keep them coming again well done to that fab company thats the type of people you need could they come to the uk and show atefab shops how to look after ther customers

Looks suspiciously like a beak welded to a beak. 🧐 Awesome attachment !!!

why not make the lower deck front "teeth" removeable like the teeth on an excavator bucket ? easy way to modify the design and keep it from wearing too bad, neat design !

Awesome video! That seems like a good design for guys like you with pool jobs

Pretty darn cool. Version one is a beast but I am willing to bet you will have a few tweaks and upgrades to come. But awesome right out of the gate.

This was GREAT video. I liked the fact that you designed and helped manufactured the system.

Aw snap Stan has a new toy!

Great piece of kit. Keep up the good work

I love watching artists of all disciplines!

To me it’s obvious Spencer handed you all the intern jobs, the boring time consuming tasks like grinding like the “dirty work”😂😉

It's literally amazing the level of innovation and information on the channel. This is the level of success you can have when you pay attention to detail and go above and beyond what the job call for.

That really grabbed me, nothing boring about it!🤠

Like your thinking outside the box. Your idea are phenomenal. Like you're videos.

Will be interested to see how this does over time. I've used a Beak for several years now, mainly for flatwork tear-out/replace. I can't say enough about it, I was hooked the minute I saw the design. The only thing I can see about the wider configuration and double-grapple would in fact be doing tear-out; I would rather have a twin-fork setup with a single grapple to exert a greater force on a smaller area breaking stuff apart. If you move up to a bigger CTL or skid to achieve greater breakout pressures, then you probably break off bigger pieces, which can cause problems loading/unloading in the dump truck, as well as more wear and tear on the box. If you've gotta break apart the bigger pieces before loading, then it becomes a time/cost efficiency thing. I don't do near the general demo work that you do, so understand why you went to a bigger platform. For my purposes, it's hard to beat Daniels' design - I make good coin with it every time I hook it up.

Awesome, can't wait to see final version!

Great video getting off the job site and bringing us into a shop like this is a nice change, great job as usual God bless

Great video, I love metal fabrication and did the computer thing for 25 years. Workers going without ear protection ... not good. They will get tinnitus and it's pure torture.

Beautiful job..... Nice piece of equipment. Thank you for sharing. God Bless you too...

i can tell just by the sound and stuff spence is a great welder with wirefeed, almost a spray arc but now quite, great job spence

That was really cool. Your videos are fun and educational. I would like to see a video that you tell us your story...how you got started and learned all this. Your videos leave me in awe! Thanks for sharing! 😊

Just a few laid-back workers. Very cool

Those guys are really good at their craft!!! Beautiful hand made machinery.

Spence is one hell of a fabricator. Awsome to watch him work

Your videos are the best

More designs Stan, awesome vid.. n Spence u killed it bro, hope Stan will have you on another build vid.. good to make a series.

Great video, thanks for sharing!

What a great idea!…love your channel…