Compare abrasion resistance, toughness, useful weight, and long-term durability in grapple steel.
Mild steel is inexpensive and easy to form, but it wears and deforms sooner in demanding material handling. AR400F delivers a stronger balance of wear resistance and impact toughness.
What matters most
Mild steel is inexpensive and easy to form, but it wears and deforms sooner in demanding material handling. AR400F delivers a stronger balance of wear resistance and impact toughness.
Key considerations
- Known material grade
- Abrasion at tine edges
- Impact and twisting loads
- Strength-to-weight efficiency
- Repair and replacement frequency
Put it to work
Tracked carriers can transfer substantial force into an attachment, making material selection and reinforcement especially important even when engine horsepower resembles a wheeled machine.
The ANBO approach
ANBO uses USA-sourced AR400F in grapple tines and sizes the structure to the machine class instead of relying on unspecified heavy steel.
