FTH Grabber 40"

My boyfriend loves grabbers and has me sold in them too. When I’m tired it’s so much easier to pick up the debris that’s blown into the yard after a storm or pick up the clothes off the bathroom floor (let’s be real. After taking the hamper out of the bathroom to do laundry it takes at least a week for it to get back in there right? No? Just me?). Now the problem is my boyfriend should really be a durability tester for… well everything. He seems to be just going about life normally but somehow his shoes, clothes, phones (don’t get me started on the phones) and yes grabbers don’t last more than a couple months. Honestly with the grabbers we’re lucky if they last a month. Now those grabbers aren’t cheap to replace every month or two and it’s been draining the bank. Then I saw this beautiful, durable, work of art. I told him if this one didn’t last, we were going to have to develop one ourselves because we couldn’t afford to keep replacing them. This is the real deal. It worked so well for him that I bought a second one for myself. It’s super lightweight so I end up carrying it around because I forget I’m holding it. You would think with something as light as this is that it would bend or break with pressure, but I was able to lift and move a gallon of milk from where it fell (long story) up and over a fence, across the yard, up the stairs, and into the house. This thing didn’t bat an eye at the weight and the grip it so easy to maintain, my hand didn’t even cramp up doing it. My hand usually cramps up carrying the gallon from the car to the stairs so the fact that it was easier to use this grabber than carry it by hand amazed me. The only thing I would change about this miracle of a device is to add rubber to the teeth because trying to pick up anything metal that’s round with it is like trying to catch a greased pig. It’ll slip and slide on it. I used some electrical tape on the tips on mine and it solved that issue. This device is worth not just its weight but also my weight in gold. We have gone through dozens of grabbers that all failed the boyfriend durability test. This is the only one that passed. I’m going to have to order a couple more so my kids stop stealing mine. Parents if you have teenagers who act like picking up their room is cruel and unusual punishment, this is a game-changer. My teens who would have to be coerced into picking up their room by changing the wifi password, now steal my grabber to pick up their room without having to be asked. There are also different lengths to choose from which is amazeballs because I’m short and the longer grabbers are unwieldy and awkward for me (my boyfriend prefers the longer ones which makes sense since he’s taller). This is very likely the best thing I’ve purchased in years. Buy it. You can thank me later.

First, I recently got the Classic Pit Barrel Cooker (cPBC), and I was looking for tongs or a grabber to put charcoal in the cPBC, when I needed to add more charcoal as the food was cooking. This FTH Stainless Steelgrabber (FTHSSG), advertised as the 40 inch version, allowed me to put the charcoal directly in the charcoal bin of the cPBC easily, without me having to manually remove the hanging food, the rebars of the cPBC, and the charcoal bin. The FTHSSG allowed me to easily place the charcoal directly onto the cPBC charcoal bin and load the charcoal. Before I got the FTHSSG when I needed to load the cPBC charcoal bin with more charcoal, in order to bypass the hassle removing the hanging food, rebars, cooking grate to get at the charcoal bin, I'd be like a basketball player and try to toss the charcoal so that it would miss the hanging food, and drop into the charcoal bin, which can be a pain if your aim is not good and the charcoal misses the bin. Today (7/30/2023), I cooked ribs in the cPBC, and I needed to add more charcoal to the cPBC (I've been trying to use as little charcoal as possible, in order to save money). I took out the FTH Stainless Steel Grabber, and the FTHSSG was skinny, light, maneuverable enough to allow me to deftly drop charcoal between the hanging ribs and into the charcoal bin, without any problems at all. I was not only able to drop the charcoal accurately into the cPBC charcoal bin, but I was able to re-arrange the charcoal so that the hot, white charcoal was facing up and under the ribs. I'm happy with the FTHSSG. It's sturdy enough for the task that I've given it. Second, my FTHSSG is not exactly 40. inches long. I measured it, and it's 39 inches. I read some reviews complaining that the FTHSSG was under the advertised length. However, you have to take into consideration the concept of "significant digits," which is usually taught in high school chemistry. If you've forgotten what significant digits means, then you can google "significant digits" or you can look for youtube videos on significant digits for an in-depth explanation of what "significant digits" is all about. But if you were to take significant digits into consideration and since the length was advertised as "40" and not "40." or "40.0," then the 40 inches means it was rounded off to the nearest tens. Thirty-nine (39) was rounded off to forty (40). Therefore, the FTHSSG was advertised correctly. Just saying.

I have bought just about every brand of reach and grab tool in the past 20 years, because I am very rough on them and they break quickly. I use grabbers to pick up driftwood pieces I find on local beaches and I've found that most grabbers are too flimsy for this. Not this puppy! It works great, and the 40 inch length insures a long reach and no bending over is required. This is the strongest and most durable grabber I have ever used, but it is still light weight enough to carry for hours at time. The stainless steel jaws are perfect for picking up random sizes of driftwood. They also work extremely well when I need to grab yard debris, like weeds pulled from flowerbeds, shrub prunings, and especially pine cones! It is handy to use around my firepit since the steel jaws are not going to melt. Of course these cost a lot more than all the others, but I've spent a lot of money repairing and replacing all the cheaper grabbers. I will definitely buy these grabbers again. I will comment that the serrated steel jaws are not made for picking up smooth objects, like a glass bottle, for instance. I prefer using a grabber that has silicone suction cups for indoor use, and I use the steel jaw grabbers outdoors. Unfortunately, these are not "all stainless steel", as I was lead to think. I was surprised to find that the handle grip and trigger are plastic. I am concerned that the plastic parts will be weak links that will break before any of the metal parts. I do not think repairing the plastic part of the grabber would be possible, which is a bummer. For that reason, I have revised my original rating from 5 to 4. I encourage the designer to improve the long-term duability, and make all parts replaceable. Update: After several months of hard use the grabbers have held up and continue to work as intended. I am mindful of not putting excessive force on the handle in order to avoid breaking the plastic parts. It's holding up so far and these are my #1 go-to outdoor grabbers!

We use it on the farm and liked it so much we purchased a second one for our favorite neighbor

Strong grip, works great picking up tree branches and other outdoor debris. I have used it all summer without issue. I chose the shortest length which works very efficiently for my 64” height.

These are absolutely the best pick up tools I have ever used. I now have two of them one for me and one for my wife. They will pick up anything. I would highly recommend

Update November 2025: I've had this for 3 years and have used it just 7 times. It still works fine, but the jaws are really loose and wobble around. It's definitely the 3 rivets that hold the jaws and the actuator rod together that are allowing the extra play. I put three M3 machine screws that are 8mm in length right through the rivets and attached M3 lock nuts on the other side and tightened them down. It took out most of the wobble in the jaws and the screws can always be re-tightened if the jaws become loose again. Note that the M3 screws fit right through the holes in the rivets, so no drilling or other work was required. Original Review from 2022: I like this grabber, but it's not what I expected. First, it's not "all stainless" steel. The handle is obviously plastic and the rod inside of the main shaft is aluminum. The lever part of the handle doesn't have any metal inside at all and the steel shaft only goes about 1.5 inches into the main part of the handle. It's obviously the weak point of the design. Second, this grabber isn't what I would call heavy duty at all. I used this to pull several dozen dead cactus blossoms off of a cactus in my front yard. It grabs just fine, but the jaws are now very loose. The cactus blossoms weigh almost nothing, so I'm not abusing it at all. I think the rivets that hold the jaws together are loose. At least the rivets can be replaced with actual bolts and nuts if they are the problem. I was hoping to be able to use this to grab heavier items, but I just don't think it will last if I do.

I bought the 40" version in July 2024 for use at work for trash and yard debris pick up and I'm still using it today. The jaws have gotten a bit wobbly, which can make it difficult to grab very small things (talking individual leaves or pine needle clusters) with the tip. The main downside of this grabber is the lack of mechanical advantage. It's well built so it has survived my attempts to pick up quite heavy objects, but it's often just not possible due to the force necessary in squeezing the 'trigger'. I think it might be more effective in this regard if the handle and trigger were at a right angle to the shaft. For the record I have pre-existing RSI so that factors in.

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This is a good quality grabber. I am six foot five, have worked hard labor all my life, am getting older, and drop things more than I like nowadays. With the ground so far below my arms reach this grabber is a knee and back saver keeping me from having to make the trip down to get things by hand, then wonder if I'm gonna be able to make it back upright again. I like this grabber because it has the full metal claw and the long length. The claw teeth are a good shape and strong. Even with the extra length of the shaft this grabber has enough strength that I have used it for grabbing several items that far exceeded the grabbers intended use and it did not warp, bend, or break. The claw's teeth were not affected. The claw grip strength is decent, though lighter than other claws that have 90° fingers. It will let things slip when being aggressive with it, but with the right squeeze and some technique I have managed to do a lot of heavy work with various successes. I chose this grabber specifically because of the metal claw so I could sterilize it with all types of chemicals and steam treatments. I have used open flames on it several times. The first time I expected it might not survive as I do not know what the inner linkage between the handle and claw is made of, but it didn't melt or lose strength in the flames. I have used this grabber to pry and scrape frozen dog doo out of the ice in the yard, grab burning embers and logs in the campfire, pull large objects like bags, tools, and water jugs from the far end of the back of my truck, feed ratchet straps under or through a load on my trailer, used it to assist my balance by grabbing shrubs and tree branches while climbing up steeper sections of hiking trails, picked up large rocks, rescue a dropped cell phone out of the lake, and in many other rough use ways. It still looks essentially brand new. Of course the technique of how I have used it is a large part of why I have not destroyed this grabber yet. Nonetheless, I must give ample credit to the quality of the grabber itself for its part through it all. I have used numerous grabbers of all brands, designs, and materials. This grabber is certainly in the upper class, if not in first place for overall quality, utility, and durability. I am very pleased with it and feel I have gotten more value out of it by far than the cost put into getting it.

Very good for acerage maintenance. Use it on ride on mower to clean up paddock sticks.

Very good quality and durable product

Para tomar cosas del piso o alcanzar objetos con cierta altura