FTH Grabber 60"

I bought this as a pond tool and is works really great!!! It reaches far and is VERY durable. It allows me to firmly grasp pond weeds and algae with no trouble, unlike alot of other flimsy pond tools. This is very well made and I’m happy with the purchase.

Absolutely an amazing item. Use it every time. I’m on my lawnmower to pick up sticks. .. easy gripper it picks up everything very easily

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!

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.

I finally broke down and purchased this grabber after breaking many of the cheap, $10 and $15 plastic ones. The cheap grabbers that ship about a foot long and then you have to unfold and lock into place. After about four of those in a year, I realized I could have just purchased one of these. This grabber is definitely a massive improvement. It's all metal (except for the plastic handle) with very strong tongs on the bottom. They are much stronger than the other grabbers with a wider surface area and teeth. No rubber coatings here. I could easily pick up a can of soup with it without it slipping out of my grasp. My only complaints about it are I wish you could turn the head as you can on the other cheap grabbers. The head on this grabber is permanently stationary. That, and I wish the handle was bent instead of just being straight. But those minor issues aside, I foresee this one lasting much longer than any of my other grabbers so far. It's definitely an improved step up in strength and durability.

I have a compression fracture in my back And was told by my doctor not to bend over too much or lift more than 10 pounds. My yard needs major cleanup with sticks, small branches and rocks. I didn’t really want to wait six months until my back completely healed to be able to clean things up so I got this grabber too do yard cleanup. It actually works really well, grab sticks, small branches, most of the rocks that I need to pick up. At first I thought it was a little lightweight but after using it for a while I can tell why, it should not be any heavier and that works just fine. My biggest complaint is the handle. It’s just not very comfortable, my hand gets fatigued very quickly. It needs more padding, and needs to be a different shape or design or something. It’s very small so I can’t imagine someone with a large hand trying to use it. I will end up trying to modify it in someway to make it more comfortable for my hand, put some padding on there, increase the size or something. It also feels like the actual clamp should face in a slightly different direction. I have The extenders from Costco that I used to pick up things around the house and those seem to be just perfect. At least for what they’re intended for. This one seems to have the orientation of the clamps slightly off. It would be nice if you could actually rotate it and Lock it in place. It’s not cheap so I feel that for $50 it needs some work. So, while it works as intended, it could really use some design help on the handle And the orientation of the actual clamp itself.

I liked the length. I use it to push and pull my wheelchair. I use a stair lift to get to my second floor but to move about on the second floor I need a wheelchair, but the doors to the various rooms in the second floor all open into a Common hallway. Thus I can not keep my wheelchair in the hallway for it blocks movement into one or more of the rooms on the second floor. I use the reacher to push the wheelchair into my room, freeing the hallway up, and then use the graber to pull my wheelchair to me when I need it. I use the four foot version and it is long enough to push and pull the wheelchair in and out of the hallway as needed. The graber itself does not take up much room and I leave it in the hallway next to the chairlift, thus all five doorways on the second floor are open to use. The sole exception is my bedroom where the wheelchair sits, inside the entrance door but out of everyone else's way. Now, when I grab my wheelchair it is by the seat, which is only a quarter of an inch thick. I have to pull down strongly on the lever to get any grip on the seat. That is do to the length of the grabber but it is a weakness. Other than that I have no complaints. I have used it on other things and works best on things wider then a quarter inch. At the same time when in my wheelchair I use shorter grabbers for they just work better at grabbing things within reach. The length of the shorter grabbers does interfere with they use from a wheelchair. The shorter and cheaper grabbers are much better to use for they are easier to grab things within reach and the shorter lengths make them easier to use. The long length gets in the way if you want to grab anything close, i.e. within three feet. For example things in my refrigerator or cabinets I use shorter grabbers and keep my four foot grabber for use where it's length is an asset not an obstacle to use. Please remember your arm length can can two to three feet to the distance you can grab with a reacher. Thus the four foot reacher can reach things six to seven feet away, such as my wheelchair sitting in my room just inside the open door to my room. My brother found it useful to grab something that fell down a drain hole that was out of reach. Thus you have to decide if you need this longer reacher, it does its job very well but does not replace shorter reachers in most situations.

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.