Implement/Attachment you wish you had sooner

[TheSpoon]

Scanning the forum and I found a list of everyone's "favorite" attachments (ended up turning into everyone just listing which ones they had) and I was curious. What are the 1 or 2 attachments you wish you had got sooner then you did?

Perhaps related: besides the normal uses of the attachments, do you have any attachments that are useful doing something they weren't necessarily intended for? For instance, there was a thread where someone was using their root grapple to split wood.

I'm getting my first tractor in the next couple months with a "mandatory" rotary cutter and grading scraper (will probably change this to a more useful box scraper) and have room for maybe another implement or 2. I see a lot that would be useful to me (Top & Tilt and root grapple for instance) but am curious what other ones everyone finally got that maybe did more than they thought they would with it

 

[Lil Foot]

Bucket forks. I am still amazed at all the uses I find for these things- moving small logs & slash, lumber, rollaways/toolboxes, furniture, (outside, not in the house) pipe, lawn cart, firewood, large rocks, my other tractor implements, work benches, ladders, concrete planters, a small storage shed, T-posts, rolled fence material, gates; the list is endless.

 

[L4740]

Piranha tooth bar for my bucket and a landscape rake with gage wheels for my BX23. A little more expensive on my list has to be my grapple for my rock bucket on my L4740.

 

[Corney]

Quick hitch and blade box.

 

[Greenhead]

Quick Hitch is a blessing. Forks are sure handy. Got mine from the junk yard and welded a QH plate to them. Next I would have to say the tiller. It does a better job and replaced three pieces of equipment, double bottom plow, disc, and spring tooth/cultivator.

 

[skeets]

A bigger tractor with a cab and AC and heater just in case it snow

 

[cmorris1]

I absolutely LOVE my grapple!!

 

[forceten]

Forks! Best thing since sliced bread

 

[Fastdonzi]

After 17yrs of having 2wd and No Front Loader.... Boy this sure is Sweet (L3560 w/Loader) I Heat 100% with wood. in the last week I have hauled in 5 trees. Didn't even feel sore the next day for the first time ever .... Now Ive got QA Forks too... I'm Liking it A lot

 

[RonBoyBX25D]

i would say the forks & grapple are the 2 I wish would have been purchased earlier.

 

[olthumpa]

Hodge's stabilizers ! !
SSQA

 

[Ezlife45]

My whole setup, bought at one time except for the #3 which was a few months later...

1. B2650 tractor with quick release bucket
2. Pallet Forks
3. Grapple
4. Box blade
5. Bush hog

I probably would benefit from a flail cutter instead of a bush hog for my purposes but I really use all the front attachments frequently. I used to do all sorts of yard work manually and can't get over how much easier a tractor makes what I spent half my earlier years doing the hard way. Note you need a 3rd function valve for the grapple.

 

[bcbull378]

When I bought my tractor pallet forks came with it I didn't think I'd use them much . I use them all the time. I have my welder and cutting torch mounted to a pallet , my gopher blaster on a pallet it makes it so easy to move your tools to your work location. I built a pallet with sides so when trimming trees I get in the pallet box and my wife lifts me up to trim trees I would be without pallet forks ever again

 

[eddiebob]

Front End Loader, Hodges Stabilizer Bars, and pine straw rake! Ed B

 

[gpreuss]

Front End Loader, Hodges Stabilizer Bars, and pine straw rake! Ed B

I surely agree on both Hodge's stabilizer bars, and the pine straw rake! If you have pine needles, the rake gets about 99+% of them in a single pass. Also great for stirring up the gravel on the driveway before winter freezes it.

 

[gssixgun]

Pallet Forks.... Yep use them more then any other implement. I never imagined all the uses they have..



I have a funny feeling the new Piranha tooth bar will be very handy this coming Spring..

 

[BravoXray]

I went almost a year before I got the Piranha toothbar, and ROPS led lights. Those two things I wish I had from day one!

Jerry

 

[notnew2diy]

A tractor.
A front end loader.
A post hole digger.
A 3pt carryall.

FWIW....don t. ...

 

[Tooljunkie]

A harley rake.
A tiller
BAckhoe
Loader
Have none of the above, working on a couple.

 

[Burt]

Scanning the forum and I found a list of everyone's "favorite" attachments (ended up turning into everyone just listing which ones they had) and I was curious. What are the 1 or 2 attachments you wish you had got sooner then you did?

Perhaps related: besides the normal uses of the attachments, do you have any attachments that are useful doing something they weren't necessarily intended for? For instance, there was a thread where someone was using their root grapple to split wood.

I'm getting my first tractor in the next couple months with a "mandatory" rotary cutter and grading scraper (will probably change this to a more useful box scraper) and have room for maybe another implement or 2. I see a lot that would be useful to me (Top & Tilt and root grapple for instance) but am curious what other ones everyone finally got that maybe did more than they thought they would with it

Ron,

Hodges stabilizers, pat's quick hitch, box blade.

Burt