Your most used/valuable attachment?

[nybirdman]

For dirt work;the box blade for sure.Everything else the thumb on my bucket.

 

[Ibow]

What size box blade do you have nybirdman? Is your box blade something you run with a JD?

 

[The Suburban Farmer]

The "least used" but valuable to me is the wing plow I built for the JD 4300. This winter only used it once, but it was available, quick to mount, and easy to store. And the snowplow berm was quickly moved back making room for more snow.

That is a GREAT idea. Agree it's probably not "most valuable overall" but it certainly would have been "most valuable this winter" for us. The snow banks on the sides of our driveway got out of control since they just melted enough to turn into ice. Wish I'd had one of those when I started the winter. Our long driveway just kept getting narrower and narrower and narrower...

 

[The Suburban Farmer]

For me, I'd have to say:

1. Forks (mine are clamp on, but they're REALLY handy)
2. Landscape rake (even turned it into a make-shift snowplow when my "real" plow broke one of the welds)
3. Box Blade
4. Everything else

Here is my "had-to-make-something-quick-when-my-original-homemade-snowplow-busted-a-weld-and-we-had-8-inches-of-fresh-snow" snow plow made from a 2x12 and the landscape rake -- I seem to ALWAYS find a use for the landscape rake around here it seems... spring, summer, fall or winter. It has probably been my single most-attached implement over the last 3 years of cleaning up the new 6 acre homestead. The landscape rake can be used for SO many different things, I don't think I could get by without it.

 

[MH8675309]

Front loader

 

[IslandTractor]

Light duty grapple. It is on my loader 80% of the time.

 

[vtsnowedin]

The "least used" but valuable to me is the wing plow I built for the JD 4300. This winter only used it once, but it was available, quick to mount, and easy to store. And the snowplow berm was quickly moved back making room for more snow.

I enjoyed that thread and it is high on my bucket list. looked at a $200 , 7'6' fisher blade the other day on Craig s list that might be the blade for the project.

 

[bigtiller]

Mower deck, then the tiller followed by the snowblower.

 

[Ibow]

Thanks for all the responses. :thumbsup:

 

[beesnstuff]

snow blower. Everyday, from October to May

 

[Marveltone]

Even though it's easily removed, my grapple (the Thumb) never comes off my bucket, as I'm always grabbing things with it. If I'm mowing trails and find a tree across the path, which happens often, I can move it. I've learned that since it opens almost vertically, I can use it as a back support for moving large items, like refrigerators, freezers, furnaces, etc. Just strap the item to the open thumb with a ratchet strap. It stays put. Brush piles and tree trimmings are a also piece of cake. I've even cobbled together a system to fasten a spool for fencing wire to it. This makes fencing so much easier.

After the Thumb, I would have a hard time deciding what gets the most use. Maybe the rotary cutter. I'm constantly mowing trails, ditches, and firebreaks with the RC, but when I'm not, the box blade goes on with the suitcase weights as a ballast box. It also doubles as my log skidder. Sometimes I even move dirt and gravel with it!

Of course, I can't imagine going through an entire winter without my trusty snow blower. November through March (sometimes longer) is pretty much exclusively snow blower season.

Does a Quick Attach count? :confused3:

 

[Sprinklerman]

For making money , aerator , then rotary cutter, ( I am in the suburbs very few tractors around lots of skid steers) the box scraper , then york rake and tiller . I do the best with the aerators , I have a 4 ft and a 6 ft , I can aerate all day where the guys running behind the little walk behinds are worn out by lunch . I aerated eight 3/4 to 1 acre lawns today , fert and seed . $ 200 and up for each lawn .

 

[Ibow]

Thanks again for all the replies. Sure seems like people like those grapple hooks!

 

[Ibow]

For making money , aerator , then rotary cutter, ( I am in the suburbs very few tractors around lots of skid steers) the box scraper , then york rake and tiller . I do the best with the aerators , I have a 4 ft and a 6 ft , I can aerate all day where the guys running behind the little walk behinds are worn out by lunch . I aerated eight 3/4 to 1 acre lawns today , fert and seed . $ 200 and up for each lawn .

Thanks Sprinklerman... that was VERY helpful. As I mentioned, I want to do a little work with my JD. Again, not to make a living but just to make a few bucks for spending. Thanks for your post.

 

[vtsnowedin]

A much shorter list would be attachments we didn't like.
Or perhaps ones that work but get little use after a one time project gets completed.

 

[Looking4new]

The most used is my snow blower.
I swing my back blade to the side and angle it to shelf back the snow banks part way through the winter. It works, just not as good as a wing plow would.

 

[bindian]

Thanks Brandi. Do you have a pict of the grader blade for your backhoe?

Yes I do.................
hugs, Brandi

 

[Sodo]

That would do it! Do you try to keep it "even", or just "go at it"?

 

[IslandTractor]

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hugs, Brandi

Great attachment for the backhoe.

This is my favorite backhoe attachment:



A ripper makes very quick work of medium sized trees that are too big to just push over with a grapple and where chainsawing would leave a stump that needs digging out. Ripping the roots and pushing the tree over leaves a very small scar and no stump. Easy peasy. Ten or so minutes per tree up to about six inches in diameter including moving them to a pile. Bigger trees possible too but usually require moving the BH a couple of times to rip more roots.

 

[vtsnowedin]

That has a Jurassic Park quality to it.