Attachments you're glad you bought

[FTG-05]

Cat Fever
What kind of lift arms are those ? My weight box is hard to hook up where it is so heavy I cannot even crow bar it even a little if need be. Yours will telescope a few inches It looks like? that would be a big help with all 3pt implements.

Quick video about those type lift arms about 3:55 here: Two Similar Tractors, Why One is $3 More - YouTube

My Kubota L4330 has them. If it didn't, I'd probably never get my 3ph stuff hooked up!

 

[k0ua]

Quick video about those type lift arms about 3:55 here: Two Similar Tractors, Why One is $3 More - YouTube

My Kubota L4330 has them. If it didn't, I'd probably never get my 3ph stuff hooked up!

And the more expensive tractor had a foldable ROPS too. In my pea brain, all of those features added up to that $3000 that they want for the more expensive tractor. Those features are WELL worth the extra money, as over a lifetime of operation those features will save considerable time and effort on the part of the operator. The extendable lower links and coupled with the telescoping stabilizers it will also have make hookups so much easier and faster.

This is why I would always advise new prospective buyers to always buy the more expensive better equipped tractor. Many people deride this decision and call these time saving and useful features "bells and whistles" so as to denigrate this purchase decision. Well I say they are FOS. They are NOT "bells and whistles" or superfluous features, in my mind they are features that should be on all tractors.

But manufactures take a tractor and then analyze ways to strip it down and remove as many features as possible and still have a tractor that functions so that they can sell it to a price point.

I have owned these tractors, and I have a deluxe tractor now. Believe me when I say all of those "bells and whistles" make a tremendous difference in your day to day operation.

By the way, that was the dealership where I bought my tractor, and "Tractor Mike" was the manager there when I bought my tractor.

 

[IslandTractor]

#1 without question is my $500 48" "lightweight" grapple from Millonzi. Going on 12 years of abuse and has battle scars but works perfectly still.
#2 Woods BH90x. We have a private community water system that springs leaks each year and the BH has save many hours and many backs. It also, when equipped with a ripper, has helped remove many dozens of trees with minimal ground disturbance.
#3 Caroni TM1900 flail mower. Does the job and saves worry about throwing projectiles near houses and children.
#4 a simple FEL tree boom. Use it as a crane.

 

[k0ua]

#1 without question is my $500 48" "lightweight" grapple from Millonzi. Going on 12 years of abuse and has battle scars but works perfectly still.
#2 Woods BH90x. We have a private community water system that springs leaks each year and the BH has save many hours and many backs. It also, when equipped with a ripper, has helped remove many dozens of trees with minimal ground disturbance.
#3 Caroni TM1900 flail mower. Does the job and saves worry about throwing projectiles near houses and children.
#4 a simple FEL tree boom. Use it as a crane.

You definitely have some nice "toys". :thumbsup:

 

[IslandTractor]

You definitely have some nice "toys". :thumbsup:

That's what life is about right? Wine, women, song and toys.

 

[FTG-05]

And the more expensive tractor had a foldable ROPS too. In my pea brain, all of those features added up to that $3000 that they want for the more expensive tractor. Those features are WELL worth the extra money, as over a lifetime of operation those features will save considerable time and effort on the part of the operator. The extendable lower links and coupled with the telescoping stabilizers it will also have make hookups so much easier and faster.

This is why I would always advise new prospective buyers to always buy the more expensive better equipped tractor. Many people deride this decision and call these time saving and useful features "bells and whistles" so as to denigrate this purchase decision. Well I say they are FOS. They are NOT "bells and whistles" or superfluous features, in my mind they are features that should be on all tractors.

But manufactures take a tractor and then analyze ways to strip it down and remove as many features as possible and still have a tractor that functions so that they can sell it to a price point.

I have owned these tractors, and I have a deluxe tractor now. Believe me when I say all of those "bells and whistles" make a tremendous difference in your day to day operation.

By the way, that was the dealership where I bought my tractor, and "Tractor Mike" was the manager there when I bought my tractor.

Yea I lucked out buying my tractor at the same auction where I bought my house and farm. Back then I didn't know the difference between a ROPS vs. 3ph never mind the fact that I didn't even know how to spell tracter back then.

 

[deanocraft]

My most used is a Caroni TM1500 flail mower. It stays on the back most of the time!

 

[PILOON]

My plain old ordinary back blade!
Once I mastered it it does every and anything involving spreading and grading that I want to do.
To spread consistently you want to plow/push backwards having your wheels on a flat surface.
Forget pulling that blade. Flip it around and push backwards vs pulling that material.
Use your FEL to move quantities of material followed with the back blade to finish it off smooth.
I like to tilt my FEL and bulldoze excessive material and follow with the back blade.

Now that I have mastered the techniques I can spread and level finish a 12 wheeler load of material (crushed) in usually one hour per load.
And that is even recycled asphalt which IMHO is the best finish topping.

 

[cat fever]

So this is a new hay toy I mean tool. First use was today and I can say I'm glad I bought it. What a time and BACK saver.

 

[zoltanthegypsy]

Now that's just cheating 50+ years ago in Eastern Washington you'd find me surfing on a baler sled, holding a pike pole, and dodging rattlers. Big fun!

Z.

 

[cat fever]

Yea, I've always done things the hard way for lots of years. I'm finally starting to wake up and spend a little cash to make my life easier. Last year loading hay by hand I nearly died from heat exhaustion. Told my wife we gotta do something different. Right now I'm happy with different.:laughing:

 

[cat fever]

#1 without question is my $500 48" "lightweight" grapple from Millonzi. Going on 12 years of abuse and has battle scars but works perfectly still.
#2 Woods BH90x. We have a private community water system that springs leaks each year and the BH has save many hours and many backs. It also, when equipped with a ripper, has helped remove many dozens of trees with minimal ground disturbance.
#3 Caroni TM1900 flail mower. Does the job and saves worry about throwing projectiles near houses and children.
#4 a simple FEL tree boom. Use it as a crane.

Ed,
You know how to play, that's all I can say.:thumbsup:

 

[IslandTractor]

So this is a new hay toy I mean tool. First use was today and I can say I'm glad I bought it. What a time and BACK saver.


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Very cool device. What do they call those things? Do you pick up bales individually or are the bales all lined up together before you scoop them up? Can you "dump" them neatly right on the trailer or does a person need to organize the trailer stacking?

 

[cat fever]

Very cool device. What do they call those things? Do you pick up bales individually or are the bales all lined up together before you scoop them up? Can you "dump" them neatly right on the trailer or does a person need to organize the trailer stacking?

It's called a "Rocky Mountain Bale Sweep".
So basically you drive through the field and just pick them up where they fell of the baler. I think if a person has a deck over trailer it would work better than one like I have. (with small sides) Mine needed a little organizing after placing them on the trailer. My wife said we need a new/better trailer for getting hay.:thumbsup: But I'm only moving the hay from the field to the barn.
If you google the name they have some video's of them in action.