Front-End Loader Do I need a FEL?

[keegs]

I use my tractor for cutting back the brush around the edges of the fields, around the pond and along the driveway. An FEL w/hydrolics is going to run close to $7k. I'm still employed but nearing retirement and think it would be easier to spring for it now rather than later. I'm not sure whether it's worth the cost since I haven't had much use for a FEL thus far.

What say you?

TIA

 

[k0ua]

I use my tractor for cutting back the brush around the edges of the fields, around the pond and along the driveway. An FEL w/hydrolics is going to run close to $7k. I'm still employed but nearing retirement and think it would be easier to spring for it now rather than later. I'm not sure whether it's worth the cost since I haven't had much use for a FEL thus far.

What say you?

TIA

I can't imagine tractor ownership without one. The older I get the more important it becomes. Think in terms of being able to lift and move hundreds or thousands of pounds of material with just your fingers or flick of a wrist on your right hand. Useful for things you cannot even imagine now. You will find new jobs for it to do all the time.. My 2 centavos.

 

[prichard]

Someone on here once called it a 4wd wheel barrow. Don't know about you but I don't like wheel barrows. FEL makes life easier, especially since I'm not as strong as I was when younger.

 

[4570Man]

I might as well sell my tractor if I didn't have a FEL. Without the FEL my tractor would be of very little use to me. If you took away my backhoe and FEL my tractor would become 99.8 percent worthless to me.

 

[mecan]

If you use a wheelbarrow, shovel, or a cart then yes. You'll find use for it.

 

[davesl708]

Not only does my FEL work as a wheel barrow it move all the heavy attachments for my SCUT. Lifting the 267lb mower deck or 480 tiller is a snap. Moves all the brush I cut too.

 

[nybirdman]

If you only have one tractor;a FEL is a must.

 

[k0ua]

I read this to my wife and she just laughed. She finds new uses for the FEL every day.

 

[houser52]

Like others have said, it's one of the best things you can have for your tractor. Once you get it you'll wonder why you waited so long to get one. There's always something new that I find to use mine for and the older I get the more I use it.

 

[k0ua]

I don't know how you guys field dress deer, but let me tell you, there aint no better way than hoisting them up with the FEL. Beats the heck out of wrestling around and bending over on the ground.