Self made attachments

[magicheater]

What is the best attachment you have ever made for your tractor? There seems to be an attachment for everything, but yet somehow it just doesn't do what we want it to do so we modify or build from new something that serves
our purpose somehow a little bit better. I have made a few that serve my purposes very well and I continue to use them.
From what I have seen here on TBN there is a lot of creativity exercised and I have seen many examples of this. A pallet jack turned into a 3PT/FEL forklift is the latest. The homemade grapple out of box blade tines is another favorite of mine. The plethora of carryalls might be the most common and the most individualized. So what is yours?

 

[6sunset6]

logging winch plus

 

[LD1]

Nothing out of the ordinary but the hitch I made out of an old truck reciever probabally gets the most use. nice for shuttling trailers short distances. Don't even have to get off the tractor, just backup, raise, move to wherever, and lower. It is also nice for skidding logs. By raising just a little not only helps put more weight over the rear tires (more traction) but it helps the front of the log not to dig in.

The only other thing that I have made is like a middle buster/subsoiler on sterroids. It looks more like a dozer ripper shank. I made it to install a invisible dog fence but have since used it as a root ripper when digging out stumps with the FEL.

 

[gladehound]

Needed a real sturdy fixed hitch for pulling a 10,000 pound trailer with up to 2,000 pounds of tongue weight with a 20 hp tractor. My solution was a bolt on truck hitch with a top link to suspend the tongue weight from the 3pt top link attachment point. Here's a picture.

 

[Runner]

My most used is the front quick-hitch (either with, or without my three-point hitch mounted). With it, I can put any three-point attachment on the front, including my carryall. Coolest so far is my boom pole (in my humble opinion).

 

[flusher]

What is the best attachment you have ever made for your tractor? There seems to be an attachment for everything, but yet somehow it just doesn't do what we want it to do so we modify or build from new something that serves
our purpose somehow a little bit better. I have made a few that serve my purposes very well and I continue to use them.
From what I have seen here on TBN there is a lot of creativity exercised and I have seen many examples of this. A pallet jack turned into a 3PT/FEL forklift is the latest. The homemade grapple out of box blade tines is another favorite of mine. The plethora of carryalls might be the most common and the most individualized. So what is yours?

Bale accumulator/bale squeeze with skid steer QA adapter for my Mahindra 5525.

 

[Spudland_Dave]

What is the best attachment you have ever made for your tractor?

Simple Question for me to answer!

 

[wvpolekat]

My most used is the front quick-hitch (either with, or without my three-point hitch mounted). With it, I can put any three-point attachment on the front, including my carryall. Coolest so far is my boom pole (in my humble opinion).

I am debating building something very similar to your carryall. My father is in a wheelchair and visits once a year. There are 5 steps to get into my house, which makes it hard for him. I was thinking I could use something very similar to what your carryall looks like to lift him to where he can just roll out onto the porch.

 

[grnspot110]

5' boom for my 300 loader, so far, it's painted now:

 

[jayste]

So far it's my forks. So many uses and I'm adding more to attach to the main frame. Receiver and top trailer ball as well. A boom pole is in the planning stage to adapt to the main frame.