What is your favorite attachment / implement, and why?

couchsachraga · May 2, 2012

As i have a new tractor appearing within the next month, and a few new implements showing up as well, I started to wonder if there was anything else I should look in to. Yes, I realize it is job - specific, but I thought a general thread might be even more useful.

For a FRONT implement my WR Long Grapple rake is something I wish I had purchases earlier (and i've had it for 8 years or so). Moving rocks, brush, logs, picking up implements, moving objects strapped to it, hanging barn doors, it is the most useful tractor attachment I own.

For a REAR implement I'd guess my Woods Landscape offsetting Landscape rake gets the award. I used to have a Leinbach, which is a nice rake, but I'm amazed how much better the Woods works (even without the offsetting feature). It's a rake! How different can it be? But the results speak for themselves.

I also have an offsetting back blade, a box blade, a replacement brush hog coming (had a Woods Brush Bull, will have a Deere MX6 going forward), and one implement new to me - a Land Plane. I also have access to a post hole digger which is admittedly great for digging when you need it, but I'm happy to be able to borrow it and not own it as I'd use it so infrequently.

So, what implements can't you live without?

Not Retired Yet · May 2, 2012

Considering all the clean up I'm doing my top implements are the chipper on back and grapple on front. Both are HUGE time savers!

Bartcephus · May 2, 2012

Hard one to answer.... My FEL is a great attachment but I also really love my Howse tiller. Many implements have a specific purpose, hiller/bedder, post hole auger, disk, middle buster, brush hog, cultivator, box blade, landscape rake and yes, even the drawbar that fits in the lower links. I use them all. I bought some sweeps for the cultivator, but I think the chisel points really worked better in the harder soil. I also bought a furrower blade to put on the middle buster which makes a narrower furrow to set out my rows. Can't beat the post hole auger for installing gates, fences or even a basketball goal but for a mail box, the manual digger was better. I'd like to get a row planter and a cultipacker but those are probably too expensive for me to justify in my small scale gardening and food plots.

Steave · May 2, 2012

I use my rotary cutter more than all the rest. What I've got good use out of is my landscape rake. Can use it for general cleanup around edge of fields, can back up and drop it in a ditch to rake out honeysuckles, everytime I go out to clean up a fallen tree it's the first implement I use.

Guess I'd have to say my rake is my favorite because after looking at a pile of limbs scattered under the trees and looking at it after work with the rake makes me see just how much work can be done with something this simple. If I had a grapple it would probably be my favorite.

Enjoyed reading your thread. Reading threads like this one about different implements usually costs me money.

charlz · May 2, 2012

Whichever one I have on at the time that is saving me tons of backbreaking manual labor?

I have my tiller on the most because I use it to till the gardens, compost piles and my sons track. When not in use it makes the best counterweight as it is heavy but not much wider than the tractor so I don't have to remember it is back there.

texasjohn · May 2, 2012

I love my hydraulic top link.

phiferpharm · May 2, 2012

Maybe cause it's new to me, I'm really enjoying the grapple at this point.

Zebrafive · May 2, 2012

1 Front End Loader
2 Grapple
3 brush hog
4 chipper

I have more, but those are the top four.

yandeereguy · May 2, 2012

Box scraper, it's the first implement I've purchased and made my driveway nice in no time.. I could'nt believe what I could do in two hours in the seat..

I have a backhoe also but she's new and never even dug a hole with it yet!!! I'm afraid to use it really, so I won't say it's my favorite. maybe I'll break it out tommorow and do some work with it..