Quick-attach brush fork with removeable stick rakes. Raking a lot, picking up rocks.
I raked up piles of vegetation, backed the brushhog over the piles and reduced them to mulch, then pushed the piles of mulch off into the bushes.
Here's the
build page for the stick rakes on my old
BX24 (sold). Here's the
build page for the quick-release, it quickly bloated with other folks' tine problems. So I can see this is a concern! I was jazzed about my quick release arrangement but nobody cared. To me it's just about the best feature of the brush fork, how easy it goes on and off.
With regard to tines,,,,,,,, my tines are 1 x 2 x .120wall steel tube, 47 inches long, weight 68 lbs. But there are 5 of them, and the outer two are vulnerable - can take a beating if you're sloppy. It's a balance of light weight and "suitable" strength for a "882lbs" FEL . 4 feet is a foot too long but I know how strong they are and can deal with the extra foot. At some point I will add doublers near the tine root and it will be OK. But for the general public (without my experience bending tines & straightening them !! ) I would recommend - use 36 inch length, or reinforce the tines at the root or both. This is all for a compact tractor, 882 lbs capacity. A bigger tractor will need bigger tines.
Using brush fork to put a snowmobile on a shelf for after winter. Note that LA402 loader is rated 882 lbs but with 588 lbs on the FEL (as in this pic) I had to build the shelf height at 50 inches because LA402 was not capable to lift 588 lbs the full 66 inches.
