Mutlipurpose QA or bucket attached help

[okiecraig]

Have Kubota L3940 with LA 724 FEL. Need to clean up after ice storms, tornado, and severe thunderstorms (yes, I live in OKlahoma!) as well as remove the leftover round bale when my wife's darn horses get too persnickety too eat it. (I can't seem to get hay to stay in a bucket.)

Any ideas for a multipurpose attachment that will take care of all the above? Would also like to move round bales with FEL instead of 3-pt hitch.

 

[okiecraig]

Anybody tried the clamp-on forks from yankeewarehouse.net?

 

[PapaPerk]

I vote for QA pallet forks!

 

[k0ua]

Get a QA hay spear for the hay bales, and in my opinion, get some QA forks, I tried the clamp on forks, yeah they work but there a lot of downsides,
1: they stick way the heck out there, beyond the bucket. this really lowers you lift capacity.

2: You cant see anything, the darn bucket is in the way.

You can use them to haul brush, the work pretty good for that, and they are relativity cheap but a hydraulic grapple will work better:laughing: I moved a bunch of brush from a downed tree friday, with my QA forks:

Construction Attachments 42" Compact Tractor loader Pallet Forks CAL-1PFCMPSM42

And they worked well, but not as fast as a grapple. Most of the brush I had to get off and stack it by hand. Brush that was already stacked on the ground evenly, I was able to slide under the stack and lift and go. I would not reccomend hay bales with forks, even tho I know guys do that, but there is some risk if the bale rolls backward due to inatention or accidently raising the lift too high and crushing the operator. Less likely to happen with the spear. YMMV

James K0UA

 

[okiecraig]

Thanks for the response. I will opt for Quick Hitch forks for about $600 and then come up with some clamp-on "fingers" to attach to the forks to pick up loose hay and debris.

 

[jdonovan]

sounds like a QA grapple would be the ticket.

But if you've got a non-qa loader, and no 3rd function, then it would be a costly upgrade.

 

[Piston]

sounds like a QA grapple would be the ticket.

But if you've got a non-qa loader, and no 3rd function, then it would be a costly upgrade.

+1 I personally will never be without the grapple. Well worth the initial cost. If your main goal is cleaning up storm damage Then a grapple will work 10 times better than forks. I have both and unless I'm moving a pallet, the grapple is better for every thing else. I cleaned up after hurricane Irene and the grapple made quick, easy, and fun cleanup. There is no comparison.