New Owner / Must haves?

   / New Owner / Must haves? #1  

Skwerl711

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LS XG3140H
New member here, been watching and searching this page while shopping for my first tracor.

Waiting for my New LS XG3140H to be delivered and already thinking about Mods and accessories.
I plan on doing a lot of grade work, brush hogging, firewood, and general utility.

What are some accessories or DIYs that you guys use alot or can't go without?

I'll be shopping for a Back Blade, and Rotary Cutter, and maybe a rototiller soon.
 
   / New Owner / Must haves? #2  
For grading work, you will want a box blade (helps with ballast also when using your loader) and a tooth bar on the loader bucket is very very useful for grading/digging.

If these grading areas are vegetation currently, then a grapple would be also very high on my list. It can also help a lot with firewood gathering/moving, etc.

Those happen to be my top 3 list of useful accessories. Tooth bar, box blade, and grapple. I won't own another tractor without those 3.
 
   / New Owner / Must haves? #3  
New member here, been watching and searching this page while shopping for my first tracor.

Waiting for my New LS XG3140H to be delivered and already thinking about Mods and accessories.
I plan on doing a lot of grade work, brush hogging, firewood, and general utility.

What are some accessories or DIYs that you guys use alot or can't go without?

I'll be shopping for a Back Blade, and Rotary Cutter, and maybe a rototiller soon.

Welcome to TBN and congrats on your upcoming tractor! You will get many suggestions here and ways in which to spend your money!!:laughing:

Unless your new rig comes with a toolbox of decent size (not likely), you will want to consider installing a toolbox. They are great for essential tools, pins, washers, shear bolts (get several for each implement that needs them and keep in separate marked zip-loc bags), gloves, etc... Here is a pic of the one I mounted on my new tractor. Cost was minimal.

toolbox.jpg

As you mentioned firewood, a chainsaw holder and/or carry-all will make life easier. Always a danger placing saws in the FEL and forgetting when you attempt to load the bucket :eek:

Having a fire extinguisher is handy as well. Woodsman's Pal.jpg

If the deck of your tractor does not have any rubber, fabricating one will not only protect the paint (if that matters to you), it also adds better traction. DSCN1261.JPG

Good luck, and enjoy that new tractor!!
 
   / New Owner / Must haves? #4  
Waiting for my New LS XG3140H to be delivered and already thinking about Mods and accessories.
I plan on doing a lot of grade work, brush hogging, firewood, and general utility.

I'll be shopping for a Back Blade, and Rotary Cutter, and maybe a rototiller soon.
Those would be (and were) on the top of my list. The rototiller, assuming you plan to prepare a substantial garden or other seedbed.

For firewood, as Deerslayer says, a carryall. The FEL bucket suddenly gets pretty small if you want to move much wood. They are cheap, and have lots of other uses too.

I don't think there is anything else that's essential. But if you have money to burn there are a few things that can be useful. For example, a pto chipper to get rid of all the brush from all that firewook.
 
   / New Owner / Must haves? #5  
Pallet forks. We use them all the time, unloading stuff, moving stuff (including other attachments), tilting something up to work on the bottom, rocks, lumber, flagstone, the list goes on.
 
   / New Owner / Must haves? #6  
Grade 70, 5/16" chain Grab Hooks through-bolted or welded on the tractor's bucket.
Ken's Bolt on Grab Hooks <<Home>>

1/4" or 5/16" Grade 70 chain, one 12' length, one 8' length, with a Grade 70 chain Slip Hook/Forestry Hook on one end, a Grade 70 chain Grab Hook on the other end.
Ken's Bolt on Grab Hooks <<Accessories>>

A clevis mount chain grab hook mounted to the rear, center-drawbar.
Hook for Drawbar on Tractor 3/4 Pin

A Three Point Hitch cross drawbar, with one Grade 70, 5/16" chain Grab Hook bolted on, in lieu of a clevis; a "Hanging Tree" for skidding logs and possibly a trailer ball hitch.
DURA HITCH
SHORT BOOM POLE ADAPTER

Tractor rear mounted box for containing logging chains between uses. I use 1/2 of a WWII 40mm ammo box.
 

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   / New Owner / Must haves? #8  
If you have a sufficient amount of clearing and brush hauling to do, a grapple would be handy. I sure wish I had bought one when I was clearing my land of underbrush. It would have been much easier than piling everything on the FEL arms by hand.

If you can burn, not much use for a PTO chipper, just pile up unwanted brush, let it dry and set fire to it.

Tool box is about the first thing you will want to put on your tractor to keep your spare pins and a few wrenches. I mounted mine above the left fender by using self tapping screws into the FOPS upright.

A box blade is likely a necessity if you plan to do a lot of hillside leveling.

A rotary cutter is needed if you plan to keep the underbrush down. Lots of small stuff can just be shredded up and left to rot in place, a couple of years and it is gone or you could then use the grapple to scrape it into piles for burning.

A roto-tiller is great for preparing a garden spot, just don't overdo the tilling. You don't want it in a powder.

Lots of folks build a 3 PH carryall which is OK for hauling if you don't have anything else to do it with. I prefer to use my Kubota RTV 900 with hydraulic dump bed to haul everything I need to haul. I couldn't do without it. I would likely give up my tractor before my RTV.

Hopefully you have an air compressor because that and an air powered grease gun makes greasing a one man affair. They are much cheaper than the $120 battery powered ones and I have never had to grease my tractor or equipment out in the field so portability is not an issue. Also need that compressor to keep your tractor tires aired up properly. Nothing spoils the day like rolling a tractor tire off the rim due to low air pressure. R4 tires with their 8 ply or more side walls don't flex the sidewalls much when low, they just roll off the rim when the air pressure gets too low <BTDT>
 
   / New Owner / Must haves? #9  
Grapples are great also! That's been my most recent addition, and for general cleanup of brush, limbs, entire trees, large rocks, and other stuff I'm still discovering, it is something that turns many big jobs into just a few minutes.

When you do like I did, and buy the grapple a few years after the tractor; you tend to kick yourself thinking "How many hours of runtime could I have saved had I just bought the grapple with the tractor on day one?"...
 
   / New Owner / Must haves? #10  
I do NOT have a grapple.

I cleared a lot of Florida jungle, transporting the debris on aluminum Debris Forks. Debris Forks require significant hand loading and carry a lot of soil with the debris. However, very good for transporting firewood.

Later I bought a Dirt Dog (brand) Field Cultivator to clear out wild grape vine roots, wild rose corms and soft-wood tree roots. I found the Field Cultivator, lifted 6" above grade, to be an excellent method of transporting snarled debris without having to load by hand and without carrying dirt in the debris.

Just offering this as an alternative thought should clearing vines, corms and roots be on your agenda. <$1,000

The best attachment for COLLECTING and PILING debris is a Ratchet Rake bucket attachment.



Photo #10 ~ Probably 1,100 pounds of snarled, damp, jungle debris.
 

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