</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I'd be nervous to put some serious ground engaging implements on the FEL, such as a box blade or rear blade. If they dig in, I'd think you could bend the FEL frame. A broom, or landscape rake shouldn't be an issue.
Maybe I don't understand what you are after?
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I agree, SERIOUS ground engagement might be BAD if you catch something big. I'm not sure about this, but I think that if I was pulling a box blade in REVERSE a sudden stop might be partly absorbed by the loader hydraulics, e.g. it might be (slightly) less bad than the same stop moving forwards with the BB on the 3pt.
My first goal was to be able to more easily load implements onto a trailer - THAT was stimulated by trying to get a couple of implements off a snowmobile trailer that was too short and too fragile for me to actually take the tractor ONTO, but it was also too high for my 3pt to hook directly to the implements and lift them. I solved that with chains and the FEL, but it wasn't comfortable dangling 600 or so lb items just inches from the front of the tractor.
Then came the thought that IF the implements could be lifted high enough they could be STACKED on a construction trailer and the FEL could certainly do that if I had a skid steer to 3pt adapter. EUREKA (or somesuch).
OK, I'd still have to build some sort of a rack for the trailer - and it would probably have to be a "knock down" type - and I'd have to be conscious of the instability that comes with heavy weights up high - and it would need to have the weight bearing capacity to haul all these bits,,,, and on and on, but it might avoid or postpone the problem of running out of trailer floor space ?
Alternatively, I could get by with a shorter trailer, now THAT has some appeal.
Rack 'em and stack 'em - heavies on the bottom, lighties on the top.