Tractor Supply Boom Pole

[chupacabra]

I bought one Thursday, (the cheapie, $129.00) and got it home and hooked it up. Very, Very poor welding on it. Plus, the holes for the top attachment were catty wampus!! Just looked like it was spray painted on the top. Bottom was barely painted!!! I will attach some pictures when I go out later.

 

[wsp617]

I got the King Kutter pole used with my JD 1070. None of the yellow KK stuff has good paint on it but the pole itself has been good. I've overloaded it and it's worked well.

 

[chupacabra]

I got the countyline boom pole. I will do a little extra welding on and repaint it and use it. I couldn't justify spending any more on a boom pole for no more than I will use it. Plus, I got a little tractor!

 

[bullbreaker]

Heres mine square tubing World Agri Corp or also known as International. Think I gave $150 about 6 years ago. It came red I painted JD green .

Boone

 

[Domush]

I think you may be surprised at just how many uses a boom pole can have. I bought mine thinking it would come in handy once in a great while.. now it's nearly always on my tractor. I use it for tons of stuff. Lifting posts out, moving my table saw, relocated some steel stairs, even used it to load a front end loader on a guy's trailer. These things can hold a serious amount of weight and have a great amount of reach and lift height. You may find this is the best $129 you have ever spent, especially given the back pain you will prevent by using it. Boom poles are definitely :thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[waltsp]

Bought one myself some months ago and as it sat, was extremely useful.
With my TC18 (no FEL) was able to move around cut trees, and some very large limestone rocks.
Sometimes the larger rocks would have to connect at the halfway point and still touched the ground to keep the front wheels on the ground.

Recently I added a 2000 Lb winch to it. Using some hook pulleys (sides open up) to route the cable, It has been even more useful. The winch has the power to slide the tractor (with the boom lowered) if the load is too great. Even at that, I have been able to pull cut brush out instead of moving it manually. Now with the addition of log hook, I even move an entire tree that was just cut down (No Trimming) to a better location to remove the limbs and save the log. Also used the winch to move rocks from the hillside cut (for the house foundation) from above.

 

[Domush]

I'd love to see a photo of your winch, pole, log hook setup! I have about 70 trees to cut and move and that setup sounds perfect!

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[deerseeker001]

I got the King Kutter pole used with my JD 1070. None of the yellow KK stuff has good paint on it but the pole itself has been good. I've overloaded it and it's worked well.

i also have one of these ,they are very handy to have around.

 

[Baby Grand]

I have one that I bought to unload my KKII tiller from the trailer when I brought it home - the boom pole was on sale for $99. It's great for moving logs and also brush. I have abused mine mightily and it's still working. Here's a shot of it moving a silver maple from across my driveway (and power lines) after a storm back in August.



Please take note of the rope attaching the drawbar directly to the log. This does 2 things: it prevents a hung up log from applying an aftward load to the top link, reducing the tendency for the front wheels to lift and the tractor flipping over. It also prevents the stick/slip friction action of the log with the ground, which can turn the log into a battering ram on your PTO. I have never used this rig to move large loads down a steep incline - I don't believe it would end well, as the rope won't prevent the battering ram effect in compression.

There's a lot to think about if you intend to move heavy timber with one of these. A better tool would have a blade that covers the butt of the log and that the log rests on when it's being pulled. Logging winches do this as well as a few other attachments.

 

[waltsp]

I'd love to see a photo of your winch, pole, log hook setup! I have about 70 trees to cut and move and that setup sounds perfect!

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Here are the photos of the setup.
The winch setup is still rough, have not had a chance to paint the bracket.

Closeup of the winch. Simple used two angles back to back to provide stiffness and simple bolted them to the boom pole.

The pulleys. I picked them up some time back from Northern. The side opens up allowing insertion/removal.
Have two hooked up, one at the end and the second about halfway. If something is too heavy, can go halfway and have less leverage.

The Northern Logging hook. had to use a shackle since the hook came with a grab type hook.

 

[mustangnut98]

wait if it looked that crappy why did you buy it

 

[chupacabra]

I bought it because I needed it and I needed it that day. It worked for what I needed it to do that day. I didn't have the luxury of waiting. Does it bother you?

 

[Baby Grand]

I bought it because I needed it and I needed it that day. It worked for what I needed it to do that day. I didn't have the luxury of waiting. Does it bother you?

I bought my KK under the same constraints.
It has performed beyond my wildest expectations.

 

[Domush]

I bought it because I needed it and I needed it that day. It worked for what I needed it to do that day. I didn't have the luxury of waiting. Does it bother you?

I think the question was fair, obvious even, considering your original post was complaining about something you decided to buy anyway, yet gave no hint as to why you bought it anyway. Do obvious questions bother you?

 

[chupacabra]

Why should I give a reason for why I bought it in my original post? It was a statement of fact. But, as I see from your other posts, you are in the habit of stirring the ****.

To clarify why and how I bought it, I needed it, I saw the boom poles outside of Tractor Supply Company stacked together, one on top of the other,(spooned together). I went inside and bought one, two guys came out, unlocked the stacked boom poles, got the top one and loaded it into the back of my truck. I got home, took it out and as I was hooking it up I noticed how really cheap and shoddy the welding work was. Also how crummy the paint job was. I then decided to post on here. I wasn't expecting a King Kutter, but I also was not expecting something this County Line to be this bad. I had read all the reviews, as I usually do before purchasing something, as I am sure a lot of you do. So.............Thar she is. What say you now?

 

[Domush]

What's with the insta-hostility? As for other threads, I post facts without fluff. If people get offended there isn't much I can do about it. Look at those who get all irrational over simple questions if you want to find the stirrers.

My apologies for understanding why mustangnut asked his question. Your thread doesn't appear to be a review, so why you started it became a question. It isn't as though you asked a question, so..? You didn't list a pro/con list, just a bunch of things wrong with the specific one you bought. So, if it wasn't a review, what were you expecting for replies?

Cheap is cheaply made. It's how it works. Me, I'd rather buy a cheapy one and fix a weld (the paint wouldn't matter to me) than pay an extra $80-$100 on a nice one. It's just the trade-off we all make when we buy something. Better costs more, but cheap gets you by for as long as possible. So, you could even think of it as they had the cheap one in stock, and you didn't have to buy the expensive one just because it was the only one. I mean, my boom pole looks like crap, too. I don't think this is one of those things a manufacturer spends a whole lot of time on. Mine even has an iron pipe fortifying it in two places so it won't collapse, like it has already done a couple of times (only to the previous owner, luckily). They're cheap, but effective.

 

[Mudfarmer]

Bought one myself some months ago and as it sat, was extremely useful.
With my TC18 (no FEL) was able to move around cut trees, and some very large limestone rocks.
Sometimes the larger rocks would have to connect at the halfway point and still touched the ground to keep the front wheels on the ground.

Recently I added a 2000 Lb winch to it. Using some hook pulleys (sides open up) to route the cable, It has been even more useful. The winch has the power to slide the tractor (with the boom lowered) if the load is too great. Even at that, I have been able to pull cut brush out instead of moving it manually. Now with the addition of log hook, I even move an entire tree that was just cut down (No Trimming) to a better location to remove the limbs and save the log. Also used the winch to move rocks from the hillside cut (for the house foundation) from above.

I did the same thing except rather than mounting the winch I mounted a two inch receiver from harbor freight to the bottom of the boom. Thus I can use my winch mounted on a 2 inch reciver winch plate and move it onto my truck from the boom when I need it. Use the same set up as you have with a snatch block at the top of the boom. Works very well to help spool the winch in evenly. However, I am using a nine thousand pound winch. My country line boom doesn't notice two 15 foot logs being reeled in.
Mf

 

[chupacabra]

Good idea. Can you post a picture of your set up?

 

[Bob77064]

That boom pole looks like a good thing to have especially with a winch. Have to add that to my list of things that I "need"

 

[chupacabra]

Sorry, it just struck me the wrong way at the time. No bad intentions! Hug!!!

What's with the insta-hostility? As for other threads, I post facts without fluff. If people get offended there isn't much I can do about it. Look at those who get all irrational over simple questions if you want to find the stirrers.

My apologies for understanding why mustangnut asked his question. Your thread doesn't appear to be a review, so why you started it became a question. It isn't as though you asked a question, so..? You didn't list a pro/con list, just a bunch of things wrong with the specific one you bought. So, if it wasn't a review, what were you expecting for replies?

Cheap is cheaply made. It's how it works. Me, I'd rather buy a cheapy one and fix a weld (the paint wouldn't matter to me) than pay an extra $80-$100 on a nice one. It's just the trade-off we all make when we buy something. Better costs more, but cheap gets you by for as long as possible. So, you could even think of it as they had the cheap one in stock, and you didn't have to buy the expensive one just because it was the only one. I mean, my boom pole looks like crap, too. I don't think this is one of those things a manufacturer spends a whole lot of time on. Mine even has an iron pipe fortifying it in two places so it won't collapse, like it has already done a couple of times (only to the previous owner, luckily). They're cheap, but effective.