Your most used/valuable attachment?

[Marveltone]

Even though it's easily removed, my grapple (the Thumb) never comes off my bucket, as I'm always grabbing things with it. If I'm mowing trails and find a tree across the path, which happens often, I can move it. I've learned that since it opens almost vertically, I can use it as a back support for moving large items, like refrigerators, freezers, furnaces, etc. Just strap the item to the open thumb with a ratchet strap. It stays put. Brush piles and tree trimmings are a also piece of cake. I've even cobbled together a system to fasten a spool for fencing wire to it. This makes fencing so much easier.

After the Thumb, I would have a hard time deciding what gets the most use. Maybe the rotary cutter. I'm constantly mowing trails, ditches, and firebreaks with the RC, but when I'm not, the box blade goes on with the suitcase weights as a ballast box. It also doubles as my log skidder. Sometimes I even move dirt and gravel with it!

Of course, I can't imagine going through an entire winter without my trusty snow blower. November through March (sometimes longer) is pretty much exclusively snow blower season.

Does a Quick Attach count? :confused3:

 

[Sprinklerman]

For making money , aerator , then rotary cutter, ( I am in the suburbs very few tractors around lots of skid steers) the box scraper , then york rake and tiller . I do the best with the aerators , I have a 4 ft and a 6 ft , I can aerate all day where the guys running behind the little walk behinds are worn out by lunch . I aerated eight 3/4 to 1 acre lawns today , fert and seed . $ 200 and up for each lawn .

 

[Ibow]

Thanks again for all the replies. Sure seems like people like those grapple hooks!

 

[Ibow]

For making money , aerator , then rotary cutter, ( I am in the suburbs very few tractors around lots of skid steers) the box scraper , then york rake and tiller . I do the best with the aerators , I have a 4 ft and a 6 ft , I can aerate all day where the guys running behind the little walk behinds are worn out by lunch . I aerated eight 3/4 to 1 acre lawns today , fert and seed . $ 200 and up for each lawn .

Thanks Sprinklerman... that was VERY helpful. As I mentioned, I want to do a little work with my JD. Again, not to make a living but just to make a few bucks for spending. Thanks for your post.

 

[vtsnowedin]

A much shorter list would be attachments we didn't like.
Or perhaps ones that work but get little use after a one time project gets completed.

 

[Looking4new]

The most used is my snow blower.
I swing my back blade to the side and angle it to shelf back the snow banks part way through the winter. It works, just not as good as a wing plow would.

 

[bindian]

Thanks Brandi. Do you have a pict of the grader blade for your backhoe?

Yes I do.................
hugs, Brandi

 

[Sodo]

That would do it! Do you try to keep it "even", or just "go at it"?

 

[IslandTractor]

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hugs, Brandi

Great attachment for the backhoe.

This is my favorite backhoe attachment:



A ripper makes very quick work of medium sized trees that are too big to just push over with a grapple and where chainsawing would leave a stump that needs digging out. Ripping the roots and pushing the tree over leaves a very small scar and no stump. Easy peasy. Ten or so minutes per tree up to about six inches in diameter including moving them to a pile. Bigger trees possible too but usually require moving the BH a couple of times to rip more roots.

 

[vtsnowedin]

That has a Jurassic Park quality to it.