Implements you regret buying

[teg]

For me it is the post hole digger, one of the few implements that I paid full price on but went in halves with another couple. ($200 ea.) It's done a dozen holes maybe and unless you plan to do many holes, it's not worth the time to mount it on the tractor. I can hand dig 4 holes faster than it takes to put on and remove the post hole digger...

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

I bought a new Rhino 160 rotary cutter about 7 years ago. At the time I had 3 acres of grassy field to cut and a brand new Kubota tractor. Of course I "needed" the brush hog. Just tack on the cost to the interest free tab, right?

So, 3 months later we moved to another place with lots of land but very little grass area. So, the new Rhino with about 10 hours on it has sit inside all this time; never hooked it up since. One of these days I'll sell it I suspect. Meantime, I just wash the dust off of it every once in a while, give it a squirt of grease, and occasionally even slap a little car polish on it, just to keep it new looking.

Go ahead and sell it so you can move where you'll need it. :laughing:

For me it is the post hole digger, one of the few implements that I paid full price on but went in halves with another couple. ($200 ea.) It's done a dozen holes maybe and unless you plan to do many holes, it's not worth the time to mount it on the tractor. I can hand dig 4 holes faster than it takes to put on and remove the post hole digger...

Agree, had a 3ph PH digger and sold it and bought the front SSQA hydraulic Landpride PH digger so I can just pull up to it and tilt and lock and hook up hoses and dig by myself with no help.

 

[EddieWalker]

Interesting thread!!!!

My biggest regret was the box blade. I bought it brand new with the tractor and spent hours and hours trying to smooth out trails, level piles of dirt with it, and fill in ditches. I'm sure it's just me, but I found that I can do more with the loader bucket dragging it backwards then I ever could with the box blade. After sitting for ten years, I traded it to a guy for some chickens, guineas, ducks and geese.

Maybe even worse was the landscape rake. It seemed like a great idea. Just drag it across the ground to pile up all the loose branches after clearing an area of land. I found that it fills up with debris in about 20 feet and then your done. I spent one day realizing it was a total waste of money. It sat for years until I cut it up and used the metal for other projects.

 

[jeff9366]

King Kutter Rotary Harrow, no longer produced.

Purchased for walking trail maintenance. A ground powered implement, Rotary Harrow's spinning was intermittent due to unevenness in ground, which a harrow is supposed to level.

After selling the Rotary Harrow, I roll trail with Cultipacker I use as everyday Three Point Hitch counterbalance. Occasionally even up trail surface and clear leaves and twigs with my Landscape Rake.

Rotary Harrows are frequently used for horse arena maintenance. Probably excellent for evening and aerating sand surfaces.


The marketplace sorts out useful from less useful implements over time.

 

[zoltanthegypsy]

Kubota-branded front suitcase weights and bracket for the BX24. Wanted it so I could balance the tiller with the loader off, and navigate some very tight spaces around my gardens. Expensive.

Bracket and weights aren't compatible with each other. After extensive modification they work but are such a PITA to swap on and off I never use them.

(Surprised to find bucket tooth bars on the list. I put mine on and won't ever remove it. Maybe it's a BX thing...)

Z.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Interesting thread!!!!

My biggest regret was the box blade. I bought it brand new with the tractor and spent hours and hours trying to smooth out trails, level piles of dirt with it, and fill in ditches. I'm sure it's just me, but I found that I can do more with the loader bucket dragging it backwards then I ever could with the box blade. After sitting for ten years, I traded it to a guy for some chickens, guineas, ducks and geese.

Maybe even worse was the landscape rake. It seemed like a great idea. Just drag it across the ground to pile up all the loose branches after clearing an area of land. I found that it fills up with debris in about 20 feet and then your done. I spent one day realizing it was a total waste of money. It sat for years until I cut it up and used the metal for other projects.

I totally agree on the landscape rake. I bought an 84" from TSC and had an additional 10% coupon. I had "convinced" myself that it would by just the thing to gather up small sticks and branches when I push over dead trees. Nope!

I even bought some gage wheels from Rural King, which did make it work better but, still not great. It still gathers up more dirt than sticks.

I need to find another fool to sell it to.

 

[teg]

....Surprised to find bucket tooth bars on the list...

That's the cool part of the thread... it's individual (personal) choices...

I could not be without my tooth bar, box blade or rake...

I did think of another implement but since I sold it a while ago, I forgot about it... I had to sell my tiller since I have one of the early "Standard" cheap "slipping PTO cams"... My pto was skipping every once and a while and the story of having to replace the old cams with the new square cams ($1000, 10 years ago) I decided to sell the tiller instead.

I get by with single plow and disk harrow...

 

[FTG-05]

My list:

- 6' Bushhog
- 6' Box blade
- 6' Rock Rake
- 6' Disc
- Ratchet Rake
- 10' grader blade

Anyone see any common attribute for the first four items. Yea, I listened to the "conventional" wisdom and the owner's manual and bought 6' implements. With my rear tires widened to their widest point, they sit 76" outside to outside. I used the Ratchet Rake once, then turned it into part of my weight block for my BB.

The 10' grader blade is all on me: After he loaded it and took my money, the seller (a farm store owner north of Florence, AL) tried to talk me out of it. I bought it anyway. Now I'm gong to replace it with a no name XD HD brand out of Newton, NC, from someone none of you guys have ever heard of before.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

My bucket.

I bought my tractor 7 months ago, as soon as I unloaded the tractor the bucket went into the barn and it's sat ever since, all my tractor tasks are done with front forks and a rear blade.

This summer it will get some use on re-graveling my driveway to the barn, after that I may throw some paint on it and put it back in the barn lol.

Edit: I do plan on buying a tooth bar for my bucket, I need to dig up sod to expand and make a gravel turn around by the barn, I figure a tooth bar will make it much easier, then back to the barn the bucket will go lmao. Any task I would use the bucket for in the future, a tooth bar would be useful over not having it.

 

[psvines]

For my BX2660, I bought a tiller for the garden and possibly other areas. The garden is only 20x30 and the tiller did a great job but was way too much effort for such a small area. Later, my neighbor gave me a small 2-cycle tiller for clearing snow on her driveway. Sold tiller.