Forks Need attachment advice for moving brush piles

[jabelding]

Save your money for a grapple. I messed around with forks for 2 years, now that I have the grapple I would never go back for moving log and brush. Forks are great for something on a pallet.

 

[teg]

Save your money for a grapple....

Ditto!!! Even if it's just a Greens Machine... Shop Online added to your bucket!

 

[airbiscuit]

If you have SSQA mounts on the loader, then you have lots of options. I bought the Titan economy forks and I really like them. They are $280, and are often on sale for around $250. I had some old angle iron laying around so I made some debris forks to bolt on.

 

[airbiscuit]

Here is the poor man's version ...

 

[Deere Dude]

Which ones

They are quick attach 48" forks. I forget the brand but put in a couple pins they are on. Rated for 4-5000.

 

[lpigott]

You can move amazing amounts of brush by just pushing if with your bucket. The work I accomplished doing that with my lil BX with just the FEL and a box blade after hurricane Katrina was astonishing and made several people I know go buy a BX after witnessing it.

 

[katoomed00]

You can move amazing amounts of brush by just pushing if with your bucket. The work I accomplished doing that with my lil BX with just the FEL and a box blade after hurricane Katrina was astonishing and made several people I know go buy a BX after witnessing it.

Agree, with my little bx I was able to push brush piles for several hundred feet, it took a little re-positioning during the process, also I'm on flat land.
You would be amazed how much of the brush interlocks together and what little loss you have while pushing.
Also purchase an inexpensive 72" grapple off Ebay for my T503 and put together my own diverter valve setup, life is so much easier and faster.

 

[Phillip w]

Don't know how big the piles, can you burn them where they sit??? A 30 hp tractor will push quits a bit if the pile are not to big. (Keep in mind if you try that, your tractor is not a dozer) I cheat, I got a big en ought tractor/loader that if I weight it down, i can push like a small dozer. I've pushed small trees (6 in diameter) brush, piles of dirt and rock and what not. Just keep it out in front of me. Your not going to have this luxury with a 30 hp tractor.

 

[hslogger]

I found that my wooden fork extensions come in real handy moving brush and limbs. I can stack on there by hand or I can go underneath.
It works out super well for me if I am loading up some stuff to take to my chipper pile. I dump it in a way where the brush isn't compacted and easy to hand load into my chipper.

 

[plumbstraight]

I picked up a set of used skidsteer grapples for a couple hundred. I don't take them off and my bucket is sitting getting rusty. Of course if I am only moving dirt or gravel I will make a change, but that grapple works well. Didn't take much at all to modify it for my JD.