For many tractor tasks bucket hooks would serve about the same as a Three Point Hitch Boom Pole with the advantage that bucket hooks are always on the tractor. Photo #1. Field Cultivator (load) shipping weight ~~300 pounds. Cultipacker counterbalance 600 pounds.
You can LIFT to your FEL capacity.
But you should PULL prudently, changing load to rear/center or rear cross-drawbar before much force is applied, or you may separate FEL from tractor.
LINK:
Ken's Bolt on Grab Hooks <<Kubota Hooks>>
Your
L3430 is a two increment predecessor model to my
L3560. You will need Three Point Hitch counterbalance of at least 600 pounds, assuming loaded rear tires, for max FEL lifts.
I have air in my rear tires. For max FEL lifts I attach my 1,000 pound Disc Harrow. Since it extends w-a-y back, leverage increases its utility as counterbalance, at the price of maneuverability. Photos #2 + #3 from yesterday. ROPS folded because I was working under tree branches.
Saturated Oak trunk weighed perhaps 1,200 pounds.
For skidding logs a Boom Pole is not the best implement. The load is too far back, too high and the pole is subject to a transitory stress flexing. Safer a rear cross-drawbar with a "hanging tree" to facilitate trunk elevation. Photo #4.
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