Most profitable attachments for a tractor business?

ErikVann · Jul 17, 2015

Hello all,
I am curious to know what you have found to be your most profitable attachments, if you are in the business of doing tractor work. I realize many people say that their grapples are the best purchase they have made but I don't think that is from a return on investment perspective. Maybe it is. Assuming you have a truck and trailer to move with, lets exclude dedicated farm implements like hay equipment and choppers etc.

From a services for hire perspective what implement keeps you the busiest? What implement pays the most per hour? Which ones have the best ROI? If it is too specific to name an implement lets hear what type of service you are most profitable with: Landscaping, driveway installation/maintenance, mowing, tiling, clearing and clean up, low impact logging Etc.
Very interested to hear your answers.

GreatWhitehunter · Jul 17, 2015

I'd say a brush hog is at the top of the list.

Matt

Sprinklerman · Jul 17, 2015

The best ROI are my aerators , second would be the brush hog . I do irrigation , but up sell the tractor work . I can hit 2K in a day just aerating using $ 200 worth of seed .

rustyshakelford · Jul 17, 2015

Sprinklerman said:
The best ROI are my aerators , second would be the brush hog . I do irrigation , but up sell the tractor work . I can hit 2K in a day just aerating using $ 200 worth of seed .

I'm interested....go on....

Brett

STx · Jul 17, 2015

Brush hog, box blade and disc; in that order.

MESSMAKER · Jul 17, 2015

Bushog then front end loader, then tiller, then boxblade. Bushog makes me about 90% of all cash.

ErikVann · Jul 18, 2015

I would say the same for myself, field mowing seems to be the most frequently called for implement. Driveway and landscaping jobs are more lucrative though. Reselling gravel and lower operating costs for those type jobs make them the most profitable. And frankly more fun than mowing.
I haven't done much tilling for hire but am curious to know how people make out on there investment in a tiller.

Sprinkler man I too am curious about the aerator work and why it seems to be so profitable.

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