Most useful implements?

[Xfaxman]

What have you guys found REALLY useful? Especially something you might not think about.

A receiver hitch: https://omni-mfg.com/OMNI-Combo-3-point-Trailer-Hitch-Imatch-Compatible-P320197.aspx

With a Carry-All in the top receiver:

Pulling a trailer with the gooseneck ball in the top receiver:

 

[90cummins]

Very nice versatile design
90cummins

 

[90cummins]

I think I’ll add a vertical 2” receiver to mine.
I like the removable carryall idea.
90cummins

 

[mwemaxxowner]

I don't have any gooseneck or fifth wheel trailers any more, but that's awesome!

 

[Xfaxman]

The carryall also has a horizontal tube that didn't show above:

It gets used a lot on the EV's front receiver hitch:

And some other receiver tube things:

 

[mwemaxxowner]

I may or may not have just placed an order for a Wicked48! Wooo!

 

[mo1]

The implement I have that I easily have spent more hours running than all of the rest combined would be the rotary cutter.

The implement that I would say saves the most frustration would be loader-mounted pallet forks. It is so much handier to be able to get forks under an object and lift it compared to hooking a chain over a loader bucket and trying to keep whatever you are picking up from spinning, tipping, or smacking the front of the tractor when it is lifted like I did growing up. Shoot, loaders were called "buckets" as that's about all you ever saw on one until both round bales and loader quick-attach setups became common.

 

[Vigo327]

Im 37 and it seems like i've been seeing round bales my entire life (didn't grow up on a farm, admittedly). I never stopped to consider just when they came into being.

I'm in the planning/parts collection stage of building forks and SSQA setup for my Kubota B8200. Hopefully it will be one of my most used 'implements' when done.

 

[mo1]

Im 37 and it seems like i've been seeing round bales my entire life (didn't grow up on a farm, admittedly). I never stopped to consider just when they came into being.

I'm in the planning/parts collection stage of building forks and SSQA setup for my Kubota B8200. Hopefully it will be one of my most used 'implements' when done.

Modern type large round bales came into being in the '70s but they weren't very common at least in my area until some time in the '90s. This area always has had quite a few cattle, but in the past there were a fair number of dairy operations, hogs, less-than-CAFO-scale poultry, and row crops. Today it's nearly all just beef cattle as most everything else has gone away. There is thus a whole lot more dry hay being put up and fed compared to before and small squares are not practical for most any more. It used to be common to see somebody else baling small squares when I was a kid, I don't think I've seen anybody else actually putting up small squares since I was a teenager. It's round bales with a small handful chopping silage, some of which also gets round baled and wrapped as baleage. I will say the first time I "put up" round bales by simply spearing them with a bale spear, driving them to a field edge, and putting them on the ground and calling it good, it felt like cheating compared to unloading a hay rack and stacking small squares to the rafters in a 110 degree hay barn.

Large square bales have been around for a little while but certainly are not popular here as I very rarely see them. Even on semis on the highway, it's 98% round bales.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Large square bales have been around for a little while but certainly are not popular here as I very rarely see them. Even on semis on the highway, it's 98% round bales.

Large square bales are more popular in the PNW because of the export market. They take a 1000 lb. square bale, mash it to 1/3 the original volume with a high pressure press, then pack the results into shipping containers. There is a big export market for wheat straw and grass straw, not crops you grow a lot of in Missouri. I think there may be some shipped down the Big Muddy to the Middle East, but shipments to East Asia head right across the Pacific.