Hi Guys:
I've also been investigating a QuickSpade and haven't decided whether to buy. The product seems like a poor-boy's backhoe. I've appreciated your comments. PS - I don't work for the manufacturer or any of the distributors. Just a guy with a tractor and the need to remove a woods full of invasive buckthorn saplings.
Here's a few of my comments, questions & thoughts:
dirt ditch - Thanks for the head's-up about "infiltrators". I suspected it would be a good way to push a product, if you were a little unscrupulous.
RW6298 - Thanks for the recommendation of using a nylon strap rather than chain to secure the spade. Also, do I understand correctly that you work for Paumco, the manufacturer? If so, do you know how many of the QuickSpades get returned by unsatisfied customers, and whether you can return it
after having tried is and scuffed up the paint, etc?
Luremaker - For pulling trees (saplings), I just bought a "pallet puller scissor clamp" that I hope will help me clear the bigger invasive buckthorn saplings on my five acres of woods. Rated for up to 1,000lbs and my FEL only has about 500lbs lift, so I've got that going for me.
It seems perfect and I'll get back to y'all after I try it when the ground dries up enough to travel through the woods without rutting everything up. I've got a trailer ball attached to the lower plate of my FEL and this will fit over it. About $75 delivered. (PS - I don't work for these guys either. Matter of fact, I don't work, period. Some call it retirement, I call it "self unemployed".
You can find it at ebay -
PALLET PULLING SCISSOR CLAMP ATTACHMENT PULLING TOOL | eBay
That's all for comments and questions. Thanks for listening and responding.
Dave
2007 Kubota
B7800 FEL & various attachments all borrowed from neighbors.
