Now for the attachments...

[Bronco82]

After months and months, if not years of browsing, yesterday while at home, I heard a vehicle pull in, and my wife made me read my birthday/christmas card, and then said, turn around and look out the window. I look out the window only to see a brand new B2650 getting dropped off in my driveway.

Now I no longer have to browse tractors for sale, but attachments. In no particular order, I am hoping to acquire:
- Bush Hog
- Root Grapple
- Snowblower
- Box Blade
- Rear Ballast

I haven't done a search of tips and tricks to make life easier with attachments, and must haves, or budget modifications yet, but give it time. It hasn't even been 24 hours yet.

And pictures or it didn't happen, so hopefully this works.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

Congratulations on finding a wife like that. Nice tractor.

 

[jeff9366]

Add a Ratchet Rake bucket attachment to that list.

VIDEOS: RATCHET RAKE - YouTube


Consider a Field Cultivator in lieu of a root grapple. You can exert more raking power pulling via the Three Point Hitch at the rear, relative to the FEL at the front. Dirt Dog makes a three-shank Field Cultivator.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/339095-dirt-dog-all-purpose-plow.html?highlight=


N I C E ~ T R A C T O R

 

[PJSprog]

Congrats, Bronco82 ... on the tractor and the wife! Very nice. :cool2:

 

[JWR]

Wow ! Now THAT is a gift ! Of course it depends entirely on what your property is like, how much time you spend on the machine, and what your primary tasks are. None of us out here know those things. But that doesn't stop us from fantasizing being in your shoes and suggesting some goodies.

First thing is you will need some hydraulic system additions to handle a root grapple or anything else involving remote cylinders. I'd shop around for getting 2 remotes installed. Not cheap. The rest of the attachments you listed do not require any mods or special things unless you get fancy with the snowblower. As you may know, Kubota is connected to Landpride now for rotary cutters, etc. and most Kubota dealers sell them in orange. I like Bush Hog for rotary cutters but Landpride is solid. Kodiak is good too. There are just zillions of choices for a good bush hog. I think a 5ft hog is best for that size tractor. In my view 6ft is too big for comfortable use on that size tractor. [I have 2 tractors in same size range as your B2650. I use a 4ft hog on one because of tight spaces and a 5ft hog on the other one where I have open spaces. It handles either one very well.]
If you do install remotes, one of the handiest things I have picked up in years is the hydraulic top link. That is worth it's weight in gold with a box blade as it prevents you getting on and off so much to change angles or tang settings. It will also be handy to make "from the seat" adjustments even with the bush hog and anything you put on the rear. It is a few hundred $ and it does mean you had to have the remotes first. Do you have grass to cut ? If so that means belly versus 3pt styles to figure out. If you are not doing "fine quality city lawns" you may be surprised what a good job a sharp bladed bush hog will do on grass. Best of luck with your enviable project !

 

[Thomas]

You forgot landscape rake congrats on your new investment. :thumbsup:

 

[oldballs]

Usually a Box Blade will suffice for Rear Ballast as opposed to a dedicated implement.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Usually a Box Blade will suffice for Rear Ballast as opposed to a dedicated implement.

Beat me to this so yes boxblade is perfect rear ballast and will also do various jobs. Also as mentioned before a RatchetRake. A front grapple, which I don't have but am looking appears to be fun and useful for picking up stuff. A landscape rake will do yard maintenance but the RatchetRake is the one I kept and the Landscape rake is the one I sold. A tiller is good for a garden. Forks are handy and the ones that attach to bucket are cheaper but some aggravation by sort of twisting around but lift fine, I'm now looking at a bar that goes between forks and sure it will help with my issues with clamp on forks.
Here is a site where you can spend hours watching videos showing attachments working, reasonable prices and a NC free delivery up to 1000 miles company.
Tractor Attachments And Skid Steer Attachments For Any Tractor Or Skid Steer

 

[RaydaKub]

My wife was all in favor of getting a tractor, but wow, to have one go sign the check for you and arrange delivery? Congrats on all fronts!

 

[Blondie70]

Congrats to you and happy birthday too !!!!!

 

[WoodChuckDad]

My wife was all in favor of getting a tractor, but wow, to have one go sign the check for you and arrange delivery? Congrats on all fronts!

This!

 

[lennyzx11]

I went with the piranha tooth bar instead of the ratchet rake. It turned the bucket into a digging machine.
Mentioned already. The box blade will be a good ballast box. I added a receiver hitch to mine and leave it on most of the time. And adding weight are easy for even more. One guy uses his ratchet rake as weight even.
A harbor freight quick hitch makes swapping implements a "don't even get off the tractor" experience. Catch it for 89 bucks on a sale or a coupon all the time.
I got the EA grapple. You won't believe the things you'll come up with for that. It's usually on the front and a land pride box blade on the back.
Mine came with a box blade and rotary cutter as a package deal. I've since bought used a rear blade, rear scoop(also good for ballast or carry all plus cheap!) a finish mower. Clamp on forks(rather had got a regular quick attach forks in retrospect though) receiver hitch adaptor on the three point(mine is carried on the quick hitch).
And a flail mower as an ongoing project because of the traffic here on TBN. I didn't even know what they were.
Attachments get outta hand quick I think so do your research and ask the guys here for advice before spending your bucks.

 

[GregP27]

Does you wife have a sister who is unmarried?

 

[Bronco82]

Thanks folks, I really did luck out, and it surprised the heck outta me. I guess mentioning tractors for sale for the past four years finally paid off.

I picked up a 5' rear blade off a coworker for use over the winter to maintain the driveway, which, after my first attempt, is going to take a lot more practice. This is my first time dealing with anything with a 3 point hitch, so I just hooked up the rear blade and used it as was. Needless to say, after I scraped up quite a bit of gravel, I youtubed it, and ended up shortening the lifting arm, and lengthened the top link and now it sits a little more straight and I think will be a lot more better resulting in less gravel scraping.

I really appreciate the suggestions on attachments and attachment sizing.

I love the functionality of a grapple, but the cost for a new one kinda puts a damper on the idea of that purchase anytime in the near future. Maybe a set of adjustable quick attach forks (if there is such a thing) will be something a little more budget friendly and I can just scoop under the brush, and wrap a chain or rope around it to move it across the field to dump it. If they are adjustable, it would also allow for me to move them closer together to use it to lift rocks and logs out and move them as well.
I have browsed ratchet rake and tooth bar bucket attachments and they both look great with different purposes for each. When checking out the ratchet rake, I came across the rip and dig, which also looks great and provides much more digging ability.

I have a JD D140 mower, so I won't be using the tractor for fine lawn mowing, strictly bush hog the back field and trails, so that's one less attachment I have to worry about purchasing.

 

[Fallon]

Palletforks.com (a.k.a Titan attachments, a TBN sponsor) is about as cheap as you will find. Not always the highest quality, but good bang for the buck.

My old forks from them ran off with my old tractor. Got new ones from them as well. Have the frame & part of the bale spear. The actual forks & rest of the spear haven't made it yet. Slightly annoyed with the slow shipping this go, but it's not that bad.