The Best Home-Built Add-Ons of 2018: Did You Make the List?

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Doing something fun this month. I compiled a list of what I felt are the best home-built add-ons of the first half of 2018, based on threads posted here. Items had to be posted in 2018 (though a couple were probably made earlier, they were posted at some point this year either as a thread or a reply) and had to be more of an add-on than a fully functional attachment (so for example if you built a box scraper from scratch that wouldn't be on this list).

So yes I know that 2018 still has five months to go, but I figure this is kind of a test run for this format of gallery + voting. I'm thinking I'll re-do this list at the end of the year with the top 20 and maybe go back in time and create an all-time list too. It was a lot of fun to put the list together and see what everybody put together just this year so I'm sure digging through the entire forum will be a blast and I'll need your help with that one.

Check out the list here: The Best Home-Built Tractor Add-Ons of 218, Ranked - TractorByNet

Did you make the list?

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I have a hedge row that is about 250 feet long and it takes me several days every year to trim it with an electric hedge trimmer. I decided to build a man sized hedge trimmer for my Kioti. I went looking for a sickle bar for a Cub and found one. I sand blasted it and painted it then started designing a mount and drive system for it. I bought a hydraulic motor and machined an eccentric flywheel. I took it out for a test drive and it now takes me less than an hour to trim the entire hedge row. IMG_0223.jpgIMG_0224.jpgIMG_0217.jpgIMG_0199.jpg Man Sized Hedge Trimmer - YouTube
 
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I have a hedge row that is about 250 feet long and it takes me several days every year to trim it with an electric hedge trimmer. I decided to build a man sized hedge trimmer for my Kioti. I went looking for a sickle bar for a Cub and found one. I sand blasted it and painted it then started designing a mount and drive system for it. I bought a hydraulic motor and machined an eccentric flywheel. I took it out for a test drive and it now takes me less than an hour to trim the entire hedge row. View attachment 564475View attachment 564476View attachment 564477View attachment 564478

Lot of work to build, but I sure like it !!
 

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