Pick 2 must have tractor implements.

It’s hard to answer, as everyone has different needs from their tractor. My best ideas based on the information you have shared:

Forks- makes life way easier and can be used for all sorts of things. If dealing with firewood logs all the time than grapples might win over forks. I move a bunch of logs for a couple of years with forks, before owning a grapple.

Back blade- looks like you are in snow country, they are great at scraping driveways and plowing the small storms on top of using them for spreading gravels. They take more time to master than a box blade. If spreading gravel, loam, is going to be a big part of your tractors duty, a box blade might be an easier choice.

rototiller - do you do much gardening? I’ve used ours to turn up the sod and loam before smoothing out the back lawn.

Snow Blower- how do you currently remove snow? I wouldn’t trade my blower for anything.

Our 4052R is setup this time of year for logging, grapples on front and skidding winch on back. Come spring it gets swapped over to chipper or seeder, on back, depending on usage. Summer is forks for moving seed, and stuff around, and usually blade or bush hog on back. I could go on with the setups, and that’s just one machine.
In the end it depends on your goals, what do you want to accomplish on the property with a tractor. Sit down and make a list of what you want to use the tractor for, and then look at the list and see what implements will do the most tasks, start there. You will be buying more implements as time goes on, it’s part of owning a tractor. I have been picking up implements a couple a year since I bought the tractors, we put up a 30’x30’ portable garage to store them in since we ran out of room in the 30’x40’ garage.

 

A tractor
Another tractor

All implements "came with" if my wife asks

 

I’m not going to count ballast box because to me it’s as integral to the sub compact tractors as the FEL. Play your cards right and it can double as a handy place to carry tools…

note: not my pictures… Also note the hitch receiver.





So with that out of the way forks and some sort of a grapple would be two attachments that I find the most handy. If I was buying a tractor new I would let it roll off the lot without that 3rd function installed.

 

Looks similar to my box. Titan brand. I added two pipes/tool holders and poured concrete as well. I also put in a clay flue where the sliding door is to use for chains, gloves, etc.

 

Never considered a land scape rake until a watched a video of someone using it to rake leaves, yard debris and such. Seemed like a handy low cost attachment.

 

sirbuildalot Forks are definitely on the radar. Love the front carry all one of those will be built shortly after getting set up.

Low cost clamp on or get the attachment for the FEL? I noticed no one has mentioned a stump bucket.

 

Personally I don’t care for the clamp on forks. They are cheaper but the real forks aren’t that expensive as attachments go. The clamp ons can damage your bucket, reduce visibility, and push the load out further reducing capacity.

 

I’ve never tried a stump bucket, but I’d think they’d work ok for small stumps.

 

glad you mentioned it… My buddy used a kitty litter bucket. I think he filled it with gravel until the concrete set. I guess great minds think alike.

 

He did a great job. I like the color scheme.

 

If it’s for spreading gravel, I’d have a York rake with tires. Get it close with the bucket and then rake it off.
A box blade would work better for ripping up hard ground with the tines and then taking the grade down.

And then a grapple/fork combo if there could only be 2. Going with a rake rather than a box blade probably leaves enough $ to buy forks and a grapple

 

Pallet Forks and box scraper!

 

sirbuildalot is that lead bricks in that back opening of the ballast box? If so how much weight?

Whomever posted a grapple pallet fork, does it open wide enough you can pick up a pallet of something like an ibc tote?

 

It's just some scrap pieces of steel. They're around 3/4" x 6" x maybe 14". Around 15-17 lbs a piece.

 

Though I have a lot of diff implements, I think if I was starting out, I’d want a set of QA pallet forks and a carry all for the back.
Then a Add a grapple from Green machine with an extra mount so I could switch the grapple thumb from bucket to forks as needed.
Carry all could be used for ballast. I carry about 400 lbs in mine in cement blocks a lot of the time.


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Excellent advice!

Ballast and pallet forks. Now the longer explanation.

1) do you have a truck and trailer
2) rental store nearby
3) can you weld
If yes to all three you need the following

Have tires filled with antifreeze/beet juice/etc

Wheel weights

Ballast for 3 point, I would aim for 60-75% of the operating capacity of your 3 point system. Needs to have storage for chains, saws and 2” receiver for trailer hitch.

On the cheap you can make/buy a carryall/3point pallet forks/hay bale spear to carry a pallet with 2-3 layers cinderblocks filled with sand/gravel/concrete then build a platform on top to carry all your stuff. Adjust the size and weight to fit your needs.

FEL bucket and pallet forks with SSQA

Rent anything else you need.

PS tractor equipment is worse than CAD!!!

 

1-yes
2-yes
3-no but I know a guy that has done some welding for me me recently, good work, fairly priced.

I'm leaning towards a ballast box, yard rake, pallet forks to start off with. I will build a carry all for the forks.

 

That's not necessarily true lol !

 

Number one is a grapple ! Number two is tough. I use the heck out of my three point backblade in the winter to snowplow..but it sits most of the summer.
But then from spring to winter the tiller stays on. We have lots of gardens and food plots....and it actually works to fix trails up too ! Doubles as a little over 500 lbs of ballast while grappling and moving dirt too !
So I guess..now that I typed it out...for me...the grapple and tiller are must haves !

 

Implement 1 *3 point blade.
Implement 2 *wife to operate implement 1