.......and an hour later, smartly broke off the hood ornament, dagnabit.
My only advice is what you already know. Yes, you need a grapple. I put off buying mine for too long. Shoulda bought it the same day I bought the tractor. They’re handier than TWO pockets on a shirt. Even a light duty model with a couple minor mods will TRIPLE the usefulness of your tractor.
Agreed, unfortunately with a kid coming in November it is not likely to be up high on the $ I can spend list for quite some time. Thankfully this "job" is also not very high on the list either and was more of a try and make use of the trailer while I have it anyway. What I will probably do in the more near future is fabricate or buy and adapt a set of light duty forks. That'll be far less $ therefore more obtainable and somehat more practical than just the bucket alone. Alas I'm just happy to be able to pick things up and put them down with hydraulics at the moment thats mote then I've ever had in my 38 years
I agree with this statement 300%
It's my favorite attachment to use.
You have too many trailers, I can gladly take one off your hands when you decide to declutter
Congratulations! Daycare is $$$ so I feel your pain and hesitation to purchase a new attachment. I think? Kubota will let you finance land pride attachments if it helps.
Beautiful weather in MI today
If you have SSQA and don’t have a set of forks, they’re great. Honestly, sometimes I wonder if my grapple was worth the money when I could just use forks. Not a popular opinion around here! But I have two toddlers, and perhaps the money I spent on the grapple could have been better spent somewhere else.
Apologies, didn't finish my comment before hitting post, but yeah, agreed. Almost like we all got a 30% pay cut
The way I interpret that:
Unfortunately I dont have SSQA, mostly becuase the loader is "homemade" and bare bones, I didn't want to spend any extra $ on the fab work A. becuase honestly I couldn't even justify the money I did spend at the time and B. becuase I wanted to make sure the unit was going to accomplish what I designed it for, before I added any expense that was not completely nessacary, hence why the "bucket" is even made out of scrap, so far it is accomplishing everything that I wanted and exceeding my lift weight goals (which honestly scares me a little). At the end of the day I'm not sure a 2500$ b7100 with a 1200$ homemade loader will ever justify a multi thousand dollar grapple and SSQA setup even though it would make my life infinitely easier. my goal with this machine is a set of pin on forks (likely also homemade) and or a bigger material bucket for light loads. If I still have it in several years and it is still the only machine I have, I may consider adapting some kind of SSQA system but as of now the lemonade would likely cost more then the lemons in this case. Financing aside that's still spending money on a machine that may or may not be worth the investment and I have to weigh that very carefully. The big advantage being SSQA attachments is they can be transfered to a new machine some day
