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Originally Posted by Crowbob
You can get a tooth bar that clamps on the front of the loader and is effective for smoothing and ripping out undergrowth. They also make the loader a bit more capable moving dirt. The weight of the bar reduces the load capacity, however. Don't plan on digging very much with a SCUT loader.
Bolt-On hooks on the top of the loader bucket turns the Swiss Army knife into a hoist and also enables the load in the bucket to be securely lashed. Think lumber or posts. Around here, with any luck, you can get 10-yard dump trucks of free wood chips dumped iright in your driveway. A SCUT loader is designed exactly for the task of homeowners moving their piles of much around. And also for tilling an enormous truck garden, blowing out the driveway, for emergency power generation and for hauling the little camper around the place all summer long.
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Exactly the kinds of uses I'm looking at. Some of the steep parts of my yard (like around the old horse-riding ring), I'd like to terrace with railroad ties and fill in with something I don't have to maintain. The wife wants to build a fire pit/outdoor sitting area in the back - a load of pea gravel dumped in my driveway could be moved around with the tractor. Same with gravel for the chicken/barn area and mulch for other areas. Even stupid stuff like - I have a wood stove in the basement and a wood-burning insert in the den. There is a large, brick firewood storage area in the basement (which has drive-in garage door access). All of my firewood is up a hill and on the other side of the house. This past winter I was hauling wheelbarrow loads of firewood all the way around the house to the basement. With a tractor, I'd just load up the bucket and drive it around.
Silly stuff, but everyone I have talked to said that once you own a tractor you find all kinds of uses for it that you never would have thought of...
I am liking the Kubota stuff, too. A BX2380 or 2680 would be awesome.