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You buy a tractor for its versatility. When you have work that needs to be done, you need one piece of equipment to do it all. With a few interchangeable attachments, you can transform your compact tractor into a year-round multiuse workhorse ready to remove snow, collect debris, move material, and improve roads.
At Green Tractors, we’re your partner in ensuring that you get the most out of your machine. Though attachments are designed for specific uses, they can be used in other capacities, making your tractor versatile and useful throughout the year. This guide will help you find the best multiuse compact tractor attachment for your needs.
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Enduring the Elements: Compact Tractors With an All-Weather Cab
First, let’s take a step back. Your tractor can’t work without you, so protecting yourself from the elements means that your tractor has even fewer limits. A cab can keep you covered from the rain, letting you work even during a downpour. When winter comes, protecting yourself from bone-chilling cold means that you can remove snow without inhibition. In the heat of the summer, some perpetual shade will keep you comfortable throughout long work sessions, day after day.
Beat Back Winter With Snow Removal Compact Tractor Attachments
In Canada, you can count on snowfall. With the right attachments, you can depend on your compact tractor to help remove that snow, no matter how much there is. Our snow removal attachments come in a variety of configurations, including:
- Front- and rear-facing snow blowers
- Snow pushes
- Rotary brooms
- Front blades
Snow blowers, snow pushes, rotary booms, and front blades come in different sizes, so if you have a large area of snow to clear, or if you just want to remove snow quickly, a larger size may be worth investing in.
Multi-season Use of Snow Removal Attachments
Even better, some of these attachments can do more than remove snow. Rotary brooms, typically used to remove up to two inches of snow, can clear dirt and leaves from your lawn or large concrete platforms.
Front blades, equipped with replaceable cutting edges, push material such as dirt, sand, manure, and gravel. So, in addition to clearing snow, a front blade can help you grade a gravel road or clean out your barn.
When you need to clean up your property after autumn leaves fall, a snowblower can help you quickly knock out leaf cleanup. Additionally, it’s good practice each season to pull out your snow blower before the snow hits to ensure everything is working properly.
The Multitasking Tool: Front-End Loader Compact Tractor Attachments
A front-end loader compact tractor attachment is used to move material across your property. You have a tractor so you can take care of projects yourself, and a front-end loader attachment is among the most versatile: You can use it to dig, grade, and move. Working on a landscaping project? You can use a front-end loader to remove material and then move it from the site. In a pinch, the bucket can be tilted down to smooth out a worse-for-wear gravel road. Even further, it can be used to remove snow from your driveway.
Repair Old Roads or Blaze New Trails With a Box Blade
Do you have dirt or gravel roads to maintain? Box blades are the perfect attachment to work through road repairs and improvements. Additionally, they can assist in creating new paths across your property. Place the scarifier blades at a lower setting so they penetrate the ground, loosen compacted material, and tear up roots. After that, raise the scarifier blades to a higher setting and glide the box blade across the new path to grade it into a smooth road. Then the box blade can distribute material across the path, creating a smooth pathway.
While box blades excel at evenly distributing dirt and gravel, they can do much more than that. They can be used any time you need to level, backfill, grade, or otherwise spread material. A box blade is an excellent multiuse solution, making it the perfect year-round tool for your tractor.
Our box blades attach with our three-point hitch, a universal hitch that allows your compact tractor to easily attach to box blades, rear blades, rotary tillers, and rotary cutters.
Backhoes Do More Than Dig Ditches
A backhoe attachment is another versatile tool that makes your tractor even more useful. Backhoes are typically used to excavate any material with precision. For example, they’re great at digging out footers for concrete placement and ditches to control and direct excess water flow. Have a large- or small-scale landscaping project? Use a backhoe to remove unwanted landscape features like tree stumps and excavate and level material to make room for crops, flower gardens, or newly planted trees. Similarly, a backhoe can be used to tamp material, creating a firm foundation for paving stones.
Backhoe buckets come in a few sizes, so think about what uses you anticipate and determine which size is the best fit for you. Not all our backhoe attachment models are compatible with the use of cabs, so when considering a backhoe, make sure that your tractor configuration and backhoe attachment are compatible.
Green Tractors Is Here to Help
Across our nine Green Tractors locations, our friendly and knowledgeable staff is readily available to help you find the compact tractor attachments that will best help you get maximum year-round use of your equipment. Contact us or visit us in-store today to explore the attachments that best fit your needs and budget.
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