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Neil from Messick's here.
I could do a quick explanation for you today
of the top five implements
that are typically sold with the compact tractor.
Tractors themselves are after all tool carriers
and most or every tractor is sold with at least two or more implements.
We're going to show you some of the most common ones
that are typically sold with new machines.
Far and away the most popular attachment
that's sold with the compact tractor is a loader.
For us, around 90% of the machines that we've sell
go out with one of these things hanging off the front.
More and more we're also selling our loaders
with skid steer couplers on the front
making it even more versatile attachment
where you can remove your bucket
and put on pound forks or snow plows
and those kinds of things onto the end of the loader.
Anybody that owns one of these things
will tell you that once you have it on your property
you will find all kinds of things to do with it
that you've never thought of before.
Loaders are typically used for in a moving dirt material,
snow and those kinds of things
but it's also just having a better wheelbarrow
around your property.
You'll find all kinds of things
that you can lift and move and manipulate with a loader.
Like I said, most of the time for us it's around 90 %
of our machines are going to go out
with that loader attached to them.
By far that's the most popular attachment that we sell.
The second most popular implement that we sell
is by far a finished mower.
Most of the time, our most tractors
we're selling with mount mowers.
These are all 60-inch models that are going to go on the bottom
of a convertible B or BX model
and typically we sell the mid mount
because it's a little bit easier to use.
When you're sitting in the seat of your tractor
you can easily look down and see the sides of your deck
making it easier to trim up against things
than a finish mower n the back of the tractor.
Either way, there's a way to get your finished mowing done.
Larger machines typically finish mowers on the back
and are little bit more economical
but finish mowing is a really popular application for your tractor.
It gives you a way to maintain the lawns around your home
and buildings and those kinds of things.
Rotary cutters are going to be our third most popular implement.
Rotary cutters are going to be mowers much like the finished mower
was but really geared towards much more rugged applications.
If you have a field or a pasture to mow
or trails to maintain or woods to clear,
a rotary cutter is going to give you much heavier blades
and heavier construction that's made to crash
through those heavier more demanding conditions.
It will not give you a smooth of a finished cut,
it's what a finished mower does,
really made just to knock things down
and kick them out the back
but a really, really useful attachment for maintaining your property.
If you compare the blade on a rotary cutter versus
the blade on a finished mower
you can clearly see the difference of them.
They're both called mowers
but the application couldn't be more different.
On the underside of the machine here this dish is called a stump jumper.
If you come up and you hit a rock or stump or something,
this curved piece right here is made to ride up
and over top of that obstruction
where a finish mower is going to have a much more exposed
spindle on the bottom side down here.
You can also notice the back of these blades,
rotary cutter blades are much, much heavier.
Typically able to chew up things from two inches to three inches
around depending on the model
and these heavy cast blades have a lot more mass
and a lot more inertia as they're spinning now,
not spinning nearly as fast which is part of the reason
you're not going to get the kind of cut
that you get from a finished mower
but a blade like this is able to cut and chew up things
that would really break and damage a finished mower over time.
We see a lot of customers taking mowers
and trying to do things with them that they shouldn't.
Just keep in mind the applications for these things
that are made for
and the significant difference is in their construction.
Running these things and
in situations that are not made for
is either going to give you poor quality cuts
or really shorten the life of the implement.
As we get further down the list here
we're going see more regional differences in some of these implements.
For us here we have a lot of people who are gardening
or having food plots for animals and those kinds of things
and so, therefore, we sell a lot of rototillers.
Within the tillers, there's two different types of
forward tine and a reverse tine.
Typically the reverse tine is better for somebody
looking for a really nice finish at the end
and doesn't have very rocky soil.
The reverse tine tiller will pull itself down
and finish your seedbed a lot more nicely
but if you're going into really rocky conditions
or a virgin soil that hasn't been turned before,
a forward tine tiller is going to perform
a little bit better for you.
If you're a food plot guy for instance
and you're going to turn some soil out and the woods somewhere
to plant some stuff down for your deer,
a forward tine tiller is probably the right choice for you.
If you're a dedicated gardener
reverse tine is probably going to do a better job.
For us here in the Northeast we sell a lot of snowblowers
with our tractors now
to go out and clear some of the significant snows
that we get off of our driveways and stuff in the wintertime.
You typically want to know that snowblowers
when they start to get to this size,
don't work really well on light snows.
If you get the two or three inches snowfall
you really have to get enough snow buildup in front of the snowblower
and pulled back into the impeller
before it's going to properly start to clear it off of your driveway.
Oftentimes we like to see when somebody is buying a snow blower
it's also paired with a front lake
or a front loader or another attachment
to take care of some of those light snow falls as well
where these things are really great and very efficient
for the times that we really get hit in the snowed under.
Buying a compact tractor is exciting
for a lot of different reasons.
For that initial purchase to get your mowing
and loader work done and those kinds of things
but you're quickly going to find as you come into
additional tasks around your home or properties
that there's going to be an attachment
to do just about every job that you can come up with.
If you're in the need for any attachments for your equipment,
we have a lot of them listed online on our website
and we're glad to help you over the phone too.
You can check us out at www.messicks.com
or call us at 800-222-33-73.
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