4 Useful Mini Skid Steer Attachments for Agricultural Land Management
Posted by Lee Padgett on 14th Dec 2022
Regardless of whether you have a farm or just a large plot of land that you like to manage for crops, the right skid steer or mini skid steer attachments can go a long way toward making grueling land husbandry a lot easier.
With these mini skid steer attachments, you’ll be able to vastly improve your output and efficiency each season.
Brush Cutters/Articulating Brush Cutters
If you’re just starting out and need to clear a lot of overgrown land very quickly, then a brush cutter or an articulating brush cutter attachment is tops.
The cutaway design of our mini skid steer brush cutters is quick, efficient, and effective and can take on more than just grass, weeds, and briars. It can cut woody vegetation up to 2” thick, so even if you’ve got a few years of saplings laying between you and a freshly plowed field, our brush cutter attachments can make the grade.
Our mini skid steer brush cutter attachments also feature duel-edge cutting blades which improve efficiency and reduce maintenance costs, as well as a pressure relief valve that protects the hydraulic motor.
These are the first attachments you’ll need to clear land prior to turning over a field for planting. (If you’re clearing wooded lots for the first time, please see our tree saw and tree shear attachments.)
Moreover, these attachments can come in handy for clearing overgrown fields after a season or two of laying fallow.
Mini Skid Steer Soil Conditioners
After you clear all the brush, thorns, and woody vegetation, the next thing you’ll need to be ready for is to till and mill the soil. Our mini skid steer soil conditioners are ideal for this application and are highly specialized.
We offer both manual and hydraulic angle mini skid steer soil conditioners that are powerful, practical, and efficient.
They offer great maneuverability and can work in tight areas thanks to their adjustable end plates, causing minimal turf damage even when repairing trenches. They can till and mill the soil quickly thanks to their pure carbide teeth and leave an even, level, uniform, dimpled seed bed in their wake.
Our mini skid steer soil conditioners feature low-profile frames that offer excellent visibility and are equipped with large-diameter rotors that pulverize the soil faster and more efficiently than ordinary tillers.
As it tills, the counter-rotating rotor moves soil ahead of it, filling low areas and evening out high areas. They’re perfect for soil conditioning, turf renovation, reseeding, and backfilling trenches.
Mini Skid Steer Augers
With cleared land and conditioned seedbeds, the next thing you need to do is plant. If you’re planting shrubs or trees, or other transplants (that is, not starting from seed) then a mini skid steer auger attachment can speed up the process.
Our mini skid steer augers are compatible with a wide range of auger bits that range in diameter; we also carry mini skid steer auger drive extensions; although in most instances that won’t be necessary for planting.
Either way, our auger attachments save time, money, and labor over manually digging holes prior to transplanting, and can outpace an entire team in a matter of minutes.
Tree Spades
Last but not least, for those that need to plant a lot of trees quickly and efficiently, our mini skid steer tree spade attachments are worth their weight in gold (which is saying something because they’re not small).
If you have a tree spade, you can actually skip the auger attachment. The tree spade attachment can do the digging and the transplanting. It’s the perfect all-in-one attachment.
They’re fast, save labor and time, and can make quick work of uprooting small existing trees, digging holes for new planting, and transplanting new ones. This can all be accomplished without requiring the operator to leave the skid steer loader.
Our tree spade attachments are made with a short frame that eliminates the need for counterweights and stabilizers. They can easily cut root ball diameters of up to 20”.
They also feature adjustable legs that can set the digging depth, abrasion-resistant ⅜” thick blades, low-profile blade towers, and can easily fit and dig between closely planted trees.
We also carry tree boom attachments which are also effective for transplanting trees.
Never Surrender: The Industry’s Toughest Skid Steer and Mini Skid Steer Attachments
These are some of the most practical mini skid steer attachments we offer for agricultural land management, including clearing, soil conditioning, and planting. Spartan Equipment attachments are hard-working and will Never Surrender.
All Spartan Equipment skid steer and mini skid steer attachments are renowned in the industry for their toughness and reliability.
They are all made with pride here in the United States only, using American steel, not cheap Chinese steel.
Many of our attachments are covered by generous warranties (see product pages for additional details) and are eligible for free ground shipping.
We stand behind our products. If you have any questions about these mini skid steer attachments, please reach out to our customer service at 1-888-888-1085.