Skid Loader Attachments
By Dick Atkinson
Skid Loaders have been around for many years, but never have there been so many skid loader attachments available.
Now days a skid steer is not just a loader, or a piece of equipment for scooping and moving dirt and other material, just about any imaginable attachment that can be conceived has been made for the skid loader.
When I was a kid we had a Gehl Skid loader on the farm that we used for so many tasks. We did all of the things with that skid loader with just the bucket that came with it. Of course we used it for cleaning the free stall shed and barnyard, that was the primary purpose that it was purchased, but there were so many other uses for it as well.
We mixed cement in it by hand for small concrete jobs, hauled grain with it, used it as a portable scaffold, and I even replaced the engine in my first car with it. Looking back, it was one of the most useful pieces of equipment that we had.
Today you can get attachments that will do so many things with you skid loader including a backhoe, brush mower, grapples, ditch diggers, barrel handlers, earth augers, pallet handlers, round ball unwrappers, stump grinders, rock pickers and power brooms just to name a few. At this moment I am sure there are more skid loader attachments being dreamed up and manufactured.
If you have a specific job to do, there is a good chance that you can find an attachment for you skid loader to accomplish the task.