Just buy it. Seriously.
I received mine a week ago. Only took a couple of days, despite the website warning it could take 2 weeks. I have 5 acres of woods as a yard. I am in an unending battle with scrub brush that chokes out the desirable trees on my lot. I tried a DR Field and Brush mower, which had so many drawbacks I can't list them all here. It was tough to handle, and exhausting. And boulders....which I have a lot of....well, it didn't like them.
So I got a JD 1025 R to use as a mower, and with an FEL and plow. I had hoped to clear scrub with the Loader, but it was completely ineffective. Great at everything else, but I still had a brush problem. I didn't want to try a brush hog because of cost, and the aforementioned boulder content of my property. I saw this, and thought, what the hell. Might work.
I got it and installed it (get the step drill, it makes install a 20 minute deal). 5 minutes later I was punching holes in the underbrush, and uprooting saplings up to 2" round, easily. When I'd run up against a bunch of them, I started putting the bucket on the ground, tipping it up a couple of degrees, and burying the bar into the bunch, tip back further, and POP, up they come. And you can run it into a boulder without hurting it. It digs like a monster, and backfilling is way easier. So now I can dig those boulders up, which I couldn't do with the stock bucket.
Best idea ever. When, or if, I kill this one, I will gleefully order another one. It is a 1000% improvement in the functionality of the bucket. Buy it! You will not believe it.
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Reviewed by: Erik Anderson from Whitewater.
on 7/4/2017
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