Skid Steer Attachments

Dig, Drill and Trench

The auger is the post-hole digger of the lineup: a hydraulic drive head with interchangeable bits for fence posts, footings and tree pits. One operator drills in seconds what a crew with hand augers fights all morning. We photograph it mounted on the S55 — drive head, extension and bit ship as a set.

For linear work there is a trencher for irrigation and cable runs, and a backhoe arm that turns the carrier into a spot excavator for stumps and pits. Neither replaces a dedicated excavator on volume digging; both earn their freight on mixed jobs where hauling a second machine costs more than it returns.

Break, Grab and Sort

The hydraulic breaker mounts on the mini carriers for slab demolition, rock and curb work — the photos on this page show it plumbed and working. Because the tracked 380 puts little weight on the ground, it can break a floor inside a building that a heavier rig could never enter.

Handling tools follow: a log grapple for brush and demolition debris, and the 4-in-1 combination bucket that opens to doze, grab, level and backfill without leaving the seat. A screening bucket rounds it out, separating topsoil from rock so fill gets reused instead of trucked away.

Carry, Sweep and Mow

Pallet forks turn the carrier into a rough-terrain forklift for pallets, lumber and pipe; the bale spear does the same job for hay. Both are fixed-tine, no hydraulics to connect — drop them on the plate and drive.

For grounds keeping there is an angle broom and an angled sweeper-collector for lots and warehouse floors, plus a flail-type mower for grass and light roadside brush. The high-dump bucket adds reach when loading high-sided trucks with mulch or grain.

These attachments pair with the carriers on our skid steer loaders page — the stand-on 380 and the wheeled S55 — and with most third-party machines that carry a universal plate. Send your plate dimensions if the carrier is not ours.

The Snow Package

Four tools cover winter: a straight snow blade for driveways, a V-plow that splits deep drifts, a snow blower that throws rather than piles, and a wide snow bucket for stacking. Contractors who sweep lots in summer often run the same carrier year-round on this rotation.

Hydraulic units like the blower take the carrier's auxiliary flow through the same quick couplers as the breaker, so the changeover between tools is a pin-and-coupler job measured in minutes. Quote the package together with the carrier and it crates in the same container.

Skid Steer Forks & Material Handling Attachments

Pallet forks are the most-ordered attachment after buckets, and it's easy to see why: no hydraulic hookup, just drop them on the plate and drive. The catalog runs standard 48-inch and 60-inch tine sets, plus a quick-attach carriage for fast tool changes between forks and other tools. A grapple-fork option adds a clamping top beam for loose loads — pipe, brush, scrap — that plain tines can't secure.

Farm and ranch orders usually add a bale spear alongside the fork set. A single or double spike penetrates round and square bales cleanly, and the quick-attach mount makes it a fast swap from forks. For yards handling both loose hay and wrapped bales, a bale grapple is the better call — it closes around the whole bale without a center spike, which matters on net-wrapped silage where a spear tears the wrap. A wider grapple with side tines is available on request for square bale stacks.

Rotating forks tilt the load without repositioning the carrier — useful on uneven ground or when loading a truck bed at an angle. A hydraulic version runs tine spread off the auxiliary circuit instead of a manual adjustment. The same geometry is built smaller for stand-on mini carriers; send us your carrier model and we match the plate width and tine capacity before the order goes to the cutting table.

Skid Steer Logging & Grapple Attachments

Grapple attachments grab and carry what buckets and forks can't — brush piles, cut logs, demolition debris, root balls. Our log grapple is a four-tine wrist-action design; a rotating version adds a full 360-degree slew so the operator can load a truck from any approach angle without repositioning the carrier. The grab holds the log while the machine reverses, rather than pushing it along the ground the way a bucket would. A smaller frame covers the stand-on mini carriers.

Root and brush grapples are the land-clearing tools: the wide-set tines on a root grapple reach into rubble and root balls that a log grapple would bridge over, while a lighter, wider-jawed brush grapple handles volume — cut brush, limbs, light demolition debris. For forestry and right-of-way work we often ship a grapple together with a shear attachment that cuts stems at the base while the grapple carries the material to the pile.

A hydraulic log splitter is a less common option, useful on properties that process their own firewood. It runs off the carrier's auxiliary circuit to drive a splitting wedge, and a combination version pairs the splitter with a small crosscut bar. We size the cylinder to your carrier's hydraulic pressure and flow before building it — an undersized cylinder will stall on knotty wood or cavitate the pump.

Skid Steer Tiller & Soil Preparation Attachments

A rotary tiller turns the carrier into a powered cultivator for seedbed prep, garden renovation and athletic field maintenance. It runs off the auxiliary hydraulic circuit and uses a rotor with hardened L-blades that break compacted soil in one pass. The hydraulic drive holds a steady rotor speed regardless of ground resistance — a chain-drive tiller bogs down the moment it hits clay. We match rotor width and blade pattern to the carrier's flow rate before quoting.

Harley rakes and power rakes are finishing tools, not deep tillage. A Harley rake uses spring-tine fingers on a reel to pull rocks and debris to the surface while leaving fine soil ready for seeding — the standard choice for lawn establishment and erosion repair. A power rake does similar work with a paddle-style reel and suits road-shoulder grading and gravel-lot leveling. Where the ground has embedded rock that would bend standard tines, a carbide-tipped soil conditioner is the tool built for it.

Disc plows and harrow attachments round out the range, mainly for small farms running one carrier across both earthmoving and crop ground. A 3-point hitch adapter lets the same carrier run tractor-style implements, and a PTO adapter converts the auxiliary hydraulic circuit to a mechanical shaft output — we confirm the hydraulic flow requirement against your implement before quoting the adapter plate.

Screening Bucket & Rock Separation Attachments

A screening bucket separates fine material from oversize: tilt it back, a drum on the auxiliary circuit rotates, dirt and topsoil fall through the screen bars while rock, roots and debris stay in the shell for a separate dump. Set against renting a standalone trommel screen, the attachment costs less to move and needs no power source beyond the carrier already on site.

It earns its keep on topsoil recovery, compost processing, gravel sorting and turf renovation — anywhere pulling stones before seeding saves real hand labor. A rock bucket, sometimes called a skeleton bucket, is the simpler alternative: fixed tines at fixed spacing, no hydraulics, dirt falls through by gravity as you tilt. It's more durable on abrasive material and costs less, but the bar spacing can't change; the screening bucket's rotating drum lets you tune throughput to the material. We quote screen diameter and bar spacing to the application rather than a fixed catalog size.

Mini Excavator Attachments

Mini excavator attachments extend a compact machine well past digging. The auger is the most-ordered add-on: a hydraulic torque head with interchangeable bits for fence posts, footings, tree planting and pier holes. We size the drive head to the carrier's auxiliary flow and confirm torque output before shipping — the same geometry scales down for the smaller 1-ton class machines.

Hydraulic breakers are the second most-ordered tool. We ship the moil point, body, hose kit and side brackets as a matched set sized to the carrier model, from full mini-excavator classes down to the sub-1.5 t range.

A hydraulic thumb grabs boulders, roots and debris that a plain bucket can't retain — useful on demolition and land-clearing jobs. The bucket lineup covers standard digging, ditching and rock buckets across the size range. Beyond those, we also supply a compaction wheel, a trencher, and a quick-hitch system that makes swapping between tools a one-person job, along with rubber tracks and final drives as wear-and-replacement parts for the carrier itself.

Skid Steer Attachment Types, Brands & Buying Guide

The full catalog covers more ground than buckets and forks: a mulcher and brush cutter for vegetation management, a stump grinder and boom attachment for utility and tree work, a combination bucket for grab-and-scoop jobs, and a grading attachment for finish work. Hydraulic tools are matched to the carrier's circuit — most of our range runs on standard 15–25 gpm flow, with a high-flow option for mulchers and high-torque augers that need more.

We build to the universal quick-attach spec, so plate fit checks out against the major carrier brands — Bobcat, Caterpillar, Case, John Deere, Kubota, New Holland — before anything ships; we confirm against your carrier's documentation rather than assume. Mini carriers vary more between manufacturers, so we ask for a plate drawing or model number on sub-1 t machines.

On price: new versus used comes down to what's hydraulic and what isn't. Used mechanical tools — forks, buckets, blades — are low risk if the tines are straight and the welds are sound. Used hydraulic tools carry more risk: worn seals and undersized motors from a mismatched carrier are hard to spot without pulling them apart, and factory-direct new pricing is often competitive once duty and freight are counted. The right tool for a job isn't a ranking — an auger earns more per hour on a fence-post job, a bucket earns more on a landscaping job. Tell us the work and we'll help build the right set rather than sell the biggest-ticket item on the page.