Top Compact Equipment Attachments

Unleash the full potential of your compact equipment with the right attachments. Compact equipment attachments can tackle an impressive array of projects and help you improve your productivity.

We’ve gathered up the most common compact equipment attachments and their uses below. For more information or to shop compact equipment attachments for sale, visit Atlantic Tractor. Our dealerships are located throughout Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

Rotary Cutter

Design:

• Gets dragged behind the compact equipment.

Tasks:

• Handles tall, thick, and tough vegetation.
• Helps control overgrowth by removing weeds and clearing away brush.
• Prepares lands for planting.

Commonly used at:

• Parks.
• Roadsides.
• Wildlife habitat preserves.
• Pastures.
• Ditches.

Mid Mower

Design:

• Gets attached to the compact equipment's underbelly, which means it doesn't add any length.

Tasks:

• Creates a well-manicured lawn look.
• Navigate tight spaces and corners better than other types of mowing attachments.

Commonly used by:

• Professional landscapers.
• Homeowners of smaller properties.

Grooming Mower

Design:

• Simple and straightforward.
• Uses sharp blades to get the job done.

Tasks:

• Maintains grass that is usually under eight inches long.

Commonly used at:

• Golf courses.
• Athletic fields.
• Lawns.

Pallet Forks

Design:

• Long and thin forks, which can go through a hole in the object (resulting in better balance than resting the item on top of the forks).

Tasks:

• Loads pallets.
• Loads trucks.
• Handles materials, such as lumber and metal.

Commonly used in:

• Industrial plants.
• Landscaping projects.
• Construction.
• Fertilizer handling.
• Municipal projects.
• Scrap and demolition projects.

Rear Blade

Design:

• Gets attached to the rear of the compact equipment.

Tasks:

• Levels materials.
• Grades roads.
• Scrapes away snow.
• Maintains a driveway.
• Builds paths.

Rototiller

Design:

• Typically gets attached to the rear of the compact equipment.

Tasks:

• Loosens the top few inches of the soil.
• Prepares the soil for planting.
• Levels the ground for a garden.
• Prepares for a cleaner yard.

Box Blade

Design:

• Long rectangular device with front and rear blades (also called scarifier shanks or scarifiers).
• Can get attached to the front of the compact equipment, but is usually pulled behind the compact equipment.

Tasks:

• Breaks up soil.
• Shapes soil.
• Smooths soil.
• Makes roads and paths.
• Levels gravel for parking lots.
• Collects gravel to level potholes.

Snow Blades

Tasks:

• Plows snow drifts.
• Moves piles of snow.
• Removes snow from sidewalks, driveways, parking lots. 

Post Hole Digger

Design:

• A type of large auger.

Tasks: 

• Quickly creates evenly sized and shaped holes.
• Helps make holes for fence posts, trees and bushes, etc.

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