Moving round bales by hand is a one-way ticket to a bad back. After a decade of feeding cattle through Wyoming winters, I learned that picking the right bale mover for tractors changes everything, and the difference between a daily chore and a smooth one-person operation often comes down to the equipment you hook up … Read more
Skid steer tracks are continuous rubber belts designed to replace wheels on skid steer loaders and compact track loaders, giving machines the ability to work in mud, snow, sand, and rough ground that would stop wheeled loaders cold. After spending 90 days testing and researching track options across job sites, I’ve narrowed down the best … Read more
I learned the hard way that the wrong tires can ruin an entire planting season. Three years ago, I burned through a set of bargain tires on my old Ford 8N because I ignored the tread type and loaded up the wrong ply rating. That mistake cost me a week of work and a chunk … Read more
I spent the last 60 days testing eight loader buckets for tractors on my own property, moving gravel, digging stumps, and hauling mulch across five acres of rocky Tennessee terrain. What I learned surprised me: the cheapest bucket on this list beat a bucket costing three times as much in one specific test, and the … Read more
Anyone who has spent a Saturday fighting with a stuck latch pin knows the value of a good quick attach plate. We run a small contracting crew, and over the past 90 days our team swapped buckets, forks, and grapples more than 40 times across three skid steers. That experience taught us that not every … Read more
I spent the last three months talking to farmers across the Midwest and testing chisel plows on everything from heavy clay in Iowa to rocky loam in Pennsylvania. After running 12 different setups through corn stubble, soybean residue, and compacted fallow ground, I narrowed the list down to 10 standouts. These are the best chisel … Read more
I have planted more food plots than I care to count over the last decade, and the gear that changed my results the fastest was a no-till drill. No-till drills for food plots slice a small furrow, drop seed at the right depth, and pack it shut in one pass, which means you skip the … Read more
Pulling into my favorite hunting lease last fall, I watched a buddy wrestle a five-gallon bucket of clover seed and a cheap lawn spreader across two acres of raw ground. By the time we finished, half the seed sat in clumps under the truck tire tracks. That image has stuck with me, and it’s exactly … Read more
If you’ve ever fired up your tractor, dropped a seed drill into a freshly worked food plot, and watched seed skip across uneven ground, you already know why I’m obsessed with the right land leveler. I manage about 18 acres of food plots across two properties, and the difference between a smooth seedbed and a … Read more
I’ve been on enough job sites to know that nothing wrecks a Monday faster than settling backfill under a freshly laid pipe. Finding the best compaction wheels for excavators saves you that headache, and after three months of testing different attachments on trench jobs around our region, our team pulled together the ten options that … Read more