Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, and it's free whether you buy or not. Send your make, model and, if you have it, the hydraulic flow figure off your machine's plate to support@rightfitattachments.com, or ask the assistant in the corner of the screen. We run all six checks — mounting plate, flow, too much flow, case drain, lift capacity, working dimension — and we'll tell you plainly if the answer is don't buy it.

Make and model is enough to start. The year helps, because the same model can change hydraulics between production runs. If you can read the flow rating off the plate on the machine, send that too — it settles the question outright.

If you don't know where to look, just send the model. We'll pull the manufacturer's own spec sheet and read it for you.

Because we checked sixteen machines and "high flow" meant anything from 26.9 to 45 GPM depending on who printed the brochure. That's not a small difference — it's the gap between an attachment that runs and one that doesn't.

One major manufacturer sells an "enhanced high flow" upgrade that delivers less flow than their standard high flow. It's a pressure upgrade wearing a flow-sounding name. We publish the actual number instead, on every product and every machine guide.

It's on the data plate or decal on the machine, and in the operator's manual under hydraulic system. What you want is gallons per minute at the auxiliary circuit — the couplers on the loader arm, not the main pump figure.

Do not go by the badge on the side. Send us the model and we'll read the manufacturer's spec sheet instead.

Yes, and almost nobody warns you about it. Over-flowing a hydraulic motor is a real failure mode, not a theoretical one — it overruns the motor and takes it out.

That's why every product here lists a range rather than a minimum. We check both ends before you order.

It depends on the motor, not on the attachment category. Piston motors need one; gear motors generally don't. Two attachments that do the same job can differ on this, which is why the category name won't tell you.

Every product page states whether the one you're looking at needs one.

Back-pressure has nowhere to go and it destroys the motor seals — usually inside a season, sometimes inside a week of hard use.

It is also not covered under warranty, because it isn't a defect. It's the single most expensive avoidable mistake in this category, and it happens because the requirement is buried in a spec sheet nobody reads.

If your loader takes a universal skid steer quick-attach plate, almost certainly — it's as close to a standard as this industry has. Everything in No Hydraulics Needed is decided on this alone.

Non-standard and older carriers do exist. Tell us what's on the machine and we'll confirm before you order rather than after.

Send us the make and model. We'll pull the real spec sheet from the manufacturer, check it against whatever you're looking at, and usually have a full guide written within a day — free either way.

The fifteen guides we've published are the machines people asked about first, not the only ones we'll do.

That's a different question from whether it mounts, and it's the one people get wrong. The attachment's own weight comes off your rated operating capacity before the load does — a 3,000 lb machine carrying 450 lb of forks has 2,550 lb left, not 3,000.

Rated capacity also drops as you reach out. A load that lifts fine tight to the machine can tip you forward at full extension. We do that subtraction on every product page.

Under about 3 inches of material, a brush cutter is the right tool and far cheaper — grass, brush and saplings, on standard flow.

Beyond that you need a mulcher, and a mulcher needs 30–45 GPM plus a case drain, which rules out most machines entirely. Buying a mulcher your loader cannot turn is the most expensive mistake in land clearing.

Depends whether you're billing days. Mulching contractors bill $2,500–4,500 a day; at that rate the maths works quickly.

If you're clearing your own land twice a year, renting is the honest answer and we'll tell you so rather than sell you something that lives in a shed.

Sand and loam take standard cup teeth — fastest dig. Clay wants shark teeth, because cup teeth pack and stop cutting. Rock and frost need carbide; anything else burns through two sets in a day.

Wrong teeth in hard ground is the most common reason people conclude the machine is junk. Tell us your soil and we'll spec it.

Size it to your loader, not to your driveway. A pusher or blade too wide for the machine tips it forward under a full push of wet snow — that is the most common way people get hurt with snow attachments, and almost nobody selling them mentions it.

Send us the machine and we'll tell you the widest you can safely run.

Less than half a yard, on most machines. Wet concrete weighs roughly 4,000 lb per cubic yard, so the rating on the sticker is volume — it is not what your loader can lift.

On a Kubota SVL75-3, for instance, you can realistically run about 0.40 yd³ rather than the full 0.50.

That's the entire point of the place. Email support@rightfitattachments.com with your machine and what you're trying to do, and you'll get a straight answer — including when the answer is that nothing we sell suits the job.

By 1 October. The whole industry is out of stock by the first storm, lead times run roughly two weeks, and every contractor in your county orders in the same week you do.

Ordering in December is how people end up paying rental rates all winter. Snow & Storm has the full range.

Yes — Right Fit Pro is built for exactly that. Trade pricing on every order rather than a one-time coupon, and we keep a file of your machines' plates and flow figures so nothing gets re-checked twice.

Free to join, no minimum order, no volume requirement.

No, deliberately. Most sites in this category end their fitment advice with "call us" during office hours. We'd rather answer it properly, in writing, at any hour — email or the assistant in the corner both reach a real answer, not a hold queue.

A written answer also means you can forward it to whoever is actually operating the machine.

In less than 24 hours — there are no posted hours to wait on, so a message sent at midnight gets the same answer as one sent at noon.

Nothing — shipping is free, built into the price you see on the product page. No "call for shipping," no separate freight charge at checkout, no invoice afterwards.

Full detail on the Shipping & Freight page.

Under 1,500 lb, liftgate delivery is available. Over that there is no liftgate at any price — that's a limit of the equipment, not a policy — so you'll need a dock, a forklift, or your own machine at the curb.

Every product page tells you which side of that line it falls on.

Somewhere the truck can actually get to, and a way to get the item off it if the piece is over the liftgate limit. Freight carriers deliver kerbside — the driver is not there to help you place it.

Be there to sign, and read the next answer before you do.

Note the damage on the Bill of Lading before you sign. That single step decides whether a freight claim succeeds — signing a clean BOL is signing to say it arrived in good order.

Photograph it on the truck, write the damage in words on the paperwork, then email us the same day with the photos. We pay freight both ways and you get a refund or a replacement, your choice.

30 days on unused items in original packaging. Return freight is yours unless we got the fitment wrong, in which case it's ours both ways.

Full terms on Returns & Warranty.

One may apply where the manufacturer charges us one. We'll tell you the figure before you ship it back, not after — a restocking fee you find out about from a refund that came up short is a trick, not a policy.

Manufacturing defects, under the manufacturer's own warranty, which varies by product — the terms are on Returns & Warranty.

What is never covered anywhere is damage from running an attachment outside its specification: motor seals destroyed by a missing case drain, or a hydraulic motor overrun by too much flow. Both are the reasons we check before you buy.

Equipment bought and put into service in the same tax year is generally deductible in full under Section 179. Note that it turns on the date it goes into service, not the date you ordered — so a December order that lands in January counts for the following year.

We sell attachments, not tax advice. Worth a short conversation with your accountant before 31 December.