"Our new quick-tach hitch lets you quickly mount attachments designed for skid steer loaders onto loader tractors, such as bale spears, buckets, or pallet forks," says Phil Kaster, Kasco Mfg., Shelbyville, Ind.

The hitch consists of two parts. One part pins onto the loader mounting brackets and is equipped with a flat steel bar across the top and steel pins on each side. The other part pins onto the attachment.

To mount an attachment, you raise the loader until the flat bar slides under a bracket on the attachment-mounted hitch. Then, rotate a pair of levers that pop the pins through brackets at the bottom of the hitch.

"It duplicates the hitch commonly used on skid steer loaders so that you can use steer loader attachments on any small loader tractor," says Kaster. "Generally, skid steer loader attachments are less expensive than loader attachments."

Fits most smaller loader tractors.

 The company also makes an adapter hitch that lets you mount modern skid steer attachments on older model skid steer loaders. The hitch hooks onto two steel prongs at the bottom of the skid steer mounting system. To hook up the attachment you drive the skid steer up to it and raise the loader arms, then manually rotate two levers that are already on the loader arms.

"By removing our uni-hitch you can still use your old attachments," notes Kaster, who notes that the system fits older Case, Gehl, Deere, Mustang, and New Holland skid steer loaders.