I own several pieces of heavy equipment, and the one that is most useful is my skidsteer because it has numerous applications. To be sure, each of my other equipment items have multiple applications, but not nearly as many as the skidsteer. It is perhaps the most useful piece of equipment a homesteader can own, even if it's only equipped with the standard loader bucket.

My neighbor says, "If you can't do it with a skidsteer, it just can't be done." That's an exaggeration, but not far off the mark. Here are the things that I've done with my skidsteer and its standard loader bucket: