Heavy Equipment Attachments in Southern Alberta
Foothills Equipment carries heavy equipment attachments in Calgary and Lethbridge, serving Southern Alberta, everything south of Red Deer. We carry five lines: Steelwrist, AMI, Weldco-Beales, FMS and TMG Industrial, covering more than 387 attachments for skid steers, mini excavators, excavators, backhoes, wheel loaders, motor graders and dozers.
A machine earns its keep by what is on the end of the arm. Tell us the machine and the job, and an advisor will match the attachment to both before anything gets quoted.
Pick the tool, and we will size it to your machine.
- Buckets112 attachmentsDigging, trenching, ditch cleaning, loading and cleanup, sized to the machine and to what you are moving. Rock, frost, skeleton, tilt and snow buckets too.
- Grapples60 attachmentsPick up and place what a bucket cannot hold: logs, pipe, mats, scrap, brush and demolition debris.
- Couplers and Tiltrotators45 attachmentsSwap tools without knocking out pins, and tilt or rotate the tool right on the end of the stick.
- Snow Blades and Pushers32 attachmentsClear lots, lanes, yards and roads. Pushers move a lot of snow per pass, blades and wings angle it where you want it.
- Specialty Tools29 attachmentsThe ones that do not fit a category: post drivers, stump grinders, concrete pulverizers, wood chippers, boom poles, jib booms, tire handlers, extendible sticks, asphalt cutters and more.
- Blades and Grading23 attachmentsLevel, crown, backfill and finish, from a grader moldboard to a skid steer land plane.
- Pallet Forks and Fork Racks22 attachmentsUnload trucks and move pallets, pipe, lumber and material around the yard or the site. Wheel loader, excavator, mini excavator and backhoe only.
- Rakes13 attachmentsClear roots, brush and rock, and separate the debris from the dirt you want to keep.
- Rippers and Scarifiers11 attachmentsBreak frost, hardpan, rock and packed ice so the bucket or the blade can do its job.
- Thumbs9 attachmentsTurn the bucket into a hand, so the machine can grab and place instead of pushing.
- Brush Cutters and Mulchers9 attachmentsClear overgrowth, brush and small trees on lines, lots and right of ways, on a skid steer or on the end of a boom.
- Brooms and Sweepers6 attachmentsSweep lots, pads and streets clean, either windrowed off to the side or picked up into a hopper.
- Breakers and Hammers6 attachmentsBreak concrete, frost and rock without bringing a second machine to the site.
- Augers3 attachmentsFence lines, deck piles, sign bases and pilings, on a skid steer or an excavator. An auger is three parts: the power head, the mount and the bit.
- Snow Blowers1 attachmentThrow the snow clear instead of pushing it into a bank, for tight lots, lanes and acreages with nowhere left to pile.
Also available, ask an advisor.
Compaction plates, compaction wheels and vibratory rollers. Ground engaging teeth, edges and wear parts. These are short lines rather than full categories, so there is no page for them yet. An advisor will tell you what fits and what it takes to run it.
Start with what is already in your yard.
Skid steers and compact track loaders
57 attachmentsBuckets, grapples, snow blades and pushers, brooms, brush cutters, mulchers, breakers, land planes, augers, post drivers and stump grinders. Mostly universal skid steer quick attach, so it lands on what you run.
Mini excavators
100 attachmentsBuckets, thumbs, couplers, tiltrotators, grapples, rippers, compactors, breakers and flail mowers, for machines from about 4,400 lb up to the ten tonne line.
Excavators
173 attachmentsThe deepest part of the catalogue. Digging, rock, frost and ditch cleaning buckets, thumbs, grapples, couplers and tiltrotators, rippers, brush cutters and breakers, up to mining class.
Backhoes
71 attachmentsFront and rear. Buckets, couplers, thumbs, forks, boom poles, snow blades, breakers and sweepers.
Wheel loaders
120 attachmentsGeneral purpose, rock, light material and snow buckets, fork racks, grapples, snow blades and wings, power brooms, tire handlers and jib booms.
Motor graders
24 attachmentsMoldboards, snow blades and plows, mast and mastless snow wings, endgates, parallelogram rippers, lift groups and push blocks.
Dozers
10 attachmentsAngle and tilt blades, chip and coal seam blades, brush rakes, parallelogram rippers and sidebooms.
We start with the machine and the job, not the catalogue.
An attachment is a second product category on top of the machine, and it is the one where the money gets wasted. A tool that is too heavy makes the machine unstable. A tool that needs more flow than the machine makes will run hot and slow. A tool on the wrong coupler does not go on at all. None of that shows up in a photo.
So we start somewhere else. Tell us the machine, the make and model and size, and tell us the work: what you dig, move, clear or build, and what is coming next season. From there an advisor works through three things before anything is quoted.
Flow and pressure
Any powered tool, a breaker, a mulcher, a broom, an auger, a snow blower, has a flow range it needs. Standard flow and high flow are different machines. A few tools also need a case drain line back to tank, and running them without one damages the motor.
Weight and balance
The attachment has to sit inside what the machine can lift and still stay planted. Reach makes that worse, so a big bucket on a long stick is a different question than the same bucket up close.
Coupler and mount
Pin on, wedge, pin grabber, or a universal skid steer quick attach. If your machine is on a coupler, the tool needs the matching lugs, and if it is not, there is usually a way to get it there.
Once those three line up, we talk about which line makes the most sense for the work and for the budget. Some of what we carry is built heavier than the job needs, and we will say so.
What happens after you pick one.
Not everything sits in our yard, and we will not pretend it does. Some of what we carry is on the shelf, and the rest comes in from the manufacturer. Most of these lines are built in Canada or warehoused here, so the wait is usually short. Your advisor confirms the real availability on the tool you want before you commit to anything.
If you are buying a machine at the same time, attachments can be financed alongside it, on approved credit, so the whole package lands on one payment.
Questions we get asked
Will this attachment fit my machine?
Usually, and confirming it takes one conversation. Tell us the make, model and year of the machine and what coupler is on it. We check three things: the hydraulic flow and pressure the machine makes, the weight the machine can carry safely, and the mount. Most attachments are built or lugged to suit the carrier, so fit is a matter of ordering the right version rather than hoping.
Do you stock attachments or order them in?
Both. We hold product, and the rest comes in from the manufacturer. Your advisor confirms availability on the specific attachment you want, because it changes by line and by size. We would rather give you a real date than a slogan.
Can I finance an attachment with a machine?
Yes. Attachments can be financed alongside a new machine, on approved credit, so the tool and the carrier sit on the same payment instead of being a separate cash hit.
Do you sell attachments for machines you did not supply?
Yes. Most of what we sell goes on machines from other manufacturers. Our shops have repaired every major brand in Southern Alberta for years, so telling you what will and will not work on your machine is normal work here.
What does a high flow attachment need?
A high flow machine, and sometimes a case drain line. Powered tools like mulchers, large brush cutters, snow blowers and breakers each have a flow and pressure range, and running one outside that range is slow at best and expensive at worst. Give us the machine and we will tell you what it can run before you order.
Do you deliver?
Yes, across Southern Alberta from Calgary and Lethbridge. If the attachment is going on one of our machines, it can arrive with it.
Tell us the machine. We will find the tool.
Talk to an advisor about what you run and what you are trying to get done, and we will come back with what fits. If you are looking at a machine too, book a free demo and run it with the attachment you would actually use.