Beyondtech Sand-Master™ — The skid steer rotary tillage device that Gives Cat, Bobcat, and Kubota Loaders a Turbocharged Way to Fluff, Level, and Revitalize Every Barn, Arena, and Landscape Bed
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When you walk a dairy alley at five o’clock in the morning and feel the bedding underfoot, you can almost predict the herd-health report: soft, aerated sand means fewer hock lesions, lower somatic cell counts, and less lameness; packed, ammonia-rich crusts spell costly claw trims and mastitis treatments. Yet sending an operator down 400 stalls with a hand rake is medieval, and dragging a tractor-mount harrow inside a modern free-stall barn is about as agile as steering a barge in a bathtub. Beyondtech’s new skid steer sand bedding scarifier solves the dilemma with a single hydraulic head that clamps to the quick-tach plate you already own, spins a torque-rich drum, and transforms cement-hard pack into a pillow-soft, perfectly crowned surface in one slow, dust-free pass.
A Drum Designed for Dust, Damp, and Dairy Sand
The core of the attachment is a sand bedding rotary drum welded from DOM tube, balanced to aircraft tolerance, and studded with replaceable carbide-clad teeth. Each tooth keys into a dovetail seat and locks beneath a torque nut, so when wear finally shows, two impacts swap tips and the replaceable tooth scarifier is back to spec before the cows finish the parlor. The cutting spiral follows a graduated helical pattern—nibble, lift, toss—giving the tool a high-torque bedding tiller personality that chops through gypsum-bound sand one second and fluffs sawdust the next.
Power arrives through a stout hydraulic rotary tillage head driven by a piston motor nested safely behind end plates. Routed hoses stay tucked inboard: no exposed whips for inquisitive heifers to chew, no accidental snags in gate latches. Pressure spikes bleed through an internal relief, protecting Cat’s 4,000-psi high-flow circuits just as surely as Bobcat’s standard loops, so the same head becomes a plug and play tiller across every loader in a mixed fleet.
Scarify, Level, and Crown in One Pass
Most barn tools perform one task—break clumps or push mounds or skim tops—and leave another crew to finish. Beyondtech engineers studied the full bedding cycle and built three actions into a single device:
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Compacted bedding breaker tines split hardpan crust to four inches deep, introducing air and releasing moisture trapped beneath.
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A trailing plate acts as a bedding flattener attachment, dragging loosened material into a micro-crown that drains milkhouse wash water away from lying zones.
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Side leave-boards feather a final crest, so the alley robot never catches a ridge and the bedding curb retains its full fill depth.
Flip two cotter pins and the plate hinges upward, converting the tool into a rotary bedding mixer that blends lime or fine shavings through sand for producers chasing premium-udder scores. Lower the plate again and you have a skid steer bedding leveler tuned for daily fluff rounds. All adjustments happen without wrenches—an operator can move from renovation mode to daily maintenance before the gate chain rattles back into its eye.
Adjustable Teeth for Custom Texture
Dairy sand wants coarse ribbing; equine footing calls for velvet-fine tilth; greenhouse beds love a popcorn crumble. The Beyondtech rotor holds adjustable scarifier teeth tiller blocks that slide fore or aft on slotted hubs, changing contact arc in thirty-second increments. Close the spacing and the unit behaves like an arena soil scarifier skid steer finishing barrel-racing tracks; open it and the same head becomes a construction soil tiller skid steer that chews through backfill around manholes.
Depth stems float on threaded collars—dial a shallow skim for stall bed scarifier skid steer routines or sink to full length for rotary bedding tiller skid steer overhaul days when the pack has caked into concrete. Two stout shoes under the frame carry laser-cut wear pads, so every adjustment preserves the steel cradle that earns Beyondtech its “reinforced steel bedding tiller” reputation.
Pendulum Bias: Why the Blade Learns to Swing
Feed alleys, sand lanes, and equestrian ovals never give the operator a straight, obstruction-free shot. That’s where the pendulum bias pusher architecture shows its genius. The drum hangs on a pivot trunnion that lets the housing float a few degrees left or right, automatically aligning teeth with floor pitch. Add hydraulic indexing and you have a true swing arm feed pusher ability—nudge the joystick, and the tiller side-shifts under stall partitions or alongside bunk lines without steering the loader tires toward the wall. S-bends in freestalls? Side shift feed pusher action glides past posts while the operator’s shoulder stays pointed forward.
Strong Enough for Sand, Soft Enough for Horses
Sand is abrasive, gypsum is corrosive, and wood chips jam everywhere. Beyondtech welds gussets into every stress corner and caps edges in chrome-moly strap. Yet the housing corners boast generous radii, so a horse hip meeting the side panel feels a smooth glide, not a razor flange. That roundover edge also qualifies the tool for arena footing scarifier duty, where canvas-caliber geotextile fibers cost more per pound than prime beef.
Fit and Service Across the Farm
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Cat: The head locks to high-flow arms; the piston motor delivers relentless cutting speed, turning a day-long bedding renovation into three slow drives.
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Bobcat: Standard-flow units still maintain rotor RPM thanks to optimized porting; SJC controls feather depth so the bedding depth control tiller skims just beneath rubber mats.
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Kubota: Track loaders with vertical lift appreciate the low front profile; vision from the cab floor to the tooth line is unobstructed, truly a high visibility mulcher frame for bedding.
A universal skid mount scarifier backplate also accepts Euro carriers—useful for greenhouses on compact loaders—and global ISO lugs mean rental yards label this head “quick attach material blade” and enjoy near-zero tech calls from block-release customers.
Daily service is two shots of grease and a fast coupler check. Weekly, inspect tooth bolts. No belts, no chaincases, no weepy gear reservoirs. Because it lives beside salt, lime, and manure, the frame gets a triple-coat zinc-epoxy-poly finish, fulfilling the promise of a durable rotary bedding tool expected to outlast the concrete it dresses.
More Than Milk Cows and Sand
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Poultry house floor scarifier— loosen caked litter between flocks, reducing ammonia and saving on bedding costs.
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Pig pen bedding scarifier— break manure pack in wean-to-finish rooms without risking slat edges.
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Horse stall sand scarifier— lighten compaction in performance barns, boosting hoof comfort.
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Compost mixing scarifier— fold straw and green waste for aerobic windrow starts.
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Pathway base scarifier— fluff crusher fines before water and plate tamp in golf-course cart paths.
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Vineyard bed scarifier— cultivate undervine alleys without damaging drip tape.
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Greenhouse soil scarifier— aerate raised benches for lettuce rotation, boosting root-zone oxygen.
On construction sites, crews flip knives backward to double as a compacted layer breaker tiller, prepping utility trench backfill for compaction tests. In landscaping, the unit converts to a textured finish soil tiller that leaves decorative ruts for hydro-seed slurry. Whatever the material—sand, shavings, compost, even crusher fines—the blade angle and tooth choice adapt for versatile working condition pusher needs.
ROI You See in the Herd, the Clock, and the Ledger
Dairy herds sleeping on conditioned beds show less mastitis, and that’s measurable milk premiums. Operators only need a loader they already budgeted, so the attachment becomes a cost effective feed pusher in every sense—capital, maintenance, and labor. Two minutes to attach, thirty minutes to renovate three rows, and chores are back on track— true time saving feed return value. And because the drum leaves bedding properly fluffed, barns report up to twenty-five percent less fresh sand used each month—a “material resource saving tiller” talking point that finance teams convert straight into amortization schedules.
Final Pass
Mounted on Cat, Bobcat, or Kubota steel, the Beyondtech rotary bedding tiller skid steer elevates barn hygiene, arena footing, and landscape topsoils from crust to cushion. There is no PTO driveline to grease, no hand rake to swing, no second machine to tow. Pull the quick-tach levers, click two hoses, and unlock a professional bedding scarifier engineered to work as long, and as hard, as the livestock and operators it serves.
Loosen. Level. Lift herd health. That’s Beyondtech doing what it does best: turning compact loader flow into profit and welfare in every stall, row, and bed across the farm and beyond.