With those, I'd opt for the "bought" attachment. I see these almost on a regular basis, listed on craigslist. Regular pallet fork tines, or whole with the quick tach set up for a skidsteer. $500 seems to be a fair price for a complete set, but I see them up to $700 locally. Once in awhile I have seen a deal on them, and as well as plain fork tines or other odd arrangements.
I needed a quick tach set for our tractor at the other place, for many years, and while I worked there, I went and bought a set. The tines were actually some sort of boxed in steel, hollow but from a manufacturer, possibly out of ND/SD painted yellow and red, can't recall, but a U.S. manufacturer. So I'm sure some engineering went into these, but the materials used, a person could make these, but given what they do, you had best know what you are doing. I'd have preferred the typical style, solid fork tine, whats on a fork lift, but surprisingly the ones I bought worked just fine, I unloaded many tractor trailers of pine shavings by palletizing them, heavy skids, no problems with those hollow ones, but... if you make them, they had best be right, when these break its never good.
The other thing was with the set I got was the spill guard on it, thick steel rungs high enough to prevent a round bale from rolling back, this set is universal, so if I built same, it could be used on any quick tach loader frame, so if you did build something, make sure it has a stout guard on it, someone else uses it, does not know and the load rolls off and back onto the operator, the set I bought was $500 and worth every penny, I could have just changed the tines, but they worked out to be plenty strong, these sure are a labor saver.
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