Pros and cons of a lock out bracket.

[Rwgarrison23]

I received my lock out bracket for my narrow frame hydraulic lift. What is the pro and cons between floater vs lock out? New to owning 3 point hitch and implements.

[RAC65]

I've got an extremely heavy tiller I run on my home made 3 point which has its own 2.75 inch lift cylinder. At first I went with a lockout bracket. Had trouble shearing rockshaft pins so just switched to a shutoff valve on the deck cylinder. Keep in mind that my tiller probably weighs 400 lbs. So if you are using more typical weight implements you're probably ok.

[MrRazz]

Well a pro to the lockout would be you can keep whatever implement you are using at the height or depth that you want it at so your implement can work how you want it.
A con to the lockout would be that its much harder on your machine in some cases. You can end up bending, snapping, shearing, or breaking things.
Certain implements actually work better while in float. Two examples are plowing snow or snowblowing. You want the plow or blower to follow the contour of your driveway. Now that same front blade that benefits from floating while plowing snow would better off locked if you were using it as a dozer blade in dirt. So pretty much it depends on your implement and how you are applying that implement to your task.