Who makes a tractor style loader bucket?

BarnyardEngineering · Jan 11, 2021

The bucket on my loader is shot, so I'm thinking of getting a skidsteer quick attach adapter so I can use all the cool attachments. Forklift, grapple, rock bucket...

All the buckets I'm seeing for sale are those low profile skidsteer buckets, which look dumb on the front of a tractor.

Can anyone recommend a brand that makes a material bucket that's proportioned more for a tractor? Ideally one that's skidsteer QA ready, but even if I have to weld the QA plate to the back of it.

Tx Jim · Jan 11, 2021

There should be many brand tractor loaders that have SSQA buckets. I know my Kubota LA1153 loader has a SSQA bucket & twin bale spears

Bob Bancroft · Jan 11, 2021

Any idea what brand your loader is, and/or if it's still being manufactured? Maybe that company has some possibilities.

fastfarmall · Jan 11, 2021

If your wanting a 7 or a 8 ft bucket for a loader, then i would go with the Wesntidorf, bucket and Quick Attachment, They are based out of Onawa Iowa, that's the slickest set up i have ever seen! But nothing for Bobcat sized buckets !

BarnyardEngineering · Jan 11, 2021

Yes, I know "there should be" but I can't find any. All searches for loader buckets on google result in low profile skidsteer buckets, which is not what I want.

The loader is a CaseIH 2350, last manufactured in 1987, and when I go into a dealer and ask for a bucket, they laugh at me.

I'm looking for widely available, universal, and affordable. Everybody uses skidsteer QA. Nobody uses Westendorf, so you're stuck buying attachments from Westendorf, at 5X the price.

dzc3 · Jan 11, 2021

Take a look at Jenkins in Long Prairie Mn. Great family owned company, make a good product. Their rock bucket is the best I have seen

MSD · Jan 11, 2021

Miller Loader Company makes loaders and buckets. They are in Iowa.

SDMike · Jan 11, 2021

Barnyard, I do not know pricing, but here are 2 companies that I was looking at before I got lucky and found a really nice bucket at the tractor salvage place in Salem SD. Good Luck.

https://www.millerloader.com/products/attachments/buckets

https://mdsmfg.com/

Mike
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jimmyjoe · Jan 11, 2021

I bought a high volume bucket from Jenkins.

tomstractorsandtoys · Jan 11, 2021

My NH dealer sells aftermarket buckets and has both the low profile and the regular style. The regular ones are popular with farmers for feeding silage. A few prefer them for sloppy manure. You could try Hennessey Implement Dodgeville WI. Tom

Traditional Farmer · Jan 11, 2021

Everything Attachments in NC

DoubleR · Jan 11, 2021

I second that. I had good luck dealing with them

fixerupper · Jan 11, 2021

Rupp manufacturing in Cherokee Iowa makes buckets for most makes. I have a Rupp on my Westendorf and the bucket seems to be as strong as a Westendorf bucket. Rupp can make most any bucket though. They are a small machine shop in an old building but those guys are the best at what they do. One thing to be aware of is cheap price and a quality product don't go together well.

Bruce from Can. · Jan 11, 2021

Here in Southern Ontario there are several
Mennonite shops that make loader buckets, stone
forks and other attachments. My skid steer isn’t big
enough to even lift my loader tractors buckets. My
skid steer is 42 inches and my loader tractor
buckets are 100 inches wide. I only get the high
volume buckets, and find the low profile style to be
useless to me, they just don’t pick anything up.

Centerplate · Jan 11, 2021

Any local welding shop can make a bucket for you.

Stephen Newell · Jan 11, 2021

Get someone to make a bracket to fit on the loader to use the different attachments. Can't be that hard, I made one for my tractor.

Destroked 450 · Jan 11, 2021

Bobcat style quick attach is the most popular with lots of attachments for them, I googled "quick attach buckets" and found several.
Larger size tractors use the Euro quick attach system that is stronger than the common Bobcat design, most ag dealers will have buckets for that design

ss55 · Jan 11, 2021

"I'm looking for widely available, universal, and affordable".

What price range are you looking for? If a shop needs to measure your old bucket and make a drawing before ordering materials that adds to the cost. A used loader with a good bucket might be a reasonable option.

BarnyardEngineering · Jan 11, 2021

(quoted from post at 08:26:20 01/11/21) Any local welding shop can make a bucket for you.

Yeah, for about 4X the price of a skidsteer bucket, and if you're willing to wait 6 months.

NY 986 · Jan 11, 2021

Here in the Finger Lakes there are Mennonite shops and even Amish shops (that's right, Amish) that would fabricate what you want and to your specs. Last I knew
the shop rates were 30-40 dollars per hour. The Amish shop up the road welded a new beam onto my disk chisel a few years ago but now they only do contract work
to vendors but there are others around. When I could get them to do jobs I would just drive up to the shop. I don't know how they handle orders from a distance most
likely through a local designated contact. You might want to call Jim's Fixit (a Mennonite IH shop) in Penn Yan, NY as he might know where to get a 2350 bucket.
Wenger's in PA possibly.

BarnyardEngineering · Jan 11, 2021

(quoted from post at 09:31:24 01/11/21) "I'm looking for widely available, universal, and affordable".

What price range are you looking for? If a shop needs to measure your old bucket and make a drawing before ordering materials that adds to the cost. A used loader with a good bucket might be a reasonable option.

The mass produced 84" QA skid loader buckets tend to bring around $500-600. Can't have one built for anywhere close to that. Can't build one for anywhere close to that.

NY 986 · Jan 11, 2021

Maybe Lamb and Webster will have one in the auction row this March. I'd still check with a Mennonite shop and let them confirm your worst fears as to cost. Some
even have brakes to bend metal so they don't have to weld every curve point on something like a loader bucket.

495man · Jan 11, 2021

Try HLA They make QA conversions and sell buckets.

I have HLA buckets for a Euro coupler loader, they are built heavy

mjibben · Jan 11, 2021

Try mds or h and h grand meadow mn

Kansas4010 · Jan 11, 2021

Hayspear.com has adapters and buckets.

TJV · Jan 12, 2021

MDS makes all kinds of attachments and adaptors for loaders. They are in southern south Dakota. I have a rock bucket pallet forks and bale
spear from them all good quality tough attachments.

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