Loader bucket teeth and manure

Fred Werring · Feb 17, 2011

Will a set of teeth on the front of my loader bucket work (or at least help) on packed manure-hay or do I really need forks.

Thanks

Fred

JDseller · Feb 17, 2011

Manure forks where just needed when we had small tractors to push into the manure. I would not worry with either forks or teeth. Just start at the edge of your packed manure and push it up and dump. After a little bit you will have a good broken up pile to load off of.
When we had guys using forks I got a lot more manure spreader repairs. Those big chunks are really hard on a spreader.

showcrop · Feb 17, 2011

Depends on manure and spreader. When we had sheep bedded in straw it was near impossible to break into it and lift it without the tines that we had made. they bolted in and extended out about a foot. Really made it easier on the tractor. We were using a chain flail spreader that broke the pack up nicely.

Fern(Mi) · Feb 17, 2011

Barn cleaning
We use two skidsteers cleaning orfal out of the barn with a small 1618Case in the box stalls moving it out to main alley for the bigger JCB SS accessorized with a forked grapple to pick it up and load it into a 10 ton new idea spreader. the use of a manure or material bucket on the Case depends upon moisture, uneaten hay amounts, and how long it'd been since the last barn cleaning. The forked bucket can take the hay-filled orfal out in layers. Can't do that with a material bucket.
I must add we bed the barn and shelters with wood chips when we can get them offering tree trimmers a place to dump the them here. They let he water drain away. We also shred newspapers for comfortable additional bedding over the straw. Straw's $80.00/ton while newspaper's $20,00/ton.
Oh yeah, we wore out a good flail spreader before bringing the New Idea home.
Fernan

buickanddeere · Feb 17, 2011

If the loader and bucket has enough lifting power. And if the tractor has enough traction. Straw tines are not required.
Tines also make it more difficult to scrape down the pen and pickup loose material.

495man · Feb 17, 2011

Bolt in manure tines are almost required for heavy manure pack laden with straw. You will get nothing done with out tines in these conditions. I load manure from our barns and would not attempt to do the job without the tines bolted on the bucket.

The BEST set up would be the QA bucket and manure fork set up, narrow 5' manure/tine bucket and a wider 6' - 7' material bucket for final scraping and clean up once the pack is broken up.

Fred Werring · Feb 17, 2011

The biggest problem is the packed straw/ hay rolling out of the bucket, my prior loaders-buckets had manure forks, this one doesn't.

Didn't know if digging teeth would be enough to hold the hay in the bucket. Thought if a digging tooth bar would help, I'd go buy a bolt in job and be done with it.

Guess I could make some tines to bolt in the bottom of the bucket, the bucket already has holes in the bottom of it, sets of 2 spaced about 10 inches apart, probably to bolt in tines. Just a little concerned about the strength of the bucket lip with bolt in tines.

A project for another day, I'll keep fighting it for now, as the fields are dry enough that I can spread.

I'm sure that wont last long.

Thanks

Fred

Nebraska Cowman · Feb 18, 2011

Oh yeah, teeth will help. You didn't say if you were working off dirt or concrete. But I really like a grapple to get a big bucket load.

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