Posted by RayP(MI) on October 18, 2014 at 18:57:05 from (207.241.143.27):
In Reply to: Nice score today! posted by gwstang on October 18, 2014 at 17:11:54:
I've been using a similar bucket to haul dirt for a couple days. Awfully slow going. Got a friend coming over with a hydro-hoe and a large dump truck. We're going to move some dirt tomorrow. Building up a grade for a pole barn only 6 inches to a foot, but that's a lot of dirt for one of those buckets. I use mine with the opening to the back, so backing up to load. I have trouble with pulling the trip rope to trip the bucket. Added a pulley of sorts where the top-link attaches so trip rope pulls straight up. When I'm ready to dump I set the bucket down to take pressure off latching mechanism, pull the rope, hold and lift to dump. You could add a rope off back of bucket over frame of carriage to provide a little lift to tip bucket. (On mine the latch and rope on bucket, not frame.) Bucket should be pretty well balanced front to back, and helps if you have a little more dirt on the open end of the bucket. That set screw (bolt) was probably put there to allow some adjustment of the angle the bucket sits in the carriage to adjust for dumping angle. Mine doesn't have that - only a slab to prevent bucket from tipping too far backwards. I have had trouble with small stones getting wedged between side of bucket and carriage. Tends to keep from dumping. Careful when hauling gravel.
Also have exactly the same boom pole. Handy for some tasks, but not all that strong. I'm in the process of replacing the horizontal bar between 3pt hitch pins. Bent mine up lifting a cattle gate out of a snowbank last winter. Along with replacing that square bar with one somewhat stronger, I'm going to put two angle iron braces from ends of that bar upward at an angle to boom to provide a a little more stability. (By the way, I paid $79 for mine, new, but that was a number of years ago.
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