Re: Nice score today!

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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• Re: Nice score today! gwstang 20:31:32 10/18/14 (0)

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