[ChuckinNH]

Here are a couple of pictures showing hooks on both the backhoe, and loader buckets. The hook is covered a bit with dirt in the pic of my old backhoe so you will have to look a bit closely to see it. The picture showing the stump chained in the bucket of my old BX shows one use of the hook, and you can see the center mounting that offcamber mentioned. The other pic shows another installation of bucket hooks on a larger tractor. Often the location, and number of hooks is determined by the hydraulic cylinder location, and number of cylinders.