PACountryGuy
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I would like to have hooks welded to my front end loader bucket.
Advice needed:
1. Should I have one, two or three hooks on the bucket? It is maybe four feet wide.
2. Should the hooks just be big hooks, or should their opening be sized the width of the chain?
3. How should they be welded to the bucket? Directly to the bucket or with some sort of reinforcing
4. If the hooks are too far back the bucket, the chain could bend that curl of metal at the top of the bucket. How should I handle reinforcing the curl?
I want to use the chain for lifting logs for moving around, and other heavy stuff you cannot fit in the bucket but can lift with a chain.
Any directions, drawings of pictures would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Advice needed:
1. Should I have one, two or three hooks on the bucket? It is maybe four feet wide.
2. Should the hooks just be big hooks, or should their opening be sized the width of the chain?
3. How should they be welded to the bucket? Directly to the bucket or with some sort of reinforcing
4. If the hooks are too far back the bucket, the chain could bend that curl of metal at the top of the bucket. How should I handle reinforcing the curl?
I want to use the chain for lifting logs for moving around, and other heavy stuff you cannot fit in the bucket but can lift with a chain.
Any directions, drawings of pictures would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.