Steve in MT
Silver Member
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2011
- Messages
- 105
- Location
- Billings, MT
- Tractor
- kubota L3400, Farmall 'A', Farmall F-14, Ford 860, JD 4520
Chilly807, Glad to see that your back to work on your quick attach, I'll try to keep an eye on your build. O.K. guys, here's an update on my homemade quick attach. I'm in the process of building another bucket for my tractor. I had a pair of plates made to weld to the back of the new bucket. (a friends son works at a fab/welding shop) To keep it simple for him making it, I just told him to make the sides straight and I'l trim to fit. So during the trim stage I didn't leave enough clearance for the "roll out" when removing the bucket, just didn't see it I guess. So I'm testing the removal of said bucket and got hung up on it. After a little fighting with it, I got it free from the loader and started to back up. I looked on the ground and there is my cross bar laying there. Now me being a suave, debonair, prim and proper kind of guy, the first words out of my mouth was "WTF? For those of you that read a little bit on my quick attach know that I used a piece of spring steel for my cross bar. After looking at the breaks, I now wonder if it is a lot stronger than that. Either way, it snapped off. 600RIDER said that he used a piece of 1-¼ round stock because he said thats what Kubota used. I'm pretty sure that I have something like this in the scrap pile so now I get to do a repair on the quick attach. Lesson for the day, dont use spring/hardened steel for the cross bar.
If you look where the adaptor is pinned on at the top, you can see that there isn't enough clearance for roll out. I didn't see that until I tried removing the bucket (Doh)
Here is the broken piece.
If you look where the adaptor is pinned on at the top, you can see that there isn't enough clearance for roll out. I didn't see that until I tried removing the bucket (Doh)
Here is the broken piece.