Materials..how much weight in your bucket... FYI

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Shawk

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Thought this info might to helpful to a few others as well. Found this on JD's web site... lists approx weights per bucket loads (all struck capacity & includes a bucket weight of 153lbs)... Most owners here seem to recommend a bucket that is just wide enough to cover your tracks. I was also curious how much weight would actually be sitting in my bucket... Hope this is helpful to someone else as well...

49" bucket 53" bucket 61" bucket
5.7 cu ft 7.6 8.7 cu ft

Wood chips 256 297 347
Wet snow 438 540 625
Dry loam 586 738 851
Gravel 695 882 1017
Dry sand 723 920 1060
 
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Don't forget manure...25#'s a cu foot gets you 295, 343, and 370 in those buckets...that's a lot of **** /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
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That's really useful. Thanks for posting it.

Does anyone know if other manufacturers post data on the bucket capacities rather than just width? I cannot find that info for my Kioti 54 inch bucket.
 
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Don't forget manure...25#'s a cu foot gets you 295, 343, and 370 in those buckets...that's a lot of **** /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif )</font>

hmph... Manure is doesnt weigh much more than wood chips. Interesting. My farm hand moves about 60 Cu Ft. of Horse manure and wood shavings, daily.
 
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Interesting. Could have sworn my (guess it's 53") bucket held the same 1/2 yard (13.5 cu.ft.) as my Gravely cart. Can calculate the amount the cart will hold, but the uneven bucket wasn't possible to do so. In hauling mulch with both, they seemed to hold the same.

This is with the bucket brim full.

Ralph
 
   / Materials..how much weight in your bucket... FYI
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Tried to locate something for ya... but I couldn't find anything. Give your dealer a buzz. They should have something. Good luck.
 
   / Materials..how much weight in your bucket... FYI #7  
The specs for most loaders and/or buckets will typically quote the bucket volume in terms of cubic yards. A typical CUT sized loader might have a 1/4 to 1/2 yard bucket or 0.25 to 0.5 cu-yds. It might also be expressed in cu-ft or cu-meteres, or liters, or some other measure of volume.

Sometimes two numbers are quoted - heaped and struck. Struck being if the material was level with the edges of the bucket (held open end up) as if a straightedge was pulled across, striking off the excess.

Heaped, while more closely matching real world use, is less precise because various materials "heap" at different angles. Water won't heap up at all while big chunks of sticky clay might hold an 80 degree slope without falling out of the bucket.

Convert the volume to cubic-feet.

Then multiply by the weight per cu-foot of the material in the bucket.

Some weights of common materials in lbs per cubic foot:

Aluminum, solid: 165
Brick, Red: 120 (packed solid)
Brick, Fire: 150 (packed solid)
Caliche: 90
Cement, Poortland: 95
Cement, Mortar: 135
Cedar, Red: 24
Clay, Dry, Excavated: 68
Clay, Wet Excavated: 114
Concrete: 150
Eartt, loam, dry, excavated: 78
Earth, moist, excavated: 90
Earth, wet, excavated: 100
Earth, dense: 125
Fir, Douglas: 33
Garbage: 30
Granite, solid: 163
Granite, broken: 103
Gravel, loose, dry: 95
Gravel, with sand, natural: 120
Gravel 1/4 to 2, dry: 95
Gravel, 1/4 to 2, wet: 125
Gypsum, broken: 113
Hay, pressed: 24
Ice, solid: 57
Ice, crushed: 37
Iron, solid: 450-486
Lead, solid: 708-711
Limestone, broken: 97
Manure: 25
Mortar, wet: 150
Mud, packed: 119
Mud, flowing: 108
Oak: 44-59
Sand, dry, loose 100
Sand, wet: 130
Snow, fresh: 10
Snow, compacted: 30
Turf: 25
Water: 63
 
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Good stuff... thanks for the additional info /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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Your loader operators manual should tell you the volume of your bucket, that's where I found mine. Mine says it's .43 cy.

Then to find weights of hundreds of materials (and information on just about anything else you can think of) get the Pocket Ref by Thomas J. Glover. It's an amazing little reference book.
 
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Great list... But you forgot somethings... I don't see Gold and Silver /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 

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