Members home made attachments / improvements

[toy]

I have found that my wife can derail a lot of my plans for the weekends. so we now lay out what we intend to do the week before that way there are no questions asked the Friday night before.

In any case I bought a Lacklender 8 inch bucket for a future mini hoe. Since I just have it setting here doing nothing, or until I get more time and money for valves ect. I have seen fixed buckets used as teachers. Not sure if it would be any good as a temporary digger.

I would guess the angle would not work for empting the dirt, or the PT would not have enough power or clearance to dig effectively using it in that manor. I may try it to satisfy my curiosity. Even the 8 inch bucket weighs in at 65 lbs and is very elongated.

I need to dig out some of my window wells and some other projects around here if I thought it would even help dig an elongated hole using a shorter boom. I might mount it until I get around to buying the rest of the stuff.

Go for it you might come up with a really good atachment that you can get a lot of use out of. Seems like someone did something similar to that and got good results, but I can't remember who.

 

[Barryh]

Go for it you might come up with a really good atachment that you can get a lot of use out of. Seems like someone did something similar to that and got good results, but I can't remember who.

Would like to see pictures of that, and hear how that worked out. ..

 

[Rivco]

Would like to see pictures of that, and hear how that worked out. ..

Barry;
At one time LACKENDER offered a non- hydraulic dipper arm that you could add a hyd. cyl. at a later date. You had an adjustable drawbar in place of the hyd. cyl. and you adjusted the bucket curl as needed and pinned it in that position. You would have to buy the hyd. cyl. and do the bracket layout for your future cyl. use, but this might be a way for you fabricate your dipper arm and get some early use out of that 8" lackender bucket.

 

[Barryh]

Barry;
At one time LACKENDER offered a non- hydraulic dipper arm that you could add a hyd. cyl. at a later date. You had an adjustable drawbar in place of the hyd. cyl. and you adjusted the bucket curl as needed and pinned it in that position. You would have to buy the hyd. cyl. and do the bracket layout for your future cyl. use, but this might be a way for you fabricate your dipper arm and get some early use out of that 8" lackender bucket.

You’re just full of good information aren't you I'll book mark that one in my head too. I’ve been working the little PT really hard the last 4 weekends. It has been running very hot. I have to let it cool down in front of a fan in the garage.

Funny when I bought this thing, my wife had all kinds of comments. Like what do you need that thing for Today her, and her mom were sitting out on the deck watching me hauling off old tree stumps, dirt and rock back into the woods. We had an old 8 foot tall about 20 inches around, dead tree that the top had toppled over about 4 years ago. It was sitting off to the right of the deck along the wood line kinda ugly.

She said see if you can push that thing over. Well the bugs had given me a lot of help, but the tree was still somewhat solid. So I took a shot from one side and it didn't budge. Then I drove up on the higher side ground, raised the bucket up closer to the top. I pushed and it gave a just little, but still would not move.

So I did a no no, moved back about 6 inches and gave it a running start. The thing finally split into two pieces then collapsed over onto the ground with a big boom. I got a kick out of the wife standing up and cheering on the deck. Funny how things can change with a PT.

 

[ldabe]

Nice job Barry...even if it was a no-no ;~)

 

[Barryh]

For anyone interested. Here is an electric line I am burying with the ripper, and the pond as it stands now. I have to go on another rock search here on the mountain to finish filling in around the pond and then will be adding underwater lights along with landscaping around the pond area.

I’ll finally be getting some time in the next few weeks to work on some other ideas for simple attachments. Still would like to see some more pictures of other member’s inventions. I know you’re out there. I would specifically like to know if anyone has made any heavy duty dump carts for around there yard?

 

[DHS]

Barry,

Your place looks very nice. How deep can you bury cable with your ripper?

Dale

 

[Barryh]

Barry,

Your place looks very nice. How deep can you bury cable with your ripper?

Dale

Well thanks for the kind words. Between dealing with contractors installing a bathroom downstairs, and numerous other things going on around here, I have not had the time to work outside as much as I would like to. I am also clearing trees and working in the back. I'm really looking forward to the fall when it cools off, and I can run the PT without so much heat involved.

The ripper works great down to about 8 inches for a single straight line. Depending on the angle I use. The only thing that really stops it is when I hit a large rock or thick root. When that happens. I just back up a couple of inches or so and get a small running start and the root will snap in half or the rock in most cases will come to the surface.

For not being a gear driven 180. I am always surprised at the power it can bring to the table. I may have already posted this pic, but here is what the attachment has done so far in helping me with digging. Very useful around here because the soil is hard packed clay with lots of rock, shale, and roots.

If you look at the pictures above you can see some of the rocks and roots it popped up.

 

[J_J]

For anyone interested. Here is an electric line I am burying with the ripper, and the pond as it stands now. I have to go on another rock search here on the mountain to finish filling in around the pond and then will be adding underwater lights along with landscaping around the pond area.

I’ll finally be getting some time in the next few weeks to work on some other ideas for simple attachments. Still would like to see some more pictures of other member’s inventions. I know you’re out there. I would specifically like to know if anyone has made any heavy duty dump carts for around there yard?

Hi Barry, I would recommend a shorter boom, or the ripper attached to the quick attach plate. It will dig deeper with out a lot of stress. Are you going to pull the whole line with the wire in it, through the dirt with the ripper? If you haven't thought of this, you can weld a short piece of chain to the back of the ripper, attached to a 3/4 female pipe, or whatever size pipe and just screw the electric pipe into it and pull the whole assembly. Also if you are going to pull the pipe through the trench, try and not use straight couplings, they tend to catch on things. The best way is to glue a pipe inside of another pipe, with out using a coupling.

 

[woodlandfarms]

Just finished a shrub bucket. It is posted in the Build it Yourself area (was not sure if I could do reposts or double posts...)

Carl