Bucket to QA conversion
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NH-Rob
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It would be nice to not have to cut the ears off on a bucket conversion like yours but I would think that you will lose a lot of break out force with that set up. I hope it works well for you though.
Rob
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Milton Burro
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I know I added a few inches length to the FEL and will lose some lifting capacity because of it. It was a trade I was willing to make because of the ease of adaptation.
tigers2007
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I'm interesting in converting to QA too. I called my "local" Koyker dealer and they said it would be about $350 to change the pin-on guts to QA for the loader end and then it was some crazy expensive price for a weld-on plate. I think i'm going to buy one off of eBay for $100 (5/16" steel). Does anyone have an idea on how much it will cost for a welder to weld that plate on? I plan of cutting off the old pin-on crap off of the bucket with a wheel.
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Milton Burro
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No hi jack. My QA pins onto the loader just like the bucket did. I ordered it loader specific for that. It shouldn't cost 350.00 to pin the QA adapter on your loader. Is that the cost of the QA attachment too?
Ductape
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Whats funny is......... when I bought my SSQA off of Craigslist, it came with a plate just like that, so the original bucket could be pinned to it without modification. I cut the brackets off of it and it left me with a nice additional SSQA plate for my next project, since I permanently modified the back of my factory bucket. Two ways to skin a cat, I reckon.
Ductape
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If you were closer, I'd be happy to weld the QA plate on your bucket for the cost of materials, plus a case of beer.
tigers2007
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Milton, with my Koyker and probably even yours, we need need a kit that converts the pin-on style to the Quick Attach style. The adapter kit is pinned on to the loader side and has a quick attach on the other side. They want about $350 -- quite worth it as I can now use my neighbors attachments. My original plan was just to buy a bucket that was already setup for quick attach (like almost all Skidsteer loaders). I have been scouring eBay and craigslist and realized that even a used QA bucket will set you back 500-1200 easy. So its obvious that it would be waaaay cheaper for me to just cut the pin-on stuff on the old bucket and then have a pro weld the QA plate to the back of the bucket. About $100 for the plate and hopefully less than $120 for the welder (I plan on taking all of the materials to the welder).
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Milton Burro
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I get it Tigers. I just didn't want to cut on my oem bucket. I guess I'm just **** about keeping it oem if I ever want to put it back w/o QA.
tigers2007
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Well I don't think its out of the question purchase one of those $100 adapter plates and then engineer brackets that could link to the pin-on hardware on the bucket end.