Vigo327
Platinum Member
Once you have a hydraulic top link it would be pretty easy to turn basically any pin-on loader bucket into a dumping rear bucket. Most FELs have the loader arms much wider than typical cat1 3pt arms. As long as you don't need to leave that area clear because of an SSQA-related situation you can weld 3pt bracketry on the back of a bucket and as long as your lateral 'brace' in your loader arms isn't that close to the bottom the new brackets probably wouldn't even interfere with anything if you put the bucket back on the FEL. Heck, if the bucket went back on the FEL the top link bracket would make a pretty good lifting point on the center rear of bucket.
Normal top link attachment geometry wouldn't let you 'dump' a bucket even with a hydraulic top link, but.. once you have a hydraulic top link you could simply move that attachment point down closer to the draw pins to exaggerate that movement and still be able to make it do 'normal' 3pt stuff too. It wouldn't be 'self leveling' anymore, but neither are most FELs and we get by, eh. I dont think you'd need a lot of 'breakout force' using the bucket back there and it would also require most buckets to be seriously reinforced for a center curl cylinder anyway if you tried to put the beans to it. I think good enough is good enough, as long as you can get it a little below flat when backing into stuff, and get it to dump whatever you put in it.
Maybe i should just try it..
Normal top link attachment geometry wouldn't let you 'dump' a bucket even with a hydraulic top link, but.. once you have a hydraulic top link you could simply move that attachment point down closer to the draw pins to exaggerate that movement and still be able to make it do 'normal' 3pt stuff too. It wouldn't be 'self leveling' anymore, but neither are most FELs and we get by, eh. I dont think you'd need a lot of 'breakout force' using the bucket back there and it would also require most buckets to be seriously reinforced for a center curl cylinder anyway if you tried to put the beans to it. I think good enough is good enough, as long as you can get it a little below flat when backing into stuff, and get it to dump whatever you put in it.
Maybe i should just try it..