What should I do with my old front bucket?

[Cataclysm]

I'd make the 3pt scoop out of it with the mentioned hydraulic top link. You could move a lot of material with a scoop at each end.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

 

[npalen]

$100 seems to be about the going price for a pin on bucket, because the dealers always have a large supply of them already from all the "idiots" like me that buy a tractor with a pin on bucket and later convert them to SSQA. But for another $150 invested and some cutting and welding time you can have another useful bucket that you can do anything with and can save the wear and tear of your new SSQA bucket. It is great to have two buckets and one you can beat on and abuse a bit if you have to. It can be the one to put the toothbar on to dig better with, or yes even to mix concrete in. . It can be whatever you want it to be, and will be so much more useful than the $100 you might get out of it by trying to sell it as is.

Take two spare buckets, lay them "face to face", add a hinge and a cylinder(s) to make a clamshell bucket?

 

[npalen]

I'd make the 3pt scoop out of it with the mentioned hydraulic top link. You could move a lot of material with a scoop at each end.

and they counterbalance each other.

 

[Gee Ray]

I saw a video about a guy building a plywood extension onto his bucket so that he could move leaves and sticks round his place.

 

[s219]

Some good arguments in favor of keeping it. I think I'll park it in the woods for a bit and mull things over...