bent bucket repair
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Possibly but Not necessarily.
Tractor Manufacturers put rather skimpy buckets on these types of tractors as a point of least resistance to protect the rest of the lift system.
What distorts fels the most is uneven load or lift distribution like when ppl try to use the corner of the bucket to dig out while lifting a rock or such.
I could b wrong of course but This damage looks more like a “push” situation with the bucket doing what it was supposed to do. I also wonder if something didn’t strike the bucket from the side creating the dent.
At any rate, this bucket distortion is what l would consider a minor deviation. I have seen a lot worse bucket damage from customers who used a cut or scut in ways it’s not designed for.
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I could be even more wrong, but to me, it looks like the bucket hit the side hard as they were backing up and turning.
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I have seen a bucket sort of like this when a customer backed into his bucket hard with his zero turn he was trying to maneuver in his shed.
But as l think about it, a rock would have to be in position just right to create this damage.
To your point, it does look more like a side strike.
Could very well have happened before the op borrowed it and even the owner may not have been aware of it if a family member hit it with something unbeknownst.
Who knows.
It’s an easy fix though or we could turn it into some type of “who dunnit” murder mystery just for fun.
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Why?
It’s not a given the borrower did it.
Fix it yes but spend $600 or $700 for a new one assumes a premise that may not be true.
I’m in the camp that no one is borrowing my stuff. I’ll go to the would be borrower’s site and do it myself first to avoid any controversy that may ensue with “borrowing”.
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Maybe somebody already mentioned this. But this is how I would do this repair. My brother in law folded his bucket up on his JD 7210 and I think I used 3 tabs to keep everything aligned. It turned out acceptable when done.
It’s the right thing to do. A person that doesn’t look a tractor over and notice THAT before using it is the type of person to bend the crap out of a bucket and say it must have been like that when I got it.
Next time rent the machinery you need with insurance.
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That’s a stretch and you know it.
He didn’t say it was like that. He asked if it was because he couldn’t think cleaning out mud could cause this.
What if he didn’t do it?
He’s at least fixing it.
You weren’t there. I wasn’t there so there is really nothing to start accusing ppl with beyond supposition?
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I know not to loan you anything.
