Backhoe Backhoe bucket

[LBrown59]

MarkV, and laurencen are correct about the clay sticking in a small bucket. *Anything smaller than a 12" bucket can be frustrating. This can be so bad that it renders the buck useless.

I have a 6" bucket, and after considerable time spent on this, have the following suggestions for small bucket users:

Forget about the piece of chain, putting holes in it, using silicone, or Pam, etc. I have tried them all.

If you have clay soil, dig when the ground is dry.

If you find the soil is sticking, the best way to get it to release, is to shake the bucket upward, (after you curl it), with the open side facing up. Using this technique, along with not trying to take really big bites, (that just packs it in tighter). I can dig at a reasonable speed, and avoid having to constantly get off the machine and clear the bucket. Shaking it open side down, (when dumping it), is futile. This actually packs it in tighter.

This kind of digging is hard on your equipment, it causes accelerated wear on everything.

If you have a lot of narrow digging to do, rent a trencher. It's fast and easy.

I have a 10'' bucket on my BX23.
Don't stick unless I get into some really sticky mucky mud.

 

[Kay's Boy]

While on the subject of backhoe buckets does anyone have any expirience with the ripper tooth bucket offered by bro-tek.biz? I am considering trying it on my KB2475. Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[IslandTractor]

While on the subject of backhoe buckets does anyone have any expirience with the ripper tooth bucket offered by bro-tek.biz? I am considering trying it on my KB2475. Any advice would be appreciated.

Welcome to TBN Kay's Boy (I'm thinking that is going to become KBoy for short).

No experience with that ripper tooth bucket. Most ripper tooth buckets are used on very large excavators digging frozen ground or digging shale etc. Do you mean a true ripper tooth bucket or just a ripper tooth attachment to tear up roots? I know BroTek offers those and they look pretty handy if you have a lot of trees to uproot.

 

[JoelD]

MarkV, and laurencen are correct about the clay sticking in a small bucket. Anything smaller than a 12" bucket can be frustrating. This can be so bad that it renders the buck useless.

I have a 6" bucket, and after considerable time spent on this, have the following suggestions for small bucket users:

Forget about the piece of chain, putting holes in it, using silicone, or Pam, etc. I have tried them all.

If you have clay soil, dig when the ground is dry.

If you find the soil is sticking, the best way to get it to release, is to shake the bucket upward, (after you curl it), with the open side facing up. Using this technique, along with not trying to take really big bites, (that just packs it in tighter). I can dig at a reasonable speed, and avoid having to constantly get off the machine and clear the bucket. Shaking it open side down, (when dumping it), is futile. This actually packs it in tighter.

This kind of digging is hard on your equipment, it causes accelerated wear on everything.

If you have a lot of narrow digging to do, rent a trencher. It's fast and easy.

Or move to where I live and there is no such thing as soil, just variably sized rocks. Seriously, where I live, and there is no such thing as clay or sand, I find a trenching bucket works great. Wish I had the plugging problem. What would be good for me and my loader would be a rock bucket so I could at least sort out the supper small rocks (dirt) from all others.

I'd love to have a loader rock bucket, but I'm thinking big money.

Joel

 

[Kay's Boy]

Island

Thanks for the welcome. The information on this forum is staggering, a wonderous resource for a first timer such as myself. Learning every day and loving every minute of it. I just passed 100 hours.

The ripper tooth Bro-Tek.biz offers would replace the original 16" bucket. It appears that it could be useful as a narrow/shallow trencher but I am looking at it to stump some hardwoods that were cut at some point in the past and have now regrown as clumps with a shared root system. And as Joel D points out this is NH and one thing we've got is rocks. These NH hardwoods have an uncanny ability to wrap themselves around every one of those rocks. I'm thinking this ripper tooth could be just the ticket to separate them.

I am also curious how it may work with my mechanical thumb.

 

[IslandTractor]

How many and how big are the stumps you are trying to pull out? A ripper tooth might be ideal but there are other ways to get them. You have a heavy tractor that could also pull them out if they are not too big.

 

[Kay's Boy]

Island
Most are in the 4-10" range and will require the BH. I have used an old pallet puller to rip out smaller ( 2-4") trees in one piece with great sucess. The CK27 is one tough little tractor.

Of course she is not pulling any stumps this time of the year, we're plowing snow. 5 to 10 more inches expected tomorrow.

 

[sodamo]

Thanks for all the advice. We do have sticky, claytype soil if wet. Even worse is the lack of traction. I'd dig when dry.

Well, I guess if Rick really really wanted to deliver a bucket, the least I could do would be put him up for a week.

David