</font><font color="blue" class="small">( First day out he found Blue doesn't have the same quality of bucket as Iris'. )</font>
I won't argue with that, but Bud needs to get a bolt-on cutter bar and only use that cutting edge for pushing. I've had my bucket for over four years and pushed a lot of trees without a single bend in the top of the bucket.
Is Bud going to use a floor jack to put the bucket back into shape? I bet you could come up with some reinforcement that wouldn't weigh as much as your skidsteer bucket either.