Bucket Hook Project

[weldingisfun]

I called every hardware, industrial supply, farm and tractor supply place within 25 miles and not one stocked the hooks. I gave up and went online to this place:
TrucknTow - Weld-On Grab Hooks (Pellican Hooks)

They are sending 3 hooks to me. Cost $8 S&H, but I'll have my hooks on the 30th. Thanks for checking into it for me.

 

[wushaw]

That's not a bad price, ya should have ordered a few extra for the project that you haven't thought of yet since you don't have a local resource...you may need one or two on something like on a trailer or some implement other than the FEL bucket.
I have an extra hanging on the wall waiting on that "I shure ccould use a hook on this"....whatever it may be.

 

[WayneB]

nice job and I like the critics too!

 

[HangarDebris]

Some off the wall considerations for hooks, especially for us guys with small cylinders. Placing your hooks where the lift point is as far to the rear as possible means a reduced moment arm and increased lifting capacity (for the sake of lifting as opposed to dragging). Lifting plumb from the rear of the bucket as apposed to the front lip of the bucket reduces the MA the width of the bucket or about 20%

 

[bcarwell]

Sandlot,
I am a beginning welder and to my unpracticed eye it looks like your welds were a single pass, correct ? I got a used Dialarc thinking I'd need all that "oomf" for thick 1/2 in. plate steel and assumed a 100VAC Mig might do nice looking welds but maybe would require multiple passes for thick stuff encountered in farm/ranch fabbing. But if done single pass on your 1/4 in. plate that nicely I'm rapidly thinking maybe now's the time for a Mig welder... (Christmas, hmmmm....) I know I want to still keep paying my dues with a stick welder, but ...

Bob