BX24 Quick Attach FEL Bucket / Forks / Trailer Spotter

bx24 · May 13, 2012

John

I was the same way (hesitating to before major mods) but two things made it easier for me .... Age of the tractor and lack of other options

This tractor is approaching 5 years old and I finally went through a "mid-life" crisis moment asking myself "I know I will one day do this ... what am I waiting for"

As for carving up the existing bucket, the only other alternative that I could come up with was to go from one tilt cylinder to two but that would have been even more "major surgery" on the FEL arms as well. At least this way only the bucket had to be modified. I hope to get some orange paint back on it in the coming weeks (I used whatever color rattle can paint I had laying around just to stop the rust)

GE222 · May 13, 2012

Excellent job! It really worked out nice.
And the hood is back on too!

Just2quickz28 · May 14, 2012

Great work! Keep an eye on the center cylinder bucket attachment point. That was the failure point for when ATI produced theirs. I have had no issues with mine with the ATI model, after 2+ years of hard work.

Ductape · May 14, 2012

Just2quickz28 said:
Great work! Keep an eye on the center cylinder bucket attachment point. That was the failure point for when ATI produced theirs. I have had no issues with mine with the ATI model, after 2+ years of hard work.

Are there a few pictures on here of your ATI set-up? If there is, could you link to the thread?

Just2quickz28 · May 14, 2012

Ductape said:
Are there a few pictures on here of your ATI set-up? If there is, could you link to the thread?

Here is the old thread on it. There are some pictures in there somewhere.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/113942-bx-fel-bucket-quick-attach.html

bx24 · May 14, 2012

Just2quickz28 said:
Great work! Keep an eye on the center cylinder bucket attachment point. That was the failure point for when ATI produced theirs. I have had no issues with mine with the ATI model, after 2+ years of hard work.

I used 1/4" thick 2" square tubing for the top bar / rail. As I tested it a bit loading up the forks I did not get any measurable deflection. I probably made it beefier than I needed to but so far everything has worked out great. Of the three attachments (bucket, forks and trailer spotter), I probably use the spotter the most followed by the forks. I am looking forward to building a couple more attachments for the front

bx24 · May 14, 2012

BTW to everyone ... when I pulled out the pins for the bucket they had grease on them but apparently not enough because there was some wear on both the pins and the DOM tubing they sit in. Make sure you grease the cr-p out of your pivot points!

gtrippleb · May 16, 2012

Thanks for the ideas and the pictures. I've been looking at making my bucket quick attach capable for awhile now but haven't taken the plunge yet.

For $699 you could have picked up one of these:

Tach-N-Go, Loader Buddy, small loader Quick attach and attachments

The sc2400 has pretty much the same loader design as the BX. I wish Yanmar would have went with the double arm/cylinder design like they did on the 2305 and their "Red" version of Sc2400. It would be a lot easier making the loader Quick Attach capable.