Clamp on Bucket Forks for Kubota SCUT Stink :(

[snpower]

A couple years back I bought a set of these clamp on type bucket forks from Ebay. USA Steel, great construction. The problem is, no matter how hard I tighten them, the move around or fall off. It's so bad they've been sitting unused for two years; I just hauled them out to give it another go. I just wanted to be able to pick up brush, maybe some logs - occasional use. Sounds silly but is there any technique or trick to making these things work better? The image below represents the kind they are, but these aren't from the seller I used.

 

[k0ua]

A couple years back I bought a set of these clamp on type bucket forks from Ebay. USA Steel, great construction. The problem is, no matter how hard I tighten them, the move around or fall off. It's so bad they've been sitting unused for two years; I just hauled them out to give it another go. I just wanted to be able to pick up brush, maybe some logs - occasional use. Sounds silly but is there any technique or trick to making these things work better? The image below represents the kind they are, but these aren't from the seller I used.

Yes, weld chains on them and go around under the bucket and back over and use a chain binder to hold them on. That is what I did with mine. And that works. Then I sold them and got a set of SSQA pallet forks, when I converted to SSQA. As they came they were a frustration. They came off if they drug the ground and they also tilted in or out too easily with any side pressure. I tried to increase the pad size, and other things to try to improve them as simple clamp on's, but I was never satisfied with them. When I went SSQA, it was like day and night.

 

[Gary Fowler]

If you have no need to adjust the width frequently, I would set them in a fixed position to fit a standard pallet and then weld a couple of cross brackets to them to make them solid and fixed width. Then you would only have to contend with them falling off as KOua's problem, but they should then stay fixed position straight ahead. A piece of angle welded across the back and then a flat bar welded in front of the attachment point should work well.

 

[k0ua]

If you have no need to adjust the width frequently, I would set them in a fixed position to fit a standard pallet and then weld a couple of cross brackets to them to make them solid and fixed width. Then you would only have to contend with them falling off as KOua's problem, but they should then stay fixed position straight ahead. A piece of angle welded across the back and then a flat bar welded in front of the attachment point should work well.

But if you weld them together, then you can't lift them. Mine weighed about 80 lbs each.