daTeacha
Veteran Member
I have a set of homemade teeth on the bucket of the LX114 loader on my DX29. The cutting edge was already drilled for a toothbar, but I just made my own.
I used 3" channel steel for the teeth, cutting pieces that would protrude about 6 inches in front of the cutting edge. The back of each one is welded to another section of channel steel that goes the width of the bucket and keeps individual teeth from rotating while also spreading any load on the teeth over a wider area. The whole rig is bolted through the cutting edge with 1/2" grade 5 bolts. The softer ones just get torn up.
I had a similar rig on my B7100, but it didn't have holes in the cutting edge. I made up the toothbar similar to the one described -- think of two upper case letter "E"s stacked vertically. The sideways bar was matched by another piece of channel on the inside of the bucket and each tooth had a bolt and big washer jjsut behind the cutting edge. Again, this kept the teeth in place and also prevented the bolts from tearing through the bucket steel. I bent a tooth now and then, but never hurt the bucket.
If your goat manure is like our sheep manure, you have lots of used hay mixed in, much different from horse, donkey, or even cattle manure. The stringy mass is not easy to pick up since it all tends to stick together. You can't easily get the bucket edge into it since the randomly spread hay keeps it from penetrating. The teeth help a lot, as would manure tines.
You may want to think about adding a grapple to the bucket. With my Add-a-Grapple from Precision Machine, I can push into the stuff with the teeth, tip the bucket forward, push a little more so I get a pile in front of the bucket, then close the grapple on it while rolling the bucket back. I end up with an honest double filled bucket of the the stringy stuff, far more than I could ever pick up without the grapple. It really makes cleaning the barn much easier.
The grapple is also handy for lots of other chores, like moving brush and logs, rocks, you name it.
I used 3" channel steel for the teeth, cutting pieces that would protrude about 6 inches in front of the cutting edge. The back of each one is welded to another section of channel steel that goes the width of the bucket and keeps individual teeth from rotating while also spreading any load on the teeth over a wider area. The whole rig is bolted through the cutting edge with 1/2" grade 5 bolts. The softer ones just get torn up.
I had a similar rig on my B7100, but it didn't have holes in the cutting edge. I made up the toothbar similar to the one described -- think of two upper case letter "E"s stacked vertically. The sideways bar was matched by another piece of channel on the inside of the bucket and each tooth had a bolt and big washer jjsut behind the cutting edge. Again, this kept the teeth in place and also prevented the bolts from tearing through the bucket steel. I bent a tooth now and then, but never hurt the bucket.
If your goat manure is like our sheep manure, you have lots of used hay mixed in, much different from horse, donkey, or even cattle manure. The stringy mass is not easy to pick up since it all tends to stick together. You can't easily get the bucket edge into it since the randomly spread hay keeps it from penetrating. The teeth help a lot, as would manure tines.
You may want to think about adding a grapple to the bucket. With my Add-a-Grapple from Precision Machine, I can push into the stuff with the teeth, tip the bucket forward, push a little more so I get a pile in front of the bucket, then close the grapple on it while rolling the bucket back. I end up with an honest double filled bucket of the the stringy stuff, far more than I could ever pick up without the grapple. It really makes cleaning the barn much easier.
The grapple is also handy for lots of other chores, like moving brush and logs, rocks, you name it.
