first welding project - forks - again

[mikim]

Seems bucket forks are a real popular first project for beginners with a welder - ... for me too.... here's mine --
in progress

 

[mikim]

and completed

 

[mikim]

the reason I needed them this past weekend - I bought 20 acres and the previous owner left piles of junk laying around

 

[mikim]

forks made short work of moving those piles

 

[mikim]

I also made a little enhancement for them -

 

[mikim]

that enhancement worked ... sort of ... limited success - but don't know if it was the teeths fault or my operation of them - wife kept saying I wasn't hitting the brush at the correct angle --- made them for yaupon removal - trying it out here on some small ones - will try again when I have more time. We were in a hurry this day to finish mowing the pasture and doing the cleanup we wanted to get done.

 

[NCDeere]

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Hey, your forks look real nice. I was wondering though, how do you fix them? I see they fit on the front of your bucket but is the back side fixed in any way? My brother-in-law made a set similar to yours. He welded a piece of angle to the bottom back side of his bucket that had drilled and tapped holes in it. He said he wanted to fix them.

So if yours are fixed, how did you do it?

Thanks,

Bryan

 

[mikim]

Check the second pic ... see the hooks coming in from the back? I welded a chain on the bottom of the fork at the back where it extends under the bucket then ran it up the back and planned on hooking it into those slots I cut in the vertical pieces with a chain binder .... but the distance from that slot to where the bucket bends in the back was too short for the binders I have - so for now I used a turnbuckle .... will change that to a small binder when I get a round tuit.

 

[Mike_C]

Very nice forks! I may have to build some for mine one day.

 

[creeper]

Looks good to me!