Has anyone used a ‘dumpster bucket’ on their loader?

[MossRoad]

Somewhere on the PowerTrac forum a member made a leaf bucket out of a heating oil tank. It was BIG.

 

[MossRoad]

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Large Bucket Container.

Large Bucket Container. Has anyone made a large container bucket or bought one for a PT 425/422? I am talking about one that would hold about 50 cubit feet of material. I am thinking about building one and would like to see or hear some ideas. Maybe one that you could make from an old oil...

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[Fxfymn413]

Get the bucket sprayed with bed liner to limit rust.

Be careful with over sized buckets. An overloaded bucket has the ability to break a tractor in half. It happened to a friend when he loaded his 1710 bucket with stone by hand. He was able to put much more stone in the bucket than he could have by loading the bucket with the tractor. When he hit a bump it broke the bell housing into two pieces.

 

[Lena]

I have a horses and they generate a good amount of manure. Daily I rake up the manure and fill plastic trash cans with it. Then I empty the manure into my tractor bucket and use the tractor to dump the manure into the big dumpster on the street.

Today I came across this dumpster bucket.

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It’s oversize, similar to a light/bulk material bucket. It holds about 3X the capacity of my current regular bucket.

It seems like just the ticket to fill and dump manure. The only drawback would be it doesn’t have a scraper edge. Also, it may rust.. but any metal bucket will.

Has anyone used one of these? Are there downsides I don’t yet realize?

 

[Lena]

Here it is... Member name is 'stray'. Hasn't been active since 12/23...

Large Bucket Container.

Large Bucket Container. Has anyone made a large container bucket or bought one for a PT 425/422? I am talking about one that would hold about 50 cubit feet of material. I am thinking about building one and would like to see or hear some ideas. Maybe one that you could make from an old oil...

www.tractorbynet.com

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I have a horses and they generate a good amount of manure. Daily I rake up the manure and fill plastic trash cans with it. Then I empty the manure into my tractor bucket and use the tractor to dump the manure into the big dumpster on the street.

Today I came across this dumpster bucket.

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It’s oversize, similar to a light/bulk material bucket. It holds about 3X the capacity of my current regular bucket.

It seems like just the ticket to fill and dump manure. The only drawback would be it doesn’t have a scraper edge. Also, it may rust.. but any metal bucket will.

Has anyone used one of these? Are there downsides I don’t yet realize?

With all the manure mentioned, why not just get a manure spreader? When it's full spread it around.

 

[inchman]

I have a horses and they generate a good amount of manure. Daily I rake up the manure and fill plastic trash cans with it. Then I empty the manure into my tractor bucket and use the tractor to dump the manure into the big dumpster on the street.

Today I came across this dumpster bucket.

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View attachment 4117405

It’s oversize, similar to a light/bulk material bucket. It holds about 3X the capacity of my current regular bucket.

It seems like just the ticket to fill and dump manure. The only drawback would be it doesn’t have a scraper edge. Also, it may rust.. but any metal bucket will.

Has anyone used one of these? Are there downsides I don’t yet realize?

One problem I can see is that if the manure is wet, it may stick in the bucket, then you'll only be able to half fill it each time unless you scrape the stuck stuff out each time. FWIW, how many trips are you making now? If you are making 6 and this will cut it to 2, it might not be worth it. Is there any way to have the dumpster stationed closer to the barn?