LA681 HD Bucket with chain hooks

[AndyR]

I remeber seeing some posts with folks asking about chain hook placement. The attached is a shot of the heavy duty bucket on an LA681 loader. I've seen similar setups on the light duty bucket but with a 1/4" thick plate welded across the top tube to the bend in the bucket for reinforcement.

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[Boondox]

Nice, Andy! I almost went with the HD bucket on my L3010, but let myself be talked out of it. The extra width was more important to me than the ruggedness because I needed something able to carry logs 4x the length of firewood for my woodstove. With your rig, however, it looks like I could have carried logs 6x stove length and got the job done faster!

Pete