Salt/sand box for the driveway

[BigAl]

If you just have a set of holes in the side of the bucket for the steel bar to pin into in and retaining stops on the bucket so the bar can't go to far foward you can just drive into the pile and the steel bar will flip "back"out of the way so you can load .Along the same idea as a "one way check valve" design . That way you can load and when you go to dump the bar will return to it's blocking position to keep the whole load from dumping at one time .
Big Al

 

[GoodGuy]

By chance, any pictures ??
Neat Idea !!

 

[BigAl]

No ,I sold that tractor and have not made up one for my new one yet ,so I do not have pictures avalible. Sorry
Big Al

 

[GoodGuy]

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[PILOON]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Have any of you built such a thing ? If so any pics ?
Hints and tips most welcomed ! I'm thinking about 2x6 PT Tongue in groove wood with some sort of covered bin at the bottom . Thanks , John )</font>

I have a hill problem, similar.
One thought I had was to use a 3pt mounted fertilizer spreader, you know, the large cone shaped funnel that is driven by the PTO.
It has adjustements for the amount of product to spread.
Only problem is how to load it if you have only one tractor!

Meanwhile I use a large 'walk behind' spreader that I modified by locking both wheels so that they both drive the flinging disk as otherwise the one wheel would simply skid along.

One loading usually covers about 100-150 ft of my driveway hill.

Actually with sand/salt you want to spread like 'salt and pepper' and not fling a whole lot.

Sure beats the shovel and stick method.

 

[TOMDUALLY]

Could you use one of these, seams easy enough to build and you can load it with your FEL and then pull it down the road with your pickup.

 

[TOMDUALLY]

this is a close-up of the spreader it is made from an old differential inverted, when pulled it throws sand or salt across the roadway.

Maybe someone else can enlarge these photo's so you can see them a little clearer, I had trouble trying to get them small enough to be accepted now you can't see them /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[bobodu]

Hope this works...
TOMDUALLY's spreader..

 

[TOMDUALLY]

bobodu, thanks you can see it in more detail on your enlargment /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif