scooping load into fel bucket

[Deere Dude]

Maybe need to try a piece of light sheet metal, I'm thinking 16ga max, with ends folded up 90 degrees and would clamp in the bucket. I'm thinking it would more readily slide under the pile rather than pushing it.
Make sense?

Unless I misunderstand it, it wouldn't work for me. It would be trashed in a heartbeat.

k0ua had the method I like best.

 

[npalen]

Think of it as a FEL dust pan. Easier to move dirt over a thin edge rather than a 1/2" or 3/4" bucket edge.
Seriously, it would be an easy on/off light duty cleanup device but not for excavating. I could see it as being hinged at each end so it could be flipped up and over to the back/top of the bucket to act as a backstop for increased bucket capacity. No, I'm not drinking anything--other than coffee.

 

[ptsg]

Think of it as a FEL dust pan. Easier to move dirt over a thin edge rather than a 1/2" or 3/4" bucket edge.
Seriously, it would be an easy on/off light duty cleanup device but not for excavating. I could see it as being hinged at each end so it could be flipped up and over to the back/top of the bucket to act as a backstop for increased bucket capacity. No, I'm not drinking anything--other than coffee.

Dust pan? I've always thought that my FEL was a dust pan and a broom combo!

 

[npalen]

Well now we're talking! Got any more pictures and description?

 

[ptsg]

Well now we're talking! Got any more pictures and description?

I just have a video.

This was a quick and dirty project. More like a proof of concept than anything else.

If it worked well, I would improve it. Make some guards, add wheels to adjust the broom height.

Ended up working perfectly but I sold the tractor shortly after. So I never took some proper pictures of it.

The loader was homemade, mounted on a Kubota B7000. I added a third function valve.

Coupled a Parker F11 hydraulic motor (the ones used in firewood processing head's saws) to a really compact reducing gearbox. Then two pulleys and a belt to the brooms. It's 1 meter wide (40").

It had a steel cable attached from the broom structure to the loader cross member. This would lift the broom automatically when dumping the bucket.

It has 4 sets of brooms. A combination of 60 cm and 40cm wide brooms as I could find 50 cm ones.

All done with stuff I had laying around except from the brooms and hoses.

Hydraulic broom - YouTube

 

[npalen]

Nice work! Not pretty but then proof of concept prototypes are not supposed to be pretty.

 

[Industrial Toys]

That sweeper thing is pretty much what I was thinking about.

When I collect debris with my Harley Rake, this is pretty much the only resource I have to get the stuff into the bucket. A pitch fork works too.

 

[npalen]

That reminds of the local city maintenance guys using a skid steer to push the small piles into the payloader bucket. Seems to work well.

 

[Xfaxman]

I thought I was the only one that did the "push it in the bucket trick":

 

[Geotech]

I know pile isn't very big, it is gravel from driveway in spots that had too much, can't really combine piles and they are too far away, and piles are big enough where shoveling is a pain, although I have done some shoveling towards to end.

Can you just spread it on the driveway? Drag it to areas with less gravel with a box blade?