Snow Bucket

[Industrial Toys]

I did a search for this and couldn't find anything. Maybe someone would be kind enought to tell me how to do a search making BOTH words together a requirement. Thanks.

I have thought about getting a HUGE but light bucket. Maybe two yards or so. Something to clean my parking lot. A blade just requires too much back and forth and a blower doesn't move the snow far enough and usually the prevailing wind is working against me.

A PUSHER type thing might work, but is not worth getting and storing for this one area alone. Plus, I don't think they are good at stacking snow ten or so feet high, as far as I know.

A very large bucket would have applications year round for carrying large light material.

But, I was thinking about it. If you had, say half a foot of snow and had to go a couple of hundred feet, would the snow start coming out of the sides before the bucket ever filled up making the useable capacity no better then a conventional bucket?

Does anyone have experience with this?

 

[Tomtint]

I use a 84" bucket on my skidsteer. Another option would be to. Are your own snow box with a old plow you could weld sides on the ends for not much money.

 

[nybirdman]

Have you tried "light materials bucket".I know Kubota offers one as an option.You may also try
"Everything Attachments.com" or WR.Long.com

 

[Industrial Toys]

Actually, my eight foot blade is an old "Frink" blade I got at an auction. It has a Poly mouldboard, so it is not extendable. Plus it never ceases to amaze me, that with the weight of that Kubota R510, plus larger then usual wheels, the fronts being almost totally filled with horrible calcium, how that thing can be just pushed to the side by an angled blade.

I have friends that would build me a bucket in a week, but is it just a waste of money if the snow won't fill into it to any appreciable degree without spilling off the sides.

 

[deerseeker001]

I have a 84 inch bucket on my int 2500 that with 7ft back blade makes quick work of my 300 foot driveway.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I have various ways to clean my 1000 foot heavily drifting laneway without complaints. It's my parking lot that wastes me so much time, engine hours and fuel, yet I would prefer it cleared. I detest places where you can't get a large truck, never mind a p/u easily turned around.

 

[bigtiller]

Actually, my eight foot blade is an old "Frink" blade I got at an auction. It has a Poly mouldboard, so it is not extendable. Plus it never ceases to amaze me, that with the weight of that Kubota R510, plus larger then usual wheels, the fronts being almost totally filled with horrible calcium, how that thing can be just pushed to the side by an angled blade.

I have friends that would build me a bucket in a week, but is it just a waste of money if the snow won't fill into it to any appreciable degree without spilling off the sides.

On a parking lot, that is exactly what happens. I used a JD 644 front end loader with a 3 yard bucket to clean the lots. TOTAL wast of time! If there was 4 inches of snow to move, the bucket would get about 4 inches in it before it started spilling off to the sides. If you could get a really big blade on the 3ph to windrow the snow, then move the rows to your pile, it goes a lot faster.

 

[Industrial Toys]

T H A N K S ! That's EXACTLY what I needed to hear!

NOW, Plan "B' What's that?

 

[bigtiller]

T H A N K S ! That's EXACTLY what I needed to hear!

NOW, Plan "B' What's that?

I always wanted to try a snow pusher, a giant one like the airports use, but the boss couldn't get money allotted for even a small 12' one.

 

[EverythingAttachments]

Have you tried "light materials bucket".I know Kubota offers one as an option.You may also try
"Everything Attachments.com" or WR.Long.com

Thanks birdman!

We offer the WR Long Custom Buckets. They have a wide variety to choose from and do not charge any extra for different mounts(pin on or quick attach). Nelson has 800+/- drawings on file, so the customer usually doesn't have to provide us with any measurements.

The buckets ship free to a commercial business or supporting freight terminal within 1,000 miles of Newton, NC.
Travis

 

[puckgrinder85]

Pushers stack snow better than a bucket will, there is no need to roll the bucket, once the snow has room to slide out of the pusher it does and you get the extra height in the fact you don't need to dump the pusher. I had thought about welding an SSQA to our box blade as its basically the same thing but I don't know how it would do with the weight of it. Would probably work great on a heavier machine.

 

[Cord]

I use a 8' box blade on my skid steer. They will stack the snow quite nicely. You simply drive into the pile and then raise the blade at the same time. My piles are currently taller than the cab.