Snow Stacking snow with FEL

Egon · Feb 3, 2003

Okay, a wet 32F seems cold. After a life of DRY -30F please just give me that wet cold 32F. The internal warmer upper is nice watever the temp.

A humid house is supposed to feel warmer than a dry house. Outside high humidity is alleged to be colder than low humidity.
I'm confused but have noticed that that the terrible cold wet humidity does not seem to require the same degree of warm clothes the dry cold does.
Egon

skent · Feb 4, 2003

Used steel that was just sitting around, doing nothing. I had a few chunks. was around 3/16" thick,, 18" X 48". So the extension added 18 inches out front and 18" high on the sides. Reinforced with 1 X 1" angle iron. Weighs less then 75 pounds (in guessing) so I can manuver it alone. I have two 4" wide skids on the botton to keep it off the gravel.

I'm not real good at welding, I can make it stick real good, but don't look too close at the bead. (Whadda ya want for nuttin????)

I don't think I would have made it any longer, since my dump height is now limited.

Helps alot since I have one area in the driveway that drifts badly. Can get 3 or 4 feet deep. Taking bigger bites make it much easier.

Works well for mulch too.

SteveV · Feb 4, 2003

There's a reason for celebration here: I just got my Kubota skin applied (it wasn't immediately available with the new software)!!! It looks cool with its orange backrounds. The other thing that you provided is the ability to make the bucket bigger. One of the things i don't like about the stock Kubota design is the lack of rollback to flip things in the bucket. Your design doesn't necessarily have to extend the bucket parallel to the existing bottom but could be angled up to provide more rollback. An extension on the top edge would prevent material from falling back on the operator when fully elevated and rolled back. The bolt on side edges you used will allow this bottom angle to be changed. Good job, you just saved me from taking a more complicated path! SteveV /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

emery · Feb 4, 2003

Skent, Yours is alot bigger than mine and I'm jealous. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Nice job with the enlargement.

Anonymous Poster · Feb 5, 2003

snow rules for tractor fun /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

gerard · Feb 5, 2003

Great job skent -just about exactly what I have planned for a spring project. Just bought a torch set to cut the plate. Can't quite see in the picture - do your sides fit inside the stock bucket? I was thinking of match the sides against each other and using a strip of plate to extend inside for the bolt attachments. (I already have one hole for the bolt on toothbar and was going to add another on top) Also I was planning on extending by 12 inches as I was concerned about total lifting capacity being exceeded. Can you fill the bucket with snow/mulch and still lift with no problem?

frank_f15 · Feb 6, 2003

THAT MUST BE IT. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif just last week i had to fire up the beast to knock down the piles at end of drive so we could see when we were pulling out, then of course it got warm and rined and the piles would have gone down by mother nature. <font color="red"> </font> but what the heck seat time is seat time <font color="red"> </font>

skent · Feb 7, 2003

I added 18" and even with wet heavy snow there's no problem lifting. I have my extension overlapping inside the existing bucket sides. To test the bucket, I placed 10 bags of sand, (50 lbs each) and it worked fine. I think it would be impossible to load over that weight with snow, no matter how 'wet'.

SteveV · Feb 8, 2003

We just got another foot of the light fluffy Buffalo snow on Friday. It made some really neat icicles on people's houses around here. Here in NE, we can't count that as real snow and life just goes on. Maybe next storm we'll get some of that sopping wet slop again! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif Now I need a little picture of a flame here. SteveV