5030
Epic Contributor
- Joined
- Feb 21, 2003
- Messages
- 24,646
- Location
- SE Michigan in the middle of nowhere
- Tractor
- Kubota M9000 HDCC3 M9000 HDC
Glad none of you live close to me. I already have enough front end loader buckets with 'smiles' in the to fix as it is. A smile is almost impossible to get out without cutting the side sheets loose from the floor sheet. Most of them were caused by people using clamp on or slip on pallet forks and exceeding what their buckets could bear without deforming the floor sheet and every one I've repaired was a light duty material bucket with a single floor sheet.
Dealers offer HD excavation buckets as a build accessory but most all units come with a light gauge material only bucket from the factory. Easy to tell the difference by looking at the floor sheet and the back side. Material buckets usually have a brake formed top whereas an excavation bucket will have a round pipe welded to the side sheets.
Dealers offer HD excavation buckets as a build accessory but most all units come with a light gauge material only bucket from the factory. Easy to tell the difference by looking at the floor sheet and the back side. Material buckets usually have a brake formed top whereas an excavation bucket will have a round pipe welded to the side sheets.