Tough little dirtbucket with teeth!

[MarkV]

I am going to throw in my 2 cents about the teeth. I use a Bob Cat bucket on my tractor and the teeth bolt onto the front cutting edge yet remain flush with the cutting edge and do not extend below it. Besides back dragging, as has been mentioned, this setup allows me in a forward motion to work dirt almost as a plane would on wood removing only the high spots. Once you get the hang of angling the bucket you can get very smooth results. Also with these teeth two bolts remove each one if you every have a need for the bucket without teeth. May be worth taking a look at a Bob Cat bucket and see what you think.

Great job of fabrication.

MarkV

 

[Bill Barrett]

Very nice, I have a 580 Case bucket to rebuild interested?

 

[jimgerken]

Here's the painted version.

 

[jimgerken]

closeup...

 

[mike69440]

Too Bad I did not suggest this before you painted it.

Add a 2x2 x 0.38" L to the rear as a back-dragging scraper.

This works real nice and saves back of bucket.

you can add this once paint wears off and it will give you reason to repaint it that preety green.

 

[mobilus]

Mike69440, do you have a picture of your bucket setup?

 

[Kendrick]

thats a beauty. I would love to hear how it has worked since the snow melted.

 

[mjncad]

Excellent job of fabrication...I want more tools to build toys!

 

[jimgerken]

Hey Kendrick, the little bucket is just the ticket for general purpose work. I will certainly use the 61 inch stock bucket when winter comes, but for summer it is so nice having the small stout bucket on there. The tractor is more manuverable in tight places, the bucket can be loaded to way overflowing without straining the loader frame at all, and the digging teeth and small width certainly aid in digging into the ground although it is still not a backhoe of course. Since putting the small bucket on two months ago, I have not had it off. Have dug plants out of the ground with it, loaded and hauled large rocks, spread 25 yards of soil, hauled the post hole digger augers to Dad's for the day, cleaned out the firepit ashes, dug a big darn rock out of my lawn that had been poking up to catch my mower, used the chain hook to pick up the cement mixer and carry it around the yard, moved a bunch of sod from one part of the yard to the other, and hauled a bunch of sand into one of the kennels.
I do wish I had done what mike69440 suggested, that is put a cutting edge on the back bottom edge/corner of the bucket for smoothing. I may add it sooner or later, as the paint is worn off the bottom anyway.

 

[mjncad]

I contacted a local JD dealer about an ATI tooth-bar for my JD 420 loader with the 60" bucket and he didn't recommend that I put a tooth-bar of any kind on the bucket as it will add potentially harmful stress to the loader frame.

We have Claycrete (bentonite) and I think a tooth-bar would help penetrate that junk easier for digging.

Any thoughts on this?