Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Oldpath05]

If you have moved 50 yds of gravel ( that's quite a bit a bucket at a time ) then getting an excavator in there was a good thing to do. Moved the big rocks plus gave you tractor access to all that material.

gg

I was told my bucket holds 1/3rd of yard, so three trips = 1 yd, my math says thats 50yds and is 150 trips back&forth, so therefore if I travel 300 ft one way, so the total distance I traveled is I dont know. I do know that 50 yds at $14.00/yd is more then I can afford until I do $2,000.00 of damage on my front end, it's like a gambling, will I loose or win.....

 

[Oldpath05]

Prep work is always the hardest!!

Especially when one doesn't have the right size tractor, a 6x6 bridge requires M series tractor or excavator.

 

[Oldpath05]

I wish I had gravel too, it's all rock and clay, we are close to Hudson River, so when that glacier/iceberg carved its way down, this is where it deposited all the junk it dug up. At least that's what some experts say happened. I wasn't there and there's no pictures so I don't know.

Clay is the worst, least I dont have that.

 

[hunt4570]

I wish I had gravel too, it's all rock and clay, we are close to Hudson River, so when that glacier/iceberg carved its way down, this is where it deposited all the junk it dug up. At least that's what some experts say happened. I wasn't there and there's no pictures so I don't know.

I had no idea when we moved to SC we were moving to the beach! All there is here is dirty sand, its almost like beach sand! When they dug the hole for my world famous pool, even 6 feet down it was nothing but sand! Easy to dig but nothing wants to grow and erosion is a problem. I hear this was once all under water and I believe it, heck I find sea shells out in the woods sometimes!

 

[hunt4570]

I was told my bucket holds 1/3rd of yard, so three trips = 1 yd, my math says thats 50yds and is 150 trips back&forth, so therefore if I travel 300 ft one way, so the total distance I traveled is I dont know. I do know that 50 yds at $14.00/yd is more then I can afford until I do $2,000.00 of damage on my front end, it's like a gambling, will I loose or win.....

That's about 8.522 miles total

Who told you your bucket was 1/3 of a yard? I'd love to know how much mine holds, standard 6' Kubota bucket.

 

[Jstpssng]

That's about 8.522 miles total

Who told you your bucket was 1/3 of a yard? I'd love to know how much mine holds, standard 6' Kubota bucket.

That would be me. I believe that's what it said in the specs when I was tractor shopping, and his is very similar to mine.
You can get a quick estimate though, just fill it the way that you normally do and take a few measurements to get the approximate cubic feet. Get the depth (cutting edge to back of bucket, height, and convert to feet. Then get a couple estimates of how full it is.

 

[Oldpath05]

That's about 8.522 miles total

Who told you your bucket was 1/3 of a yard? I'd love to know how much mine holds, standard 6' Kubota bucket.

Over 8 miles!!!!!!!!! is that right, how did that add up so much? Yor tractor has 6' bucket? I thought since yours was just one size above mine it was same as mine at 5'. Jstpssng I think was the one who mention 1/3 yd, his is the same size as my L3400.

 

[Jstpssng]

Check the specs in the manual for your loader, not your tractor. Mine states that my 66" bucket holds 8.1 "struck" cubic feet, or 9.9 mounded.

 

[Gordon Gould]

You found that while I was practicing my penmanship. Kubota 5' buckets in my manual. Raining - a good day to play. Should be straightening out garage.



gg

 

[Jstpssng]

I wish I had gravel too, it's all rock and clay, we are close to Hudson River, so when that glacier/iceberg carved its way down, this is where it deposited all the junk it dug up. At least that's what some experts say happened. I wasn't there and there's no pictures so I don't know.

OldPath is pretty good about gleaning things off YouTube and it's a rainy day... perhaps he will dig up a couple of videos from back then.