Been thinking of buying or building an oversized snow/mulch style bucket for my Kioti NX4510. The standard material bucket I have is 72” and about 1/2 cubic yard. I’m thinking an oversized bucket around 1 cubic yard, maybe even a touch more would be pretty handy for firewood, snow, mulch, brush, leaves, and other lighter materials. Anyone have one? The tractor has no issues with full 330 gallon IBC cages of wood or my wooden fork box that is 6’ wide x 30” high x 40” deep.
What is the purpose of that strip under the front edge? On the pic on the right, it is orange color. Something to fail? Maybe if you're digging dirt but if it's lightweight material, might not matter so much. Wondering about your box you made, sounds interesting, post a pic if you have it. That should hold a hefty amount of cubic feet of firewood. Is it secured to the forks?
Most of the large capacity buckets I’ve seen have reversible cutting edges. Keep in mind, a lot of commercial snow guys and mulch guys use these buckets, and they’re constantly digging into piles on blacktop or other hard surfaces. The box I made has fork slots and gets secured to the fork frame with steel chains. I can dump it, and even made a front dump truck style tailgate for it that hinges at the top. It also has tool holders on the sides. Pipes for can’t hooks, and pickeroons. Wood cleats for saws, axes, and log tongs. It holds 1/3rd cord or 43 cubic feet.
I have no experience with this particular bucket, but having dealt with similar ones my guess is that it's a strip of high-density plastic or something similar to keep from tearing up asphalt, concrete, and turf when working with snow. These oversized buckets are generally intended for moving bulky material (snow, mulch, pine straw, etc.) more so than digging, so they're often used in more "civilized" settings, as Sirbuildalot already mentioned.
You are quite the carpenter/fabricator, great work all around! On your house there is a red star, does that have meaning? Looks like a Lone Star of Texas. One thing about it, would be easy to direct someone to your home! Also, your house has two chimneys, one smaller. What's the scoop on having two? Sorry, I'm from the deep south.
My wife just wanted a star. lol. The smaller chimney is for my Woodstove. In Massachusetts you can’t have the oil burner and wood stove in the same flue
I picked up a large CASE bucket a while back for snow, but it works for firewood too. It looks out of place on my 610 bobcat, but I don’t care. It takes more effort to push under the pile than my smaller bucket, but it holds a LOT more. We can stack a face cord in it, so it saves a lot of time when moving wood from the splitter pile.
A friend of mine retired from CASE and he acquired a bucket from something big. It's used as yard art and I could park my tractor in it.
I purchase most of my attachments from Jenkins Iron and Steel. Check out their Snow and Materials Bucket. They are high capacity units and up to 12 feet wide. It's a great company to work with.
