72" bent bucket edge (need advice)

[Honey Badger]

okay update after a little over 2 months. Sorry about that, but life gets in the way sometimes. Thank you everyone for the advice. Heated the bucket edge and used a big hammer to get it back straight and installed a tooth bar. Love it, here's is a couple picks of after and before! A little dirty

 

[two_bit_score]

Looks good! Glad you got it worked out!

 

[Henro]

And...next you can deal with a bend in the side of your bucket!

Not sure how this happened, but after heating and straightening, I welded 3/8 inch flat bar on both sides for added strength.

Sorry about the photo rotation if not right. Not sure how to fix it.

 

[Honey Badger]

And...next you can deal with a bend in the side of your bucket!

Not sure how this happened, but after heating and straightening, I welded 3/8 inch flat bar on both sides for added strength.

Sorry about the photo rotation if not right. Not sure how to fix it.


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Henro, wow sorry about the bend in your loader bucket.
If you look at each side of my bucket it comes with factory flat bar pieces on each side that make it much stronger I think. I have torqued my bucket pulling roots and rocks and it still right! This Kioti DK45SE is a beast so far!
Have installed pipe on trail digging into heavy wet clay soil and bullied it's way so far. Hope it keeps doing it!
Good luck, you can bend it back but heat can weaken it .