Adding grab hooks on front bucket, 2 or 3 hooks?

[RoyJackson]

Pros or cons to adding the bolt on hooks?

Just use Grade 8 bolts...

 

[GeneV]

Pros or cons to adding the bolt on hooks?

Pro: the backer plate could be a clevis mount, so you got hooks on top, clevises on the underside of the top of the bucket.
Con: nothing.

 

[jcman]

I did three on mine, as well. Two on ends are used with a 10' loop of 5/16" choker chain for lifting whole logs, or when my approach to something that needs to come from one side or the other. The one in the middle is used for pretty much everything else.

You could run a slack chain between the two side hooks, if you were lacking a middle hook, but it multiplies the side force on the side hooks, by the angle of your dangle.

Don't laugh at my welds, these were done blind with flux core, before I had my MIG set up with proper gas.

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When I first started welding I told my uncle that I couldn't draw a very good bead and he said, "That's what they make angle grinder for." I'm a lot better now but still need the angle grinder on some of them.

 

[jcman]

My Kubota B8200 had a hole and thick steel post with a threaded hole on each side of the top edge I found a grade 8 metric bolt the right length and put a hook on each side. This was a few years after I welded some 1/2 X 2 steel to the top edge of the bucket and welded a single hook in the center. I use the center one the most but am glad I have the two on the ends, too.

 

[Kschwennsen]

get forks. They don't have hooks the bucket because the bucket isn't designed for loading on that area.

 

[WranglerX]

Pros or cons to adding the bolt on hooks?

Probbly not many as with either welded or bolted the stress you put on hooks is up to you and how much damage you willing to cause to bucket....

 

[RoyJackson]

get forks. They don't have hooks the bucket because the bucket isn't designed for loading on that area.

Hooks aren't limited to something in the bucket...they're handy for lifting items, no matter the shape. Last time I used the hooks was to pull split rail fence posts out of the ground (2½-3 feet in the ground)

Forks are great for pallets and such, but not limited to pallets if one uses their brain...and buckets are not limited to carrying materials

 

[scootr]

Last time I used my bucket hooks I was carefully transporting 24' x 6 ft welded wire corral panels. Sometimes you just need to keep something relatively light in or on the bucket.

 

[Bentrim]

It has been mentioned before but I don't like hooks in the middle, it seems it would be the ideal place for one, but it is the weakest part of the bucket. If you chose to put one in the center be sure you to but reinforcement on top or under the lip of the bucket. I have seen many loader with hooks in the center and the bucket lip is bent down, even heavy duty loader buckets.

 

[DK35vince]

It has been mentioned before but I don't like hooks in the middle, it seems it would be the ideal place for one, but it is the weakest part of the bucket. If you chose to put one in the center be sure you to but reinforcement on top or under the lip of the bucket. I have seen many loader with hooks in the center and the bucket lip is bent down, even heavy duty loader buckets.

I have 3 grab hooks on my bucket.
1 on each end of the bucket and 1 in the center.
The center hook is by far the handiest, most used hook and I use it often