Bucket Capacity?

Brokermike · Jun 5, 2009

I have a DK 40 Se with the standard 72" bucket and a toothbar. The toothbar lets you really heap the bucket but I was wondering if anyone had a rough idea how much the bucket holds both with and without a toothbar in relation to yards of material (1/4, 1/3, or 1/2, etc). I really have no sense of these things but after having "3 yards" of mulch delivered, either I got shorted or I have way underestimated what a yard actually is.

Thoughts?

LD1 · Jun 5, 2009

A standard 8' pickup bed filled level full in right at 3 cu yds just to give you an idea. With a toothbar you can really heap the mulch on. I would say you could probabally get 3/4 of a yard on a 6ft bucket easy enough.

How Many bucket scoops did you get.

LD1 · Jun 5, 2009

Something else you could do if you have a 5 gal bucket. Scoop a load of mulch and see how many times you can fill the 5 gal bucket. Their are about 40 buckets to a yard.

carpenter383 · Jun 5, 2009

I got two yards of mulch in my truck (full size 8ft. bed) a month or so ago, and it was pretty full. A third would probably have been spilling over the sides, and a few ft above the bedsides.

LD1 · Jun 5, 2009

carpenter383 said:
I got two yards of mulch in my truck (full size 8ft. bed) a month or so ago, and it was pretty full. A third would probably have been spilling over the sides, and a few ft above the bedsides.

You probabally got a little more than 2 yards then.

A typical P/U 8 foot bed, 5 1/2 ft width, 21" deep.
= 77 cu ft which is about 2.85 yards. Not quite 3, but close.

When I posted earlier I was using 6ft for the width, but your post prompted me to take a measurement. So I stand slightly corrected, but still very close to 3.

BTW a short bed with 6.5 box 5.5 width and 21" deep will hold 2.3 yards.

carpenter383 · Jun 5, 2009

LD1 said:
You probabally got a little more than 2 yards then.

A typical P/U 8 foot bed, 5 1/2 ft width, 21" deep.
= 77 cu ft which is about 2.85 yards. Not quite 3, but close.

When I posted earlier I was using 6ft for the width, but your post prompted me to take a measurement. So I stand slightly corrected, but still very close to 3.

BTW a short bed with 6.5 box 5.5 width and 21" deep will hold 2.3 yards.

Gotcha, I guess I got a good deal then. They don't measure very precisely when you get a load of mulch. They just gave me two scoops with a 1 yard bucket on a skid steer.

Gittyup · Jun 5, 2009

Pretty easy to calculate. Take the dimensions of your bucket in inches. Multiply the 3 dimensions together and then divide by 46656 (cu. inches in a yard). Now image the toothbar just extends the bucket out into a rectangle and repeat the calculation for those dimensions.

LD1 · Jun 5, 2009

Gittyup said:
Pretty easy to calculate. Take the dimensions of your bucket in inches. Multiply the 3 dimensions together and then divide by 46656 (cu. inches in a yard). Now image the toothbar just extends the bucket out into a rectangle and repeat the calculation for those dimensions.

That is actually easier said than done. There are quite a few more than 3 dimensions to take into acount due to the bucket not being a perfect rectangle. Most buckets have various contour angles or they are rounded. Not to mention the average scoop of mulch is a heaped load.

Gittyup · Jun 5, 2009

LD1 said:
That is actually easier said than done. There are quite a few more than 3 dimensions to take into acount due to the bucket not being a perfect rectangle. Most buckets have various contour angles or they are rounded. Not to mention the average scoop of mulch is a heaped load.

Seems pretty easy to me.... unless you need to know to +/- a few cubic inches. The amount that the bucket is short of a rectangle is pretty much compensated for by heaping.... on average anyway. How accurate does one need to be given that it's going to vary from bucket full to bucket full?

SPYDERLK · Jun 8, 2009

How many gallons of water will it hold?.....
larry

Brokermike · Jun 8, 2009

Ummmmm............. Rick somebody.... I figured this was an easy question. Such as "Oh they come standard with a 1/2 yd bucket"

Any dealers car to opine?

Gittyup · Jun 9, 2009

If you really need to be precise. Your bucket can be devided into two volumes: a triangular volume and rectanglar one. The volume of the triangle will be B x H x L/2. The volume of the remaining rectangle will be H x D x L. The add them together.

Post the dimensions of your bucket (with and without the toothbar) and I'll do it for you. I couldn't find them on Kioti's website.

LD1 · Jun 9, 2009

I too would like to see some measurements of the bucket and we can figure out ho many cu ft it'll hold.

Just for refrence I looked at my loader book and my 60" bucket capacity is 8.1 cu ft struck and 9.9 cu ft heaped.

So at about 2 cu ft per foot of bucket I'd guess your's at about 12 w/o the tooth bar. With the tooth bar I'd say you can easially scoop 1/2 yd which is 13.5 cu ft.

Steve_Miller · Jun 9, 2009

Don't forget that by time you got home your 3 yard load of heaping mulch had probably settled down to 2 yards from the vibration of the truck on the road. Until you shoveled it off the truck and fluffed it back up to 3 yards again.

Steve

Erik_in_Hoyt · Jun 9, 2009

I'm actually kind of surprised Kioti doesn't list bucket volumes on their site.
I'm going to guess it holds about 1/2 yard flat loaded, more heaped.
this is based on my 9 Cu Ft "easy dump" (tapered side) 72" bucket and my 14 Cu Ft "straight sided" 72" bucket.

rd_macgregor · Jun 10, 2009

For what its worth...I have a six cubit foot capacity wheelbarrow. With only a modicum of spillage, I can empty three wheelbarrow loads of manure into my 72inch Kioti bucket. This is pretty imprecise, but from it I'd say the one-half (plus) yard volume is a fair estimate for a six-footer without a toothbar.
BOB

novi408 · Jun 10, 2009

It is listed if you click on the "Brochure" button for most models, but not for the DK40SE.

Erik_in_Hoyt said:
I'm actually kind of surprised Kioti doesn't list bucket volumes on their site.
I'm going to guess it holds about 1/2 yard flat loaded, more heaped.
this is based on my 9 Cu Ft "easy dump" (tapered side) 72" bucket and my 14 Cu Ft "straight sided" 72" bucket.

LD1 · Jun 10, 2009

I still think it is a 12 cu ft bucket.

They do list the volume for the 66" bucket on the kl351 @ .31 cu meters, which is about 11 cu ft.
11/5.5= about 2 cu ft per ft of bucket
2 x 6 = 12 cu ft

That is if it is about the same depth as the kl351, which it probabally is, it is just a little wider

LD1 · Jun 10, 2009

Since this was driving me nuts and I had nothing better to do...I called a kioti dealer.

He confirmed that the kl351 66" bucket is identical to the kl401 72" bucket it is just 6" wider. So that would make your bucket a 12 cu ft on the money.