Large Bucket Container.

[stray]

The weight of accumulated snow/ice moisture content varies a lot. Water content of snow may range from 3% for a very dry snow to 20% for compacted snow to nearly 100% for ice. Water weighs 62.4 pounds per cubit foot.
One way to see how dense your snow is to fill a coffee can (Just thrust it into the snow but don’t compact it). Then let it melt. You will then have to do the math. If you have 6 inches of snow and it becomes 1 inch of water. Then you snow will weight per volume 1/6 the weight of water 1/6 X 62.4 = 10.4 lbs. per cu ft
or 62.4 / 6 = 10.4 lbs. per cu ft again you need to do your own sampling to be anywhere near accurate.

 

[RegL]

You really don't have to search the web. The lihgt material bucket for the PT 1430 is 18 cu. ft. or .66 cu.yards. PT might even put the correct attachment plate on for no extra charge. I don't think weight would be a problem most of the time and when working in real dense snow or ice, you could just take smaller bites. One thing to keep in mind is that the bucket is deep, back to front, so with the smaller PT's, you will probably have to use max height on loader to dump the load and won't be able to stack snow very high.

By the way, the 1430 and big bucket is my main snow removal tool now. works so good I didn't bother buying the plow.

 

[stray]

Thanks Regl. A very good thought. I just sent power-trac an email asking them to give me the weights of the larger buckets (18 24 and 30 cu ft ones). I can get the prices but I couldn’t find where they listed the weights.

 

[Schultz]

We only got wet snow at the beginning and end of the seasons. After that, it was only powder. If you like snow, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, and ice fishing it’s a great place to live. The snow removal equipment is amazing. The main snow removal for the local mall was a pay loader with a bucket big enough to parallel park a Ford Taurus in. The main snow removal equipment for the main roads through town was a modified road grader with a 10 or 12’ belly blade, a 10-12’ fold down side blade, and a front v-plow blade. The side blade could be folded down flat for two lanes, but was mostly used at a 45° angle to guide the snow up and over the plowed drifts of 6-8’ high.

 

[bubenberg]

we made one of our two light material buckets larger by adding a frame to the back for mulching large properties. the frame is a 60 inches by 20 inches angle iron frame filled in with 1/4 inch expandable iron mesh.

the bucket holds safely about 15- 20 cubic feet of somewhat dry mulch, forget more cu fifty feet unless you are strictly going straight back and forth on pavement.

 

[Tak]

Stray,

Suggestion - attach one end of the container to the PT while the other end has wheels that are always in contact with the ground. That way the PT is only carrying approx 1/2 the total load. Or better yet, make it more like a trailer set up where the PT is only towing rather than carrying.

 

[Charlie_Iliff]

<font color="red"> make it more like a trailer set up where the PT is only towing rather than carrying.
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That's getting close to a recommendation of a power dumper. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Power Dumper

 

[bubenberg]

Charlie your long standing wish has hand and feet. John Bentley from Earth & Turf Topdressing Equipment has, after our daylong meeting about our linear aeration project, tasked Steve Fisher to create a mulch spreader. That spreader is going to be operated by a PT 425 driver (me for right now). Therefore i did not, at least not at this time, put it under attachments.
John asked me to help Steve with the development of the prototype which will be something similar to a Millcreek orchard row mulcher BUT with our addition, we discussed for two years now. This addition will make it unique on the market. Our invention (yours and mine) will have to go through various legal processes before i can release more info.

We should be able to test the spreader by February 2005 and it should be available for next years mulching season. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[stray]

Can you see the bucket in this picture?

 

[stray]

If not can you see the bucket in this one? I will have some more pics later as I work on this project. Thanks for the ideas guys.

 

[MossRoad]

Unless you beef that up, the PT's hydraulics will crush it like a pop can. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[stray]

Thanks Moss. Sure sounds like some good advice.

 

[Schultz]

Is that an old fuel oil tank? Good idea. Like Moss said, I would imagine some reinforcements will be necessary.

 

[stray]

Is this what you all had in mind?

 

[stray]

The skin is only welded around the edges. This alows the skin to creep and not pop welds loose.

 

[stray]

All braces are tied together, including the front cutting bar. This gives better structure to the lifting points.

 

[cqaigy]

Nice job Stray!!

 

[pequeajim]

Very cool, carry mulch and a portable burn can at the same time /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[Schultz]

No that's a snow/mulch/leaf bucket, I want one too! I have to hand it to you that is cooool and looks pretty intimidating.

Thanks for sharing. When I get my PT, I'll have to keep an eye out for such an item.

 

[Schultz]

Did you save the other side of the tank so you can hinge them together again? That way it can double as a portable PT pig roster when you need it. All you need is a low speed hydraulic motor for the rotisserie and you'll have an all-new PT powered attachment.

Tim Allen would be proud.


Tim