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[bigpete]

Delivered this morning. Now with 2.1 hours.

I was very pleased with the quality of welding and design on the 5/16" bucket grab hooks and reinforcement. I dropped off a six-pack to the shop tech on my way out earlier tonight.

Managed to keep my 54" front plow moldboard and haggled for a hydraulic angling kit. Now I'm set with both a loader and front blade. Also ended up with two sets of tires, turfs and bars, as I mentioned in another thread. Added the stock rear halogen worklight for $35 with harness internal to the ROPs and switching integrated with on-board lights. Added mulching kit for the deck, and a 48" United box blade.

The quick-park loader design is pretty slick and I managed to get in some practice dropping it off and putting it back on a few times. Once I commit the sequence to memory, It should only take a couple of minutes. Here's a pic and a few more to follow.

 

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Grab hook placement

 

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Orientation of support plates welded inside bucket to grab hooks

 

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Hook detail

 

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Hook reinforcement detail

 

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Rear worklight

 

[thcri]

Big Pete,

You got yourself a nice looking rig there. I have be thinking about chain hooks on my bucket also. I like the way you beefed them up. I was just going to weld a hook to a plate and then bolt it one but I think yours is a much stronger way to do it.

Take care of the rig
Murph

 

[bigpete]

Full credit to the shop tech. My father is an engineer and I think it skips a generation. I know what I like when I see it, but would have never done that out of instinct. It's the kind of weld and support that adds rigidity to the upper lip even without the hooks. If I would have known he was going to do that, I would have had him drop a third reinforcement right in the middle of the bucket for good measure, general strength, and integrity.

 

[hazmat]

Lookin' good pete, we want pics of you cleaning up after this storm.

 

[bigpete]

Hey, Hazmat.

It was dark when I finished up yesterday, and pouring rain on top of 20" of snow this morning. Not likely to get any pictures. I'll just be inside lamenting the trans fluid leak on my brand new baby... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif There's no drip with all of the pressure off. Looks like it's coming from the area around the toplink plate, the bottom of the gasket, perhaps. The dealer said to keep the fluids up and I could still use it but its heading back to the shop when the roads are clear.