Having a problem with something that is totally unrelated to the failure negating the warranty really sucks.
I reinforced the top of my bucket with a piece of heavy channel iron and welded the hooks on. Or my Brother did. I'm a lousy welder. I use the bucket for a lot of things including lifting deer and hogs to be skinned and butchered. It also makes me feel better when I load it onto a trailer. I can chain it down so it makes it to wherever I'm going.
One thing that I've seen but don't have is a home made gizmo that locks into the FEL with a couple of flat pieces of channel extending outward. You can slide a wooden pallet onto the channels and have a stable platform to stand on. Currently, when I want to trim trees or fill deer feeders, I stand in the loader and get lifted up to do whatever. It's not really all that good of a perch but, so far, I haven't fallen out or off. I need to get a set of these made. Sooner or later, I'm going to fall out of that loader. I wish I had a picture of that thing.
Last edited by Dave Davidson1; 05/23/12 04:26 AM.
