Size of cylinder for tilting the bucket on a loader?

unioncreek · Dec 27, 2008

I have a Horndraulic loader on my Farmall M, bucket is approximately 42 inches wide. I want to put a cylinder on it, since it still is setup as a trip bucket. What diameter cylinder would work a two or three inch? I'm planning on only putting one cylinder in the center of the bucket to tilt it.

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Janicholson · Dec 27, 2008

2 and one half is cool. Remember that you are making a device that lends itself to using the bucket as a scraper (dump position). it is not, and with one cylinder it will never be. Real blade combo buckets have compound steel members on both sides to assure strength when pushing/dragging in that position. My neighbor (long ago) was just leveling gravel (1066 with duall loader) and cought a crack in concrete. It tore both tilt cylinder rams out of their endcaps and ruined both in 1/10 second.
One way to actually do it is to make square section tubing and ends to place on the bucket to make it single purpose while pushing/dragging. JimN

old · Dec 27, 2008

You will be better off to use 2 instead of one. But if you do use 1 use the bigger one because you could end up not having enough lift to do the job other wise and even then with just one your more likely to bend the bucket in ways that you will not like BTDT and found 2 is better then one by far
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Size of cylinder for tilting the bucket on a loader?

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