Skid Loader-Mounted "Gutter Cleaner" Bucket

Skid Loader-Mounted Gutter Cleaner Bucket MANURE HANDLING Miscellaneous Robert Adelmeyer Adelmeyer Welding Lomira Wis recently sent photos of a skid loader-mounted “gutter cleaner” bucket he built for a local customer to clean the gutters in his dairy barn “The customer got out of farming for a while When he started back up again the barn cleaner chain in his dairy barn had to be junked out Rather than buy a new chain he asked me to build something that he could use with his skid loader to do the job ” says Adelmeyer The 5-ft wide bucket is made from 1/4-in thick steel and is designed with an 18-in wide “chute” on one side that extends 1 ft down below the bottom of the bucket The operator drives alongside the gutter with the chute lowered down into the gutter As he drives forward the manure slides into the chute piles up and eventually spills sideways through an opening into the main part of the bucket Once the bucket is full the operator dumps the manure into a manure spreader A pair of front-end tractor weights on the opposite side of the bucket help counterbalance the weight of the gutter scoop Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Robert Adelmeyer Box 201 1025 North Water St Lomira Wis 53048 ph 920 269-4357 or cell 920 948-0263

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