Bucket-Mounted Boom Pole

Bucket-Mounted Boom Pole MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous Terry Benoit Orange Texas converted a 3-pt mounted boom pole he already had to a loader bucket-mounted unit He uses it on his Kubota L235 tractor “It works great for a variety of jobs ” says Benoit “I built it to lift and push invasive dead trees away from a fence in our pasture but it’ll lift just about anything We’ve even used it to place trusses when we were building a barn With the bucket raised all the way it can reach about 20 ft which is much more than it could on the 3-pt The visibility and control is also much better ” If Benoit wants he can replace the U-shaped bracket with a 4-ft blade which he uses to reach out and cut grass and weeds along the edge of his pond “The blade is just a piece of flat bar sharpened on one edge ” he says “I reach the boom out into the pond as far as I can and let the boom down then back up It does a nice job of clearing weeds and debris away ” The 12-ft long boom attaches to the bucket with 3 pins Benoit welded a small metal bracket on top of the bucket to support a short pipe that pins onto the boom’s 3-pt top link mounting bracket He also drilled two holes in the bottom of the bucket which match holes drilled into brackets welded to the boom’s lift arm mounting points He uses the U-shaped bracket on front of the boom to move dead trees He welded a pair of 6-in channel irons about 1 ft apart onto one side of a rectangular steel plate and also welded a metal arm on the other side that pins onto the boom Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Terry Benoit 1077 Bobcat Circle Orange Texas 77632 ph 409 332-9124; terry benoit@gerdau com

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