Skidsteer Scraper

[biggles]

Have a 3 foot bobcat for mucking out the small sheds and have been thinking for a while it would be handy for getting into some of the areas we struggle with using the tractor. has anybody had a scraper on a small skidsteer? how big can you go and how effective are they? would need to be one that can push and pull slurry and follow concrete gradients, cheers

 

[biggles]

Don’t all shout at once ?

 

[Bald Rick]

Have a 3 foot bobcat for mucking out the small sheds and have been thinking for a while it would be handy for getting into some of the areas we struggle with using the tractor. has anybody had a scraper on a small skidsteer? how big can you go and how effective are they? would need to be one that can push and pull slurry and follow concrete gradients, cheers

We use a variety of scrapers on a JCB 190 from this Mensch 5’4” tyre scraper to a 6’6” box scraper.
You will be limited by the width of your narrowest passage/doorway rather than the power of a machine like the skid below

 

[ILovebaling]

Can't see why you couldn't get one and just fit skid steer brackets on. Obviously it would just have to be a size and weight it could handle

 

[biggles]

Cheers, size of access door isn’t an issue, it’s more just a problem of multiple shunts with tractor and using indépendant brakes that I don’t like, my concern was would a 3ft bobcat be man enough for the task?, the tractor size ones look big and heavy at the side of my bobcat, is there anyone who makes ones specially sized for small skids? Has anyone got a scraper on such a small machine? Cheers

 

[Bald Rick]

Cheers, size of access door isn’t an issue, it’s more just a problem of multiple shunts with tractor and using indépendant brakes that I don’t like, my concern was would a 3ft bobcat be man enough for the task?, the tractor size ones look big and heavy at the side of my bobcat, is there anyone who makes ones specially sized for small skids? Has anyone got a scraper on such a small machine? Cheers

Not going to be an issue. Just go for a cheap and cheerful scraper like this (with skid adapter plates obvs)

 

[tomg]

We used to have a bobcat S70 I think it was. Used it for a few years on a 5ft scraper and it coped ok, we were pulling out quite strawy stuff rather than just sloppy slurry. It was fine in straight lines but the problems came when you had to go around corners, having to slow the drive down on one side meant it struggled pulling a scraper around corners particularly if the concrete was slippy. What you had just pulled/pushed fine in a straight line you then would sometime have to halve the amount to get around the corner. We've since swapped to a little kubota pivot steer on the scraper and it is a far superior machine and pulls fine around the corners.

 

[biggles]

Thanks lads that’s all reassuring, I’m not going to be gready with it, just little and often, Glad it looks like a starter as it will make life a lot easier, cheers