Toe tip bucket for a Jcb 531-70?

[Agriimark]

After some advice/views on having a toe tip bucket on a loadall over a standard bucket. Personally only seen and used toe tips on shovels but an option to have one for our loadall has come up. Will there be any advantage if any on a loadall, also and disadvantages. Thanks.

 

[quattro]

I’d a 531 c/w a 2.5 ton (osr) std bucket never needed boom out unless a 75 cube bulker
We wasn’t limited for height I preferred the bigger lighter bucket was loading 8000 ton a year
Now use a 4ton std bucket on a 6 ton machine boom in all the time 10,000+tons a year
Handy for dropping bucket off and putting brush on between lorry’s no pipes
Individual choice really

 

[Shovelhands]

I run a toe tip on our Loadall, personally I wouldn’t be without it. I cannot load the spreader with a standard GP bucket unless boomed our circa 1.5m , never have to boom out with the toe tip, and always get the load in the middle.
Cycle times are greatly increased.

 

[A1an]

Toe tip is the way forward if you have to boom out at all with a standard bucket. I wouldn't be without mine now.

When loading walking floor trailers I can half loading time by using a toe tip. By the time I boom all the way out, tip, then boom all the way back in I could've collected and tipped another bucket with toe tip. It also tips fast than the standard bucket .

 

[Tramliner]

I’d a 531 c/w a 2.5 ton (osr) std bucket never needed boom out unless a 75 cube bulker
We wasn’t limited for height I preferred the bigger lighter bucket was loading 8000 ton a year
Now use a 4ton std bucket on a 6 ton machine boom in all the time 10,000+tons a year
Handy for dropping bucket off and putting brush on between lorry’s no pipes
Individual choice really

We have just had a 560-80 and are trying different grain buckets,at present we have a 5 cube J C B bucket which is 2.7 m wide , 1.85 m deep and 1.5 m high, I think it is too deep for the crowd ram to handle,we have been thinking about having wider one made say 3.5 m and shorten the depth,width would not be an issue has it wouldn't go off site,if it did you could drop it on trailer.
We have got a smaller toe tip that we use for filling concrete shuttered walls and have used that for grain and they are brilliant to use,but for a bigger machine they are heavy and like you say the pipes are pain!
It took 8 buckets this morning to fill 29 ton of barley and it handles the 5 cube well but you have to be crowding back has you go into the pile,the new gear box is brilliant when you get used to it.

 

[Agriimark]

I run a toe tip on our Loadall, personally I wouldn’t be without it. I cannot load the spreader with a standard GP bucket unless boomed our circa 1.5m , never have to boom out with the toe tip, and always get the load in the middle.
Cycle times are greatly increased.

That is our trouble with our bunning it stands so tall we have to boom out a fair way. So time wise a toe tip seems the best option imo

 

[quattro]

We have just had a 560-80 and are trying different grain buckets,at present we have a 5 cube J C B bucket which is 2.7 m wide , 1.85 m deep and 1.5 m high, I think it is too deep for the crowd ram to handle,we have been thinking about having wider one made say 3.5 m and shorten the depth,width would not be an issue has it wouldn't go off site,if it did you could drop it on trailer.
We have got a smaller toe tip that we use for filling concrete shuttered walls and have used that for grain and they are brilliant to use,but for a bigger machine they are heavy and like you say the pipes are pain!
It took 8 buckets this morning to fill 29 ton of barley and it handles the 5 cube well but you have to be crowding back has you go into the pile,the new gear box is brilliant when you get used to it.

Mines 6,25cube as we mostly load osr bucket is 3metres wide to try keep it shallower (front to back) it’s a heavy bucket but very strong it’s a fine line between weight and strength most weight I’ve had in it is 4,25 barley that’s its limit
I can load a lorry sat next to me in the shed in 4mins and not flying about that’s with boom fully in

 

[A1an]

That is our trouble with our bunning it stands so tall we have to boom out a fair way. So time wise a toe tip seems the best option imo

It's a no brainer

 

[Morph]

Old kramer 312 with 6 ft toe tip will out perform 32.6 merlo with7'6 standard bucket. toe tip on merlo no booming up or out to get the bucket high enough to clear trailer sides when tipping.

 

[A1an]

The problem I have is when I am loading a walking floor trailer (4.8m high) with the standard bucket, the bucket is so deep (2m front to back) that by the time it is fully tipped it has robbed 2m off the reach of the boom.

I'm currently looking for a bucket that will pretty much max out the loader when full. At the moment I have a 3cuM BAC bucket but it only holds 800kg of chip, the bucket weighs 1.2t so I've still got plenty spare capacity.

 

[A1an]

The problem I have is when I am loading a walking floor trailer (4.8m high) with the standard bucket, the bucket is so deep (2m front to back) that by the time it is fully tipped it has robbed 2m off the reach of the boom.

I'm currently looking for a bucket that will pretty much max out the loader when full. At the moment I have a 3cuM BAC bucket but it only holds 800kg of chip, the bucket weighs 1.2t so I've still got plenty spare capacity.

 

[jonnyjon]

We have just had a 560-80 and are trying different grain buckets,at present we have a 5 cube J C B bucket which is 2.7 m wide , 1.85 m deep and 1.5 m high, I think it is too deep for the crowd ram to handle,we have been thinking about having wider one made say 3.5 m and shorten the depth,width would not be an issue has it wouldn't go off site,if it did you could drop it on trailer.
We have got a smaller toe tip that we use for filling concrete shuttered walls and have used that for grain and they are brilliant to use,but for a bigger machine they are heavy and like you say the pipes are pain!
It took 8 buckets this morning to fill 29 ton of barley and it handles the 5 cube well but you have to be crowding back has you go into the pile,the new gear box is brilliant when you get used to it.

Go wider and shorter imo, Jcb have useless crowd power, makes scraping along walls much easier too

 

[ACEngineering]

Albutt are doing a clam shell type bucket, kind of a giant 3 in 1 digger bucket idea. looks good.

 

[shumungus]

Wouldn't be without a toe-tip on bulk work.
Have a look at these.

 

[shumungus]

Specs.
http://biddyattachments.com/products/agri-high-tip-buckets/
http://biddyattachments.com/products/wheeled-loader-high-tip-buckets/

 

[Nearly]

@Dave W

 

[Dave W]

@Dave W

Think the grain would fall out of mine a bit. Better on beet or riddling stone. Heck of a tool though

 

[TripleSix]

The problem I have is when I am loading a walking floor trailer (4.8m high) with the standard bucket, the bucket is so deep (2m front to back) that by the time it is fully tipped it has robbed 2m off the reach of the boom.

I'm currently looking for a bucket that will pretty much max out the loader when full. At the moment I have a 3cuM BAC bucket but it only holds 800kg of chip, the bucket weighs 1.2t so I've still got plenty spare capacity.

I would shy away from loading the machine to max capacity.
In my opinion it starts to get unstable when you're loading wagons and slows you down.

You can't brake normally when approaching the wagon etc

 

[stablegirl]

What are toe tips like for metering things out like ingredients into a mixer wagon?

 

[ollie989898]

If you have ever used a toe tip you will know how ace they are. Only way you could improve on them is with that 4 in one clam shell type as you just lift the rear edge over the wagon to empty it.