Anyone know a good steel fabricator in Surin City area that makes excavator buckets?

Stargazer

Stargazer

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I need a 100cm wide smooth lip grading excavator bucket to fit a standard pin mount on a Kubota U17-3. Kubota doesn’t bother to offer buckets. Anyone know of a shop capable of doing such precision work that involves bending steel plate and making the mounting as should be done for a durable bucket? Or will I have to find a supplier in Bangkok?

Rhinox (UK) makes great buckets, but the shipping/duty nearly triples the price. This is what such a bucket looks like:IMG_3979.jpeg
 
Stargazer said:
I need a 100cm wide smooth lip grading excavator bucket to fit a standard pin mount on a Kubota U17-3. Kubota doesn’t bother to offer buckets. Anyone know of a shop capable of doing such precision work that involves bending steel plate and making the mounting as should be done for a durable bucket? Or will I have to find a supplier in Bangkok?

Rhinox (UK) makes great buckets, but the shipping/duty nearly triples the price. This is what such a bucket looks like:View attachment 81560
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Good luck with that :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
FERRET said:
Good luck with that :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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You would be quite surprised @FERRET In most Amphurs there is always a well accomplished mechanical engineer with a complete work shop.
They do the mechanical repairs on tractors and their accessories. I know one personally not far from me.
@Stargazer ask your wife for Chang gon pradip. ช่างกลประดิษฐ์.
Being a bush mechanic he will most likely know of some junk he can modify for you. It is worth trying.
 
Rice said:
You would be quite surprised @FERRET In most Amphurs there is always a well accomplished mechanical engineer with a complete work shop.
They do the mechanical repairs on tractors and their accessories. I know one personally not far from me.
@Stargazer ask your wife for Chang gon pradip. ช่างกลประดิษฐ์.
Being a bush mechanic he will most likely know of some junk he can modify for you. It is worth trying.
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You'd need a serious roller/ press if you are going to play with Bisaloy 400--bucket material and a Mig loaded
with 1.2 mm bucket wire.
 
FERRET said:
You'd need a serious roller/ press if you are going to play with Bisaloy 400--bucket material and a Mig loaded
with 1.2 mm bucket wire.
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Yep. That’s why they say sometimes “Don’t try this at home”:D Wish Rhinox were not 10,000 KM away in UK
 
Stargazer said:
I need a 100cm wide smooth lip grading excavator bucket to fit a standard pin mount on a Kubota U17-3. Kubota doesn’t bother to offer buckets. Anyone know of a shop capable of doing such precision work that involves bending steel plate and making the mounting as should be done for a durable bucket? Or will I have to find a supplier in Bangkok?

Rhinox (UK) makes great buckets, but the shipping/duty nearly triples the price. This is what such a bucket looks like:View attachment 81560
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Stargazer said:
I need a 100cm wide smooth lip grading excavator bucket to fit a standard pin mount on a Kubota U17-3. Kubota doesn’t bother to offer buckets. Anyone know of a shop capable of doing such precision work that involves bending steel plate and making the mounting as should be done for a durable bucket? Or will I have to find a supplier in Bangkok?

Rhinox (UK) makes great buckets, but the shipping/duty nearly triples the price. This is what such a bucket looks like:View attachment 81560
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Yes
 
Talked to these guys before... They might have a 1000mm bucket for sale...
In my opinion however a 1000mm bucket for a 1.7 ton machine is bordering danger of twisting stuff if not careful.
But if handled carefully in light work, it´s most probably fine.

My advice for this bucket purchase would be to go up a step and buy a tilting bucket.
So much more productive than a static bucket.

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Pat said:
Talked to these guys before... They might have a 1000mm bucket for sale...
In my opinion however a 1000mm bucket for a 1.7 ton machine is bordering danger of twisting stuff if not careful.
But if handled carefully in light work, it´s most probably fine.

My advice for this bucket purchase would be to go up a step and buy a tilting bucket.
So much more productive than a static bucket.

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Thanks, Pat. Good advice. Yes, twisting is an issue with a slender boom like this. Maybe one reason they don’t offer wide buckets. I have just two uses for wide bucket: loading loose material like gravel and dirt, and smoothing loose material. I’ve considered a couple of improvements like you suggest. I love having a thumb to aid in picking up light material. I also like a quick attach adapter. But after using this little guy for a while,. I see that it’s not very powerful, and every kilo of weight out there reduces the lifting ability by a kilo. So I think I’ll do without adding them.
 
FERRET said:
You'd need a serious roller/ press if you are going to play with Bisaloy 400--bucket material and a Mig loaded
with 1.2 mm bucket wire.
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Thanks to all for links to plausible companies. There is a plausible alternative that might work: find a used bucket made for a different machine, remove the ‘ears’ that mount it to a specific brand, and replace them with a pair of pre-made precision ears made for the U17-3. I’ve done this before with Takeuchi and made my own rake bucket. They sell the ears as blanks, and all it takes is a good plasma cutter to match them to the bucket profile The question is whether Kubota will sell them to me. It may be that they import the standard bucket from Japan rather than make it here. Image: loading a stump at our WA farm with TB235 with thumb
 
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Haven’t yet found one of these companies that want to do a Kubota bucket. And Kubota refuses to sell the unusual ‘ears’ used to mount the bucket (unusual because they are machined, not flat on the inside edge, to accommodate a rubber o-ring) which could be used to convert a different brand bucket. The excavator is working well, within its size/power limits. Local pros are amused to see a farang running an excavator. I think as long as I don’t hire out I won’t be deported for using it on the farm.
 
Stargazer said:
Haven’t yet found one of these companies that want to do a Kubota bucket. And Kubota refuses to sell the unusual ‘ears’ used to mount the bucket (unusual because they are machined, not flat on the inside edge, to accommodate a rubber o-ring) which could be used to convert a different brand bucket. The excavator is working well, within its size/power limits. Local pros are amused to see a farang running an excavator. I think as long as I don’t hire out I won’t be deported for using it on the farm.
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FFS mate, just buy another bucket.
 
Stargazer said:
Haven’t yet found one of these companies that want to do a Kubota bucket. And Kubota refuses to sell the unusual ‘ears’ used to mount the bucket (unusual because they are machined, not flat on the inside edge, to accommodate a rubber o-ring) which could be used to convert a different brand bucket. The excavator is working well, within its size/power limits. Local pros are amused to see a farang running an excavator. I think as long as I don’t hire out I won’t be deported for using it on the farm.
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Not as simple as that. Law suggests it's a job a Thai could do.. you cannot own the land the works carried out on, even being your wife's property!
20 or so years ago, I was told to get off my Kabota tractor by the village headman.
 
Surin said:
Not as simple as that. Law suggests it's a job a Thai could do.. you cannot own the land the works carried out on, even being your wife's property!
20 or so years ago, I was told to get off my Kabota tractor by the village headman.
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Or you have to bribe the local headman and hope nobody rats you out to immigration !!! I also got caught some 20 years ago whilst harvesting rice manually with a bunch of Thai workers on my exes riceland. Got reprimanded and asked to refrain of any labourwork that can be done by the Thai.
 
Croc said:
Or you have to bribe the local headman and hope nobody rats you out to immigration !!! I also got caught some 20 years ago whilst harvesting rice manually with a bunch of Thai workers on my exes riceland. Got reprimanded and asked to refrain of any labourwork that can be done by the Thai.
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Now that's one overreaching government regulation I can cheerfully comply with.
 
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