Rock Bucket Brackets

I want to use the Hough to load firewood, so I need to make some brackets.

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Part 1. Cut enough stock for the job.

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Like a hockey game, begin with a face-off.

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Boring for the bucket pins.

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Parting off.

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Time to make the doughnuts.

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A moment of study on layout.

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Bracket pairs tacked together.

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Roughing the pin hole. Would have used a shorter drill, but I don’t yet have much tooling for this mill, and the drill shank just happened to match the one collet on hand.

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Boring to finished diameter. This is so much easier on the Lagun mill.

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I used a section of pin stock to line up for clamp and tack, then finish welded. Brackets are still tacked together.

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This is the start of the Z-link bracket. I should have used heavier stock, but it was all I had at the time. Annular slug cutter on the Bridgeport.

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Boring the pin tabs.

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Tabs welded to backer. This took some minor figuring for appropriate  bucket angle at scoop and dump positions.

TB15And that’s that. Works well, though I need to reinforce the Z-link bracket.