How Much Weight will the 3000 series hydraulic snow blade lift?

Sergeant said:

The original Johnny Bucket for the Cub 3000 series utilized the Front Hitch for the 3000 series and I think John Rated it at lifting 300 Lbs of material. Johnny Bucket Jr. Cub Cadet 3000 series <img src="http://www.mytractorforum.com/images/smilies/thThumbsUp.gif" border="0" alt="" title="ThThumbsUp" class="inlineimg" />

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Yeah I was looking at that. Looks like he puts a fatter cylinder on the Johnny Sr with his hitch to get a 500lb capacity.

I will probably try the factory cylinder and upsize if needed.
Do you think John would divulge the specs of his cylinder?

Steve you could add a second lift piston, it balances the lift moment left to right and increases the load capacity.



The bucket weighs 160lbs and the chain weighs 426lbs and it lifted it with out trouble. (4 ply tires in the front) :trink39:

DMAC

DMAC said:

Steve you could add a second lift piston, it balances the lift moment left to right and increases the load capacity.



The bucket weighs 160lbs and the chain weighs 426lbs and it lifted it with out trouble. (4 ply tires in the front) <img src="http://www.mytractorforum.com/images/smilies/trink39.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Trink39" class="inlineimg" />

DMAC

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Those pics send me to the front forum page when I click them. Can't see them. Did you add another snow blade cylinder? They are expensive and hard to find. I can get a new cylinder from Bailey for $50.

We bought another lift piston that came with the front hitch, from the Cub Cadet dealer.

DMAC said:

We bought another lift piston that came with the front hitch, from the Cub Cadet dealer.

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When you plumbed them did you go from spool to a "T" then T to cylinders or spool to cylinder with a splitter to the next cylinder?

Thats pretty awesome BTW. ?

Steve Urquell said:

Yeah I was looking at that. Looks like he puts a fatter cylinder on the Johnny Sr with his hitch to get a 500lb capacity.

I will probably try the factory cylinder and upsize if needed.
Do you think John would divulge the specs of his cylinder?

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Yes I think he would :thThumbsU

Steve Urquell said:

When you plumbed them did you go from spool to a "T" then T to cylinders or spool to cylinder with a splitter to the next cylinder?

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We went from the spool to a T then to the cylinders with equal length hoses.
DMAC

DMAC said:

We went from the spool to a T then to the cylinders with equal length hoses.
DMAC

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Thanks for the reply. Any trouble with the hydro keeping up with your bucket? Does the bucket also have dual dump cylinders?

I picked my bucket up today. Swisher 44" with the atv frame mount, hardware, and tooth bar barely used for $300. Pretty stout built unit. Gotta lot of work ahead of me.

Steve Urquell said:

Thanks for the reply. Any trouble with the hydro keeping up with your bucket? Does the bucket also have dual dump cylinders?

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Steve
No problems with the hydro pump keeping up with the bucket up/down, curl dump.
The bucket has 2 cylinders for dumping/curling.


We found the factory welds on the front hitch assembly to be missing entirely or inadequate for a proper workout. We beefed up the hitch with extra steel at the main pivot point above and below, also a 1/4" shaped plate was added to prevent the hitch from spreading due to the repetitive loading.
We use this spacer to maintain the tightest fit at the pivot moment

DMAC

Worked out the mounting today. Hydraulic cylinder or cylinders will go under the bucket. Takes 24" lift height to dump one of these as the dump is at the rear rather than side like a JB.

I have no clue how long my cylinder needs to be to lift this thing. Gonna throw a bracket under it and sort it out at the next session. Just winging it. I'm beat.

If you were closer to Pa. I would consider that. I have a 2004 C5 Corvette with 16K original miles and love the car. I considered buying a 69 prior to purchasing my 04 but only thing with the late 60s corvettes is they weren't really made for someone 6' 3" tall and my head was against the T top while sitting in the seat.

Man oh man. What a terrible 2 days I've had. I kneeled on my right knee on the concrete off and on Sunday working on this thing. Stretched my quad/thigh and right hip later as I was a bit sore. Monday at work my knee started swelling up. After work I iced and elevated it and took NSAIDS/Aleve. Iced it at work today as much as possible and it continued to balloon.

I'm a Physical therapist asst in a hospital and wife is a nurse. I was getting hot later in the day today and figured I was running a fever. Stopped at the wife's clinic and got checked out. Doc put me off work until an ortho doc can look at this thing. The fever and fast swelling is troublesome to me. I don't swell up with injuries and very rarely run a fever.

I'm off work until ortho takes a look at this. Ugh. Give me some good vibes fellas.

ejl6658 said:

Hope it's nothing serious but would agree that the fever is bothersome. Wishing you a speedy recovery and looking forward to seeing your fab of the front bucket.

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Thanks. Wife said my lab came back with white blood cell count normal. Still running a temp tho.

Im a 97.2 temp guy and I'm running 100.7. I'm usually extremely sick at 99 degrees but don't feel bad--just hot. Not sure whats going on.

Doc put me off work till Monday. May get an ortho appt tomorrow if I'm lucky.