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Originally Posted by unclebilly View Post
Glen - nice looking place.

Tractor loader buckets are all over the place. There is no ‘normal’.

Where I go they have loaders with 7 or 9 yard buckets… 1 and a bit scoops fills my tandem gravel truck. They also have scales on the loaders so they don’t overload me. Sometimes, I load myself…

My yard tractor has a 22.6 cubic foot (.83 yard) bucket. And it’s the bigger bucket for that tractor.
And yet landscape supply places tend to use the typical bucket that comes on a back
hoe. I suppose there are minor differences but a yard is a yard and that's the unit used to measure and charge for the material.

Petty post, I know. You are correct in general. Your bucket probably is close to a half a yard when the bucket is spilling out due to an aggressive scoop. It's never a level scoop for me, always over filled to whatever will stay in the bucket.
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