Bad Day!!!

Sorry that happened to you!  Bad day indeed!

Glad you were not injured.  I would have had to go and change my shorts after that.

Yikes, hope you are o.k. Nothing some welding and body work wont deal with. Get some rest and youll have it fixed in a day or two, good luck, TREV.

As long as your not hurt, its a great day. And now you have a great reason for buying yourself a "NEW" Miller Wirer Feed Welder. I love my Miller. It makes even my welding look good.

As long as you're not hurt...then its just troublesome. Beats pain any old day!

Looks like a larger cylinder might have been the culprit.

I never knew a trip bucket loader would fit on a 190. Those were built for a 400 lb bucket full of manure or snow. Bales are probably a little out of their league unless they are small ones.

Claus wrote: Looks like a larger cylinder might have been the culprit.

I'm not seeing that... I'm seeing a weldment fail on the RH arm's dog-leg, starting at the top, and extending to the bottom... then the bucket fell, twisting the RH side.

If there WAS a larger cylinder installed, really wouldn't change the condition- if that weldment was 'right', it would have been AT LEAST as strong as the tube, but the weld clearly wasn't.  Tube should have bent before that joint failed.  A good engineer would have cited the lack of a secondary plane of weldment to extend the support zone up the tubes each way at LEAST as far as the tubing is wide or deep.  In all reality, the butt-weld isn't a good thing to rely upon under any circumstance other than direct compression.  The flexing moment under this application is high tension at the top of the joint, bending moment in the middle, and compression at the bottom... totally unsuitable for providing appropriate SF for this geometry.  Note that since this one couldn't have been welded from the INSIDE of the tube, weld penetration really won't assure 100%... and incipient cracking probably started long ago, after moisture got in there and corroded and froze-cracked it a tiny bit more at-a-time, it finally found it's failure point.

I would certainly use this as an excuse to get a really good welder (ANY excuse is a good excuse to get a good welder), but in this case, I would only use the wire-feeder to 'tack' pieces together.

Specifically, I would grind both faces to smooth fit, and chamfer all four sides to get as close to 100% as you can get... then fit 'em close, tack 'em with the MIG, then put in a two-pass bead with 1/8" E7018, first slow at 95A, and second faster at 110A.  After cooling, I'd grind the side faces so that a 3/8" or 1/2" splice plate would lay flat on each side of EACH arm, tack 'em in place with the MIG.  I would FINISH weld the gusset/sideplates on with 5/16' E7018 at about 130A...

Then I'd take it out in the field somewhere safe and TRY TO BREAK IT...

there is nothing wrong with MIG welding the entire repair. Tensile strength on 7018 is 70,000. Tensile strength on ER70s is 70,000.