Here’s An Opinion On:
Digger Bucket Teeth, Brackets, Blades and more.
by
Gene Baker
How many times have you walked by a construction site, seen an unusual attachment on an excavator arm and wondered what exactly is does? Well wonder no more. There are as many different types of digger bucket as there are different jobs for them to do. We have brought a few of them together to have a look at their different functions and uses.
First let\’s look at the standard digger bucket. What is it made from? It\’s more than just an oversized shovel head. There are seven main components that go into making a digger bucket:
-Collar: These are the heavy duty rings that attach the bucket to the excavator arm. Thick pins are slid through collars on the excavator arm and the collars on the digger bucket, holding the two together.
-Hangars/Brackets: These form the frame that attaches the collars to the main digger bucket body. It needs to be incredibly strong as all the forces that act on the bucket are channeled through this relatively small area.
-Side Cutters: The sides of the bucket are not just there to hold the top to the bottom, they are wear plates that cut the sides of the trench. They are sometimes sharpened depending on how the digger is to be used.
-Cutting Edge/Blade: This is where all the action happens. The steel here is made much thicker in order to deal with the main brunt of the forces as the digger cuts through the earth. Some cutting edges are made from specially hardened steels like Boron 250 or Hardox where the digger bucket is to be used for particularly intensive commercial digging.
-Teeth: Most ordinary digger buckets will have teeth attached to the cutting blade to help in penetrating ground and hard rubble. Teeth are typically welded or bolted on but some can be pinned onto a prong welded to the blade. These can be replaced easily if they break or if a different type of tooth is needed for a specific job, such as a pointed tip for penetrating very hard ground.
Beyond the basic digger bucket there are a whole slew of different bucket types that can be used for particular jobs. Just a few of these attachments are outlined here:
-Grading / Ditching Bucket: Similar to the standard bucket only much wider and has a flat blade without any teeth. Typically used in landscaping where light soil needs to be moved around and leveled. A ditching bucket has a centre spine in the bucket and reinforcements for use in heavier soils such as clay.
-Screening or Riddle Bucket: The back or underside of the bucket is replaced with tines that allows finer soil and rubble to fall through while keeping larger rocks in the bucket to separate the two.
-V Ditching Bucket: A \”V\” shaped bucket for digging ditches with sloped banks.
-Tilt Bucket: Where a more versatile bucket than a V Ditching Bucket is needed, a tilt bucket can be used to dig banked slopes. A hinge at the collar bracket allows the bucket to be rotated through 90 (45 to either side) on the plane of the excavator arm.
Gene Baker is an author of articles in a variety of areas including
digger buckets
. See http://www.dromone.com for more information on digger buckets and other excavation equipment.
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