Selecting the Right Bucket

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Tiltrotator at work -benefits & drawbacks

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Matt showcases different types of buckets designed for various tasks, explaining that the general-purpose bucket is suitable for most work with about 40% wear coverage. In contrast, a heavy-duty bucket with full chevrons and plates on the bottom provides about 80% wear coverage, making it ideal for tough applications like digging in rocks or quarry work. The video also shows a wide-facing grading bucket with a flat edge for smooth finishing and a narrow trenching bucket for precise trenching. The importance of matching the bucket type to the task is highlighted, especially when leveraging the tiltrotator's capabilities.

Goal: Understand the different types of excavator buckets and their appropriate uses with a tiltrotator.

Tools and materials

General-Purpose Bucket Volvo — Standard digging and moving earth, with about 40% wear coverage
Hardox Steel Plates Hardox — Used in heavy-duty buckets for increased wear resistance
Heavy-Duty Bucket Volvo — Digging in hard materials like rocks or for quarry work, with about 80% wear coverage
Narrow Trenching Bucket — Digging precise, narrow trenches
Steelwrist Tiltrotator Steelwrist — The primary attachment that utilizes these various buckets
Wide-Facing Grading Bucket Steelwrist — Creating smooth, flat surfaces and finishing work

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over. And you can see that this doesn't have quite as much at the end of it. So even with this, you do suffer just a titch and in a loss of performance. But again, if you're really that much of a I don't know, I shouldn't say a diva, but if you're that much of a diva about your equipment, it's going to make a difference. Now, the buckets, Matt, let's take a look at this. This is a general purpose bucket from and you can take a look just based on the fact that the side plates here are only coming up half as high as compared to the one you have over there. So this is general purpose and this is going to be the same steel we use on the loader buckets or the rock truck beds. Okay, a hard steel. It has about 40% coverage. That's why it's a general purpose bucket. The one over there with the full chevrons actually has more plates on the bottom, higher coverage on the sides. So you've got about 80% coverage of those hard steel plates on that one. So that's the heavy duty bucket. So if you're doing rocks, quarry type of work, that's good for it. This one is more of a dirt rating bucket. And this particular bucket actually came from steel wrist itself. So it's designed specifically for their attachment. Okay. So that was something that I wanted to ask you is I have noticed that when you're operating these tilt rotator type of attachments. I've seen this bucket used more often than not because this bucket takes advantage of all of the capabilities of a piece of equipment. Am I right? Absolutely. Okay. Now, not to say that you can't use that. If we walked over to the other side of the pile, I had three

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