Backhoe bucket is a type of backhoe attachment. Backhoe attachments are important pieces of equipment that can increase the effectiveness and flexibility of your backhoe, and it allows you to complete more jobs in a short period of time. Backhoe bucket is available in many types, sizes, and shapes. The sizes usually range between 12 inches to 60 inches. Although some are smaller than or bigger than these usually sizes. Here are some of the different types of bucket.
General Purpose Buckets
This type of bucket ranges from 5 cubic meters to 34 cubic meters in size. Its design usually include: welded gussets in all stress areas (for structural strength), fully welded seams. It is made of Hi-Tensile steel all throughout. It has side cutters, wear plates, and hardened cutting edges.
Rock Bucket
Rock bucket is designed for toughest jobs such as sorting unwanted objects (such as rocks, caliches) from soil, cleaning up debris, and other general use like lifting concrete, debris, frost, hay bales, etc. This type of bucket is very popular for its versatility. It is made of Hi-strength steel; tines are fully gusseted.
Cemetery Bucket
This is specifically designed for digging graves. It is not to be used for normal trenching or tough digging condition. Cemetery bucket has incorporated extra bucket rotation to enable operator to dig straight vertical walls and flat bottom (cuts 90 degree corners). Its capacity ranges from 1.5 cubic feet to 7.1 cubic feet of different widths. Hi-strength steel is used in critical components. Gussets and wear straps are utilized for extra strength.
High Capacity Sand Bucket
This is designed specifically for moving lighter materials such as sand, gravel, ash, loams, light soils, etc. The advantage of using this is that it increases production by 50 percent and decreases operating cost by 30 percent. High capacity sand bucket is usually made of lightweight Hi-strength alloy steel that allows operator to use the total power of the machine.
Pavement Removal Bucket
This is the only bucket designed to tear down asphalt and concrete. There are special designed pavement removal bucket that enables you to hold and load all uneven sized material.
“V” Ditching Bucket
This bucket cuts ditches in one pass. It weighs 12,000 lbs and is 13 feet wide, 9 feet high. Its V-shape design was built to create a sloped ditch so that workers will not get buried in case the ditch starts to collapse.
Ditching and Leveling Buckets
This is the ideal tool for ditching, reclamation, sloping, and precision leveling jobs. It is commonly 36 inches to 72 inches wide.
Cribbing Buckets
Cribbing buckets is used for narrow trenching jobs like railroad maintenance and digging in narrow quarters (water or sewer lines). The long lip design permits the operator to efficiently clean under the rails. It is typically 8 inches wide and 58 inches long. Pin width is 6 ½ inches; center to center pin is 14 inches.
Frost Bucket
This is ideal tool for frost, shale, rock, and coral. Its’ twin sharp tips is designed for ultimate penetration on hard and frozen ground. It digs flat or v-bottom channels.