Features and purpose of excavator buckets

Critical type construction equipment excavators are excavators at any construction site, regardless of its scale, as well as during work in quarries, rescue operations, and liquidation of the consequences of the raging elements. The main movable element of this technique, with the help of which, in fact, all the required excavation and loading operations are carried out, are excavator buckets mounted on arrows.

Excavators are arranged in such a way that the cab in which the operator is located rotates in a circle, respectively unfolding the boom with the bucket in a given direction (180 degrees). This function is provided in all-wheel drive vehicles. As for non-all-wheel drive technology, here the arrow is deflected only at an angle of forty-five - ninety degrees.

Modern manufacturers make excavator buckets from high-tech materials with increased strength, in particular, from low alloy steel. Such products are able to withstand very large mechanical loads, as well as work in conditions of extremely low and extremely high temperatures. In addition, hard alloy coatings that have undergone additional heat treatment are used, due to which the cutting function and wear resistance are increased. The entire production process is under strict control, so there is no doubt that all the necessary technological standards are observed.

Varieties of excavator buckets

The degree of efficiency and speed of the workflow directly depends on the size and design features of the buckets. Today, manufacturers produce a wide variety of their models and modifications. By designation, excavator buckets are classified into rectangular, stripping, profile, planning, loading, rock, trench, skeleton and cultivator buckets.

Ripper Buckets

Rippers differ in the stepped arrangement of the teeth, so they are used both for excavating and when loosening frozen ground, conducting work operations on rocky soils. With their help, you can even crush stones. The development of heavy soil with numerous rocky inclusions is carried out using special rock models.

Loading buckets

Leveling buckets

Leveling buckets indispensable in the process of cleaning and planning works. With their help, road and river slopes, canals, embankments are processed. If you need to dig a narrow trench, necessary for laying a cable or pipeline, you can not do without a special trench bucket. Profile modifications are used not only for earthmoving operations, but also for the purpose of deepening trenches and channels, the slope angle of which ranges from forty-five to eighty degrees.

Cleaning buckets

Cleaning buckets relate to lightweight structures, which is explained by the main scope of their use. So, they are ideal for cleaning riverbeds, ponds and canals from silt, garbage, and other plant deposits. The edge of such a bucket is sharp, but has no teeth, so that all necessary work can be performed as easily as possible.Such products give themselves out by the presence of holes on the bottom and side walls, so that the excess liquid fraction can freely flow back into the reservoir.

Profile buckets

Profile buckets, also called trapezoidal, are intended for the organization of trenches, ditches, canals, gutters and other similar objects, as well as for cleaning canals, ditches and riverbeds. The side walls of such a bucket are beveled to facilitate digging of channels and provide the ability to perform work at any angle. Such a structure allows you to create slopes, preventing soil from falling back into the recess. Depending on the needs and characteristics of each particular object, the slope can be changed. Depending on the characteristics of the soil on which the work is being carried out, the profile bucket can be additionally equipped with teeth or side cutters in order to penetrate the soil easier.

Rock buckets

Rock buckets Designed for the development of frozen previously loosened soils, for working with hard rock in rocky terrain. These buckets are characterized by increased reliability, wear resistance and durability, since the performance of the intended work puts forward the corresponding requirements. The bottom of such buckets is equipped with welded protection, and crowns or side cutters can be included to facilitate work. Such buckets can also be used for loading materials, but use with this function is acceptable only in cases where conventional loading buckets cannot cope. So, they are used when it is necessary to load solid heavy materials, such as construction debris or rock debris.

Trench Buckets

Trench Buckets - the most accurate and small both in volume and in width, which is from 30 to 65 cm. These parameters allow the use of such a bucket when digging trenches of rectangular section, channels, when laying pipelines and communications. The advantages of trench buckets include the ability to use them in almost any conditions and inaccessible places: in urban areas, where space is usually limited, at industrial facilities, etc. The shape of the bucket allows you to get trenches with straight even walls and sufficient depth. Moreover, it is suitable for working with any type of soil: sand, clay, loam, gravel equally well give in to its effects.

Bucket "straight shovel"

Bucket "straight shovel" necessary if the work is carried out above the level of the excavator. The opposite purpose has a bucket "Backhoe", which is useful if necessary to carry out work below the level of the excavator, and this, for example, the preparation of trenches, pits etc.

Skeletal buckets

Skeletal buckets, which are also called lattice or sifting, give their purpose, like other types of this technique, already give the name. They are indispensable when you need to immerse stones or divide them into separate fractions. Due to the design features and the presence of a grating, large particles can be extracted from the soil, sifting out fine fractions.

The above overview of excavator buckets clearly demonstrates the fact that various types of work should be performed using products specially designed for this purpose - this allows you to achieve the best results in an extremely short time.