How to Choose Common Types of Excavator Buckets?

Anhui Yuanpeng has been committed to the sales and service of excavator buckets and other machinery parts. We focus on the supply of high-quality excavator buckets, diversified mechanical parts matching, as well as professional customization and technical support. Below is a brief introduction to the common types of excavator buckets provided by us:

With the continuous expansion of excavator attachments, excavators have been endowed with different functions. However, the original definition of an excavator is inseparable from the bucket. Certainly, due to the change of construction scenarios, the objects to be excavated may be either hard or soft. Therefore, there are various types of buckets as listed below:

1. Standard Bucket

The standard bucket is a common standard-equipped bucket for small and medium-sized excavators. Generally, backhoe excavators are equipped with earth-moving buckets, which are suitable for light operation scenarios such as excavating general clay and loading sand, soil, and gravel—hence the name "earth-moving bucket". It adopts a standard plate thickness, with no obvious reinforcement process on the bucket body. The standard bucket has a large capacity and a large bucket mouth area, as well as a large stacking surface, thus featuring a high filling coefficient, high work efficiency, and low manufacturing cost.

2. Reinforced Bucket

Based on the original structure of the standard bucket, the reinforced bucket uses high-strength wear-resistant steel to reinforce high-stress and easy-wear parts. It not only inherits all the advantages of the standard bucket but also significantly improves strength and wear resistance, greatly extending its service life. It is suitable for heavy-duty operations such as excavating hard soil, relatively soft stones, and loading crushed stones and gravel.

3. Rock Bucket

The rock bucket adopts thickened plates as a whole. High-stress parts are specially reinforced, and easy-wear parts use thicker materials, with reinforcing ribs at the bottom. Reinforcements are applied to the bucket teeth, bucket wings, both sides of the bucket teeth, and the bottom of the bucket. In addition, the rock bucket is equipped with side guards and protective plates. It is suitable for heavy-load operations involving excavating soil mixed with relatively hard stones, weakly cemented rocks, weathered rocks, and hard rocks, and is widely used in harsh working conditions such as ore mining.

4. Mud Bucket

 Also known as the dredging bucket, it has no bucket teeth and a relatively large width. The mud bucket is suitable for plane trimming of slopes (where large capacity is required) and dredging work in rivers, ditches, etc.

5. Ditch Bucket

The excavator ditch bucket is suitable for excavating ditches of various shapes. To meet different operation requirements, ditch buckets come in multiple widths and shapes, such as rectangular, trapezoidal, and triangular. Ditches can be excavated in one go with this bucket, usually requiring no further trimming, resulting in high work efficiency.

6. Ripper Bucket

The ripper bucket is mainly used for crushing, excavating, and loading hard soil, weakly cemented rocks, and weathered rocks, or for frozen soil operations. It generally has single or multiple teeth, with sharp bucket teeth for easy soil breaking. Equipped with high-strength ripping teeth, the bucket has high excavation strength; ripping and excavation can be completed in one operation, ensuring high work efficiency.

7. Grille Bucket

Its design is similar to that of the standard bucket, but its bottom is in a sieve mesh shape, and its volume is generally large. It is suitable for separating relatively loose excavated materials, enabling excavation and separation to be completed in one step. It is widely used in municipal engineering, agriculture, forestry, water conservancy, earthwork projects, etc.

These types of buckets are not all the existing ones, and each has its own advantages in performance. How many of them have you used?