Does anyone have operated a track loader with a side dump bucket?

[equipment fan]

Hi guys,does anyone of you have operated a track loader with a side dump bucket?:confused:

[murray83]

Local outfit who do nothing but water and sewer work have a Cat 953 with one but its barely used anymore maybe once in the last 2 years.

[equipment fan]

ok thanks,but do you have a pictures or the site of the local outfit???

[murray83]

No sorry :( its in a fenced in yard at the back and hard to see.

[equipment fan]

ok thanks,i will try to find pictures on the web.

[digger242j]

I never used one, but remember watching one work years ago. Interesting concept...

[Deas Plant]

Hi, Equipment Fan.
I have never used a side dump bucket but a Cat 953B that a past employer purchased had a 2-way version fitted to it. These buckets are normally used in underground applications where the loader would be dumping into small rail skips and turning room is at a premium, or in other tight-psace situations.

I operated that 953B for over 2 years but we never used the side dump bucket. We needed a 4-in-1 bucket for the work that we were doing and fitted a second-hand one to the machine before it went to work.

[equipment fan]

thanks for information deas plant:notworthy

[nedly05]

Never have seen a side dump on a track loader before, but a few years ago there was a new water main going in right past our shop and they had a 624H JD loader with a side dump bucket. It was really slick for bedding, the operator could travel with the ditch and side dump while travelling along to bed the pipe. They only used it like that in tight spots where the operator couldnt come to the ditch and dump normally. Sorry no pics, I'll search around the web and see what I can find!

[nedly05]

Is this what you're looking for?

[digger242j]

That looks like what I saw. It rolls forward and dumps conventionally as well, but one side is sort of open-ended, for the side dumping function.

The job I saw it on was a street reconstruction, and it was being used to load out the old pavement, dumping sideways into the trucks. As I said, that was quite a few years ago, before excavators were so common.

[equipment fan]

yes!!!nedly05,this type of equipment

[nedly05]

The one I saw would side dump, and dump conventionally as well, I would like to have one, but we would never use it much, so I guess we won't be getting one of those very soon :D (rather have a swingin' grade bucket for the excavator)

[rino1494]

I have never seen one in person on a track loader, but they are very common around here for rubber tired loaders.

[surfer-joe]

Years ago, early seventies in and around Denver. Was mounted on a Cat 955 Traxcavator. No cab, no ROPS, had foot steering. Purpose was to avoid turning with the crawler loader and tearing up the ground-pavement, or to work in narrow right of way, such as along railroad tracks. I ran it for several months for a guy, ran out of work for it and never used the side-bucket much. Next job a day or so later for another outfit was a 977, still no cab, and it didn't have a side-bucket either. But I sure did like that 977, sweet machine.

[Steve Frazier]

I think the reason they are a rare item is that the need for them would be very specialized. While I've seen the side dumping buckets on wheel loaders numerous times, they were always being used for backfilling trench work beside pavement. Most times it was stone being used drawn from a stock pile. A track loader wouldn't be used on pavement for obvious reasons, plus a wheel loader is much faster transporting material distances such as from a stock pile.

I'm curious of your interest in these equipment fan. Do you have a job that requires one?

[equipment fan]

no,i dont have a job with this type of machine but i`m interesting to buy or rent one.I think a track loader with a side dump bucket it`s use in pipeline industry.Because in this industry,it`s look a muddy type of soil and track is better than tires in mud!!!

[345cl]

:rolleyes: equipment fan we use them in the fields so we dont waste stone especially clear stone,there beautiful to backfill the trenches and to bring me stone only a ton or two,,,,,,,,,,,

[MKTEF]

Hey equipment fan.
Here in Norway we use the side dumping bucket in all tunnelling projects.
The only thing here is that we use it on wheel loaders.
The big advantage of this type of bucket is that you don't need to turn your equipment when you unload the material.
I would say that this type of equipment is so spesialised that i se few other places to use it.
The advantige is that yoy drive straight forward and fill the bucket, back stright bakwards and then can dump the materiall sideways into your truck.
Loading in i a narrow tunnel is a perfect place for this type of equipment.

The advantage of the track loader is its strenght forward, but the operaters dislike the bad comfort when driving it. Tunneling floors is not level at all.:(
This type of equipment combination is therefore very rare.
Even in the smalest tunnels it is faster and preffered to use a mining wheel-loader and then cary the material out. (Because these narrow machines have huge buckets)

This type of combinaton is more common in european tunneling where the rock is softer and it is easier to get a level tunnelfloor.(track loader and sidedump)
Her is an pdf of buckets from the biggest manufacturer of these buckets in Europe: http://www.gjerstad.com/uploads/Sidedumpingbucket.pdf

You should also consider that sidedumping material demands that you stand along the unloading place. The risk of tipping is high, and a tracked vehicle easily slides sideways if you start turning over..
I would prefer to have the vehicle 90 degre on a ditch.
In a tunnel you stand on solid ground..:)

[equipment fan]

Thanks for the info MKTEF:notworthy and also for the pdf.

[pwbsmokey]

Around here in the 1970's and 80's Cat 977's with side dump buckets were very popular for tearing down houses in the city. We would weld a tooth to the top of the bucket on the side that would open (not the hinge side), then open the bucket sideways and reach up and hook beams and rafters with it. Back up and break them or pull them down, then keeping the bucket open tip the bucket forward and collapse the side walls in. Just keep walking up your debris pile working your way forward. We also had a box beam mounted across the top of the bucket that we could slide out and pin into place. This had a piece of cutting edge welded to it and we would use it if we needed more reach. Again open your bucket, reach up and then tip your bucket forward and you could cut rafters like you were using a hatchet. Once the house was on the ground, we would grind it up and load it out. Fill your bucket, back straight back and you would be alongside a dumptrailer, sidedump into the trailer, lower your bucket and drive straight into the debris pile and refill your bucket. These were two and a half story homes in the city, on very narrow lots. It was not unusual to be able to stand between two houses with your arms stretched out to the sides, and be able to touch both houses.

[MKTEF]

Found this site with some pictures of the use of a side tipping bucket.
http://www.tungtransport.com/T.engene.htm

Halfway down the side there is 10 pictures of the use of a sidetipping bucket.
Both inside the tunnel, loading the blasted rock and outside in daylight.

And take a closer look at the Mercedes turning inside the tunnel!
The length of the trailer is desided by the width of the tunnel.
The trailer got a lift on the front axle to cope with the turning. U save some tires on that.;)

This firm got a lot of trucks and trailers for this purpose, they move around from tunnel site to site.(glad i quit the tunnel driving 16 years ago!)
There is also a link on the bottom showing a big pics of a loaded truck/trailer.
These trailers got special axels with a very high payload.:eek:
Mekanical lift with sylinders on the front axle.

If u press the "lastebiler" link at top left, u get some transport firms and their equipment. Huge amount of pics, mostly special transport.:)

[equipment fan]

Thanks for the link,it`s a pretty big side dumping bucket!

[MKTEF]

That looks like their L220C.;)

But they got some L330's with sidetiping buckets too....:cool:
They got a L330c for sale, 60 ' $, the sidetipping bucket for that machine goes for 30'.14500h.

They are loading 60 000lbs in the trailers on the pics.(30t):)

[equipment fan]

wow,pretty big loaders with this type of bucket.

[dynahoescott]

:rolleyes: equipment fan we use them in the fields so we dont waste stone especially clear stone,there beautiful to backfill the trenches and to bring me stone only a ton or two,,,,,,,,,,,

Hi equipment fan, around my part of the woods, basically every loader from a 966 and down are equipped with side dumps . Upon occasion you even run into a track loader equipped with a side dump. I personnally ran one on a 977l petrillo had, and I saw them on 955, 963 and one on a 951c and the guy told me he interchanges that bucket on a 930 wheel loader routinely, very smart man I recall, a side dump on a track loader is extremely handy. I was back filling foundations with it and found it invaluable:Pointhead