Wierd excavator bucket

stumpjumper83 · Dec 8, 2010

So I was looking at a bunch of excavator pics and I came across this one...

any ideas on they they put the prongs on the back of the bucket? Is it a forestry thing maybe?

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watglen · Dec 8, 2010

They look like skis to me. I bet in the winter the poor kids use the bucket as a toboggan?

Buckethead · Dec 8, 2010

Looks like it's for demolition.

stumpjumper83 · Dec 8, 2010

wouldn't you want to keep the hyd cylinders and lines away from the demo?

D5G · Dec 8, 2010

I'd say demo too, can't imagine what you would use it for in a forestry application. I have seen a similar design, but that one had the 'prongs' curved facing down.

stumpjumper83 · Dec 8, 2010

rippin stumps?

S.R.E. · Dec 9, 2010

Looks like maybe a "poor man's thumb"?

Dinale Precast · Dec 9, 2010

It would be good for vertical up removal of material. Stick the prongs under the roof eves and peel the roof away. Stick it under a window frame to pop a window out, push material away from you etc etc.

sporklift · Dec 9, 2010

I'm gonna go with demolition too, especially since that's what the Hitachi in the photo is obviously doing.

watglen · Dec 9, 2010

She is built heavy in the vertical direction, so my guess is the operator wants get under something and lift, like a concrete slab lets say, without the machine siting on top of the slab.

Buckethead · Dec 9, 2010

It would be good for vertical up removal of material. Stick the prongs under the roof eves and peel the roof away. Stick it under a window frame to pop a window out, push material away from you etc etc.

She is built heavy in the vertical direction, so my guess is the operator wants get under something and lift, like a concrete slab lets say, without the machine siting on top of the slab.

Exactly what it looks like it would be good for.

jimrr · Dec 9, 2010

demo prob right but I really really like the toboggan theorum!

kanewolf · Dec 9, 2010

What about flipping the bucket "backwards" to maximize the breakout force?

Greg · Dec 9, 2010

things have been going to h--- in a hand basket since the definition of succes is slowing the rate of failure.

bill5362 · Dec 9, 2010

Bucket

Greg I'm not even sure what all that means in regard to the bucket, but I will give it some serious thought.

I see no practical application for the feet for demo. We do commercial and residential demo, and I just don't see a use, and the breakout force isn't nearly as strong when you would be prying downward. Also I wouldn't be wanting slabs of concrete hitting the back of my bucket cylinder. You would have a very long reach having to keep the two bars parallel with the ground, just my opinion.

Gmc7210 · Dec 10, 2010

I think it's jus some garbage from that building that looks like part of the bucket, because it doesnt really look square to the bucket

stock · Dec 10, 2010

I may be wrong but if the bucket is reversed it may be used for pulling items out of the ground or some such task...

fast_st · Dec 10, 2010

New Esco safety taboggan.

joispoi · Dec 10, 2010

It's shaped like the claw of a hammer. I'm going to have to say he uses it to pull really big nails.....or maybe just for pulling small trees and fence posts.

Dozerboy · Dec 10, 2010

I could think of plenty of thing to use it for during demo, but just as often it would be in the way too. That hoe looks strange looks like ther is some kind of "box" attached to the boom behind the lift cylinders.

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