![]() ![]() It is hands down most used bucket and if you get close to a hydraulic tilting one even better. On my smaller machine i have a 1000mm mud bucket with reversible blade but i would recommend wider for yours. You might consider a 4way bucket which will save you fitting a thumb and i find more useful for farm work. The width of your thumb can be a pain if your doing alot of narrow trenches. Your 300 will dig drainage trenches but finish will be horrible unless you bolt a piece of plate on your teeth to improve the bottom. Tiger teeth also helps in tough ground and a ripper is a must if you have rocky ground. When i was operating your size machine the 600 was the most used digging bucket but if you struck any shail or light rock your machine will dig better with 450. I see your 300 bucket has holes for side cutters which I use on all my buckets which will cut and extra 2 inches so you can add or remove them at will. I have a smaller machine and prefer 450mm but i have worked your size machine a lot and it should pull 600mm ok. Here in aus allot of buckets for the small machines are chosen to correspond with trench size for footings on site. Until recently i was like you with just one piece of equipment and it will be fine for what you are planing.Īdding a tow ball to your blade allows the use of a trailer for shifting material around your property. Thanks for any recommendations/thoughts on this. As can hopefully be seen from the picture the machine has a wain-roy type manual quick coupler which I plan to retain for budget reasons. I'm also wondering if a grading/ditching bucket around the 32" size would be useful especially for moving material around more efficiently. However I want to buy one or two larger buckets which brings me to my question: what sizes would be best? The excavators this size with thumbs (which I also want to add) seem to typically have 18" buckets. The machine came with a 12" bucket which should work well for the drainage trenches I need to dig. So I may end up using this excavator for tasks normally done with a loader - moving material for example and grading. This is the only machine I own at present - I don't have a tractor/loader or a skid steer, although I have neighbors who are willing to trade/lend use of those machines from time to time. ![]() I plan to use the machine to resolve various site drainage issues, for pond and creek restoration, trail construction, road/driveway maintenance and some light forest clearing. I'm a property owner who recently acquired a Volvo ECR38 (see previous thread), picture attached. ![]()
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