Excavator communications bucket build.

[Smokeydog]

I had gotten a hooked bill 12” backhoe bucket years ago from a utilities auction cheap. Was the best for water lines and stump digging. Not as long nose as yours. Regrets selling it with the backhoe as those are rare now. Can see yours would be handy.

 

[spitter]

Show us the other 3 buckets and the action photo's next.

 

[Fixastuff]

This is the 24"er I made sitting on top if the Tag Manufacturing 36" that I got with the machine.

Show us the other 3 buckets and the action photo's next.

 

[spitter]

 

[Fixastuff]

The 24" is nice when you have to get in the trench to work. Here I had to couple these two runs of conduit together.

 

[spitter]

What do you think of your Takeuchi? Looks like a Huckleberry. Want a old tb135 for my next toy. Can't imagine digging in sand like that , looks like a day at the beach. My parts 3" topsoil the rest is shale and rotten stone.

 

[Vigo327]

Love the new bucket! I might modify a piece I have into something similar, although I don't use my backhoe for work. It would just be a multipurpose narrow/trenching/prying bucket. Nice work!

 

[Fixastuff]

The needle bucket saved the day. Had a problem with a pipe next to and under another conduit. Was able to dig 5ft down and underdig the other to couple it. Would have been miserable by hand.