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Attachments for hydraulic excavators

The attachment that fits your excavator.

Advice independent of excavator brands:
the tool is chosen from your machine and your site.

A mini-excavator with a tiltrotator digs a trench on the Salonvert 2026 demonstration ground; other excavators and loaders behind
Real photograph, Salonvert 2026, taken by Arnaud Dufour.

Written study within 3 working days, once the file is complete.

Where to start

Before choosing

It is the tool that decides the day.

That is where the day is won or lost — not in the choice of machine, but in the choice of the tool fitted to it.

All makes, all tonnages, all couplers.
Direct pin mounting, S, CW, Klac, Morin, hydraulic coupler or tiltrotator:
the tool is fitted with the mounting plate for your coupler.

You know neither your flow rate nor your coupler type? That is the most frequent case, and it is not an obstacle.
We start from what you have.

People also say digger. The trade tends to write “hydraulic excavator”, and it is the same machine:
the word changes nothing about the tool you fit to it.

How it actually works:
ten cases starting from a site · four cases starting from a machine.

What determines the choice
Machine
Make, model, tonnage
Interface
Coupler type and size
Hydraulics
Flow, pressure, auxiliary line
Use
Material and frequency

The seven criteria in detail →

A straight trench, made in one pass.
It is the machine that decides what can be fitted to it, never the other way round.
Synthetic video.

No brand imposed.
No stock to clear.
The choice starts from your machine.

What we do

We do not sell a catalogue.
We look for what fits.

We manufacture nothing and we represent no brand.
Our work begins where a dealer's ends:
understanding your fleet and your need, then finding the tool that answers it — wherever it comes from.

01 Analyse

Your machine, its coupler, its flow, and the work to be done.
It is that analysis which rules out three quarters of the references before any comparison.

02 Adapt

The mounting plate, the interface, the size. A tool that exists does not necessarily fit your excavator — it is the adaptation work that decides.

03 Find

If the tool is in no catalogue, we look for the manufacturer. Being tied to nobody means being limited by no range.

01 Method

Start from the machine, not from the catalogue.

A badly matched attachment does not work:
underfed it loses its rate, overfed it overheats, too heavy it unbalances the carrier.
The check comes before the recommendation.

01

Describe the use

What you have to do, and in what material.
Topsoil, asphalt, reinforced concrete and hard rock do not call for the same tool, even at the same tonnage.

02

Reading the machine

Make, model, tonnage, coupler type, flow and pressure of the auxiliary circuit.
If you do not have this data, a photo of the coupler and the maker's plate are enough to start.

03

Receive the study

A written reply:
the tool, the mounting plate to fit to your coupler, the flow required, and what still has to be checked on the machine before any order.

02 Families

Fifteen families, classified by what you have to do.

Not by the vocabulary of the trade.
Each attachment states whether it needs an auxiliary hydraulic line — that is the point which rules out the most machines, even before tonnage.

03 Compatibility

Tonnage is never enough to decide.

On the same 3-tonne mini-excavator, with the same coupler, a recorded crusher-screening bucket calls for 25 l/min at 200 bar, while a breaker of that class works at around 15 to 25 l/min under 90 to 120 bar.
Two tools, one carrier, and pressure from single to double.

Coupler types, sizes by machine class and seven criteria →

What we check before we recommend

  • Interface Coupler type and size, or pin dimensions in direct mounting
  • Carrier Tonnage, reach, stability with the tool fitted
  • Hydraulics Available flow, working pressure, auxiliary line
  • Use Material worked, expected rate, environment

If you do not have this data

That is the usual case with a hired machine.
Two things are enough to start:
a photo of the end of the dipper arm, showing the coupler and whether or not there are auxiliary hoses, and the maker's plate of the machine.

The rest can be found from the model.
You do not have to measure a pin or read a hydraulic diagram.

Diagram of the end of an excavator dipper arm, with five labelled callouts:
                       the dipper arm, the auxiliary line hoses, the quick coupler
                       and its engraved designation, the tool mounting plate, and the attachment.
Where to look on your machine to answer the first three questions.
04 Study

Describe your machine and your site.

The form offers “I don't know” for the technical data.
A private individual with a hired machine and a professional with a fleet fill in the same form, and receive the same check.

Written study within 3 working days, once the file is complete.

05 Follow us
Four mini excavators in different colours, buckets facing each other, an empty speech bubble above each one
Computer-generated image.

The forum, and four places where we post.

The forum is ours:
you ask a question about a machine, a coupler, a flow rate — and the answer stays readable for the next person.

Facebook, the LinkedIn page and group, the YouTube channel are hosted by third parties, and we say so.
No share buttons on this site: the ones the networks provide track you as soon as the page loads, even without a click.

Where to find us

A question about an attachment? 01 84 16 55 49 Send my photos