Attachments for a micro-excavator up to 2 tonnes
It is the class that goes through a garden gate, a block of flats' corridor or a
wicket gate.
Everything it gains in access, it pays for in power — and it is
that trade-off that governs the choice of tools.
Other names for this class: micro-excavator, micro digger, compact mini-excavator, excavator of less than 2 tonnes, micro digging machine, micro excavating machine, 1.5 t excavator, garden excavator.
- Common coupler
- Mechanical
- Auxiliary line
- Not always fitted
- Constraint no. 1
- The weight at the end of the arm
- Strength
- Access
The relative sizes are indicative.
a gateway, a corridor, an enclosed garden.
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What this class allows, and what it rules out
A micro-excavator works where no other machine gets in:
inside a
building, an enclosed yard, a terrace, a walled garden, a basement.
Many models have
retractable tracks and a chassis that comes under a metre.
In exchange, its stability and its hydraulic flow are those of a small
machine.
It is not a 5 tonne excavator scaled down:
it is another
category of machine, with its own limits.
The constraint that decides everything here is the weight at the end of the
arm. On a machine of this class, a few dozen kilos too
many do not mean a lower output:
they mean a
machine that lifts off the ground.
The weight of the attachment is checked before its price.
The tools that go on this class
The ranges below are those recorded from real models in our database.
They do not hold for a maker's whole range:
they
say only that a model exists for this class.
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The buckets, without reservation
Earthmoving bucket,
ditching bucket,
trapezoidal bucket.
They call for no hydraulic line, and that is why they are the foundation of this class. -
The skeleton bucket and the ripping teeth
Models recorded cover respectively 1 to 50 t and the
micro-excavator up to 60 t.
See the skeleton bucket and the ripping teeth. -
The rotary mulcher and the screening bucket, in the mini version
A rotary mulcher recorded goes down to
1.5 t, and a screening bucket
from the mini range covers 1.5 to 8 t.
Both call for an auxiliary line. -
The tools specifically designed for mini-excavators
Trencher,
weed-control brush, screw splitter,
handling thumb.
These are ranges thought out for this size of machine.
What generally does not fit: the
crusher bucket, the
mixing bucket — of which one model recorded
starts at 2.5 t — and the
demolition grabs of high capacity.
These are not refusals of principle:
they are weights and flows that do not
match.
What is checked before buying
-
Is the auxiliary line fitted?
On this class it is frequently an option and often absent.
It is the first eliminating criterion:
without it, no tool with a hydraulic function. See the 7 criteria. -
The weight of the attachment, compared with what the machine accepts
Not with the weight of the original bucket:
with the permissible load at the end of the arm, given by the maker of the machine. -
The type and size of coupler
A mechanical quick coupler recorded covers the micro-excavator up to
1.8 t, and another size takes over beyond that.
It is precisely the zone where mistakes are made. See the couplers. -
The real access to the site
The width that counts is not that of the machine alone:
it is that of the machine with the tool fitted, and the headroom under the lintel if you go through a door.
Have your machine checked.
Give us the make and the exact model of your micro-excavator, and tell us whether
it has an auxiliary line.
With those two pieces of information, the answer is almost
always immediate.
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