Snow bucket
snow clearing is done by pushing, not by slewing.
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A lot of volume, little weight, an edge that does not scratch.
Its usual carrier is not an excavator:
it is a loader or a tractor.
Other names for this tool: snow bucket, large-volume light bucket, snow-clearing bucket, snow skip.
- Family
- Roads and winter
- Classes (t)
- All
- Coupler
- All, by plate
- Power source
- None — passive tool
What it is for
Right: on an excavator, it picks up a built-up heap and loads a lorry.
What sets it apart:
its usual carrier is a loader, a tractor or a municipal tool carrier.
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Let us say it frankly, because it is what a reader needs to know:
the usual carrier for this tool is most often a loader, a tractor or a municipal tool carrier. Clearing snow from a yard or a car park is done by pushing and loading, two movements that suit a machine that moves forward better than a machine that slews.
On an excavator, the fitting is done with a mounting plate and is checked machine by machine.
That said, the excavator has its cases:
picking up an accumulated heap, loading a lorry from a stockpile, clearing a point the loader will not reach.
The bucket is then useful for what it is — a very large volume in a light plate, with an edge that marks neither setts nor asphalt.
A snow bucket is not a large-format earthmoving bucket. Its plate is calculated for a light material:
loaded with soil, gravel or water-laden snow, it deforms.
The day it is used “just once” for something else is the day it gets damaged.
On which machine?
A snow bucket exists for all machine classes, on all couplers via a mounting plate.
The exact class and the coupler system: we calculate them with you for your machine.
What the tool does
It is used on roads in winter, for snow.
Its volume, its cutting width and its weight: we calculate them with you for your machine.
What is needed on the hydraulic side
It needs no hydraulic connection: it is a passive tool.
For a hydraulically powered version, the power source: we calculate it with you for your machine.
Your study sets the exact value for your machine.
Don't have these figures?
A photo of the machine is enough to start.
Have your machine checked.
Tell us first which carrier you have:
excavator, loader or tractor.
Then describe the surfaces to be cleared and the movement expected — pushing, or picking up and loading.
- Your machine Its make and its tonnage.
- The auxiliary circuit Its flow in l/min, its pressure in bar, single- or double-acting.
- The coupler in place Its system and its class.
- The work The use, and the material.
Without these details, the study still begins: we will ask you for them.
Or call 01 84 16 55 49 · our lines are open 7 days a week, from 7h to 22h.
Written study within 3 working days, once the file is complete.
What determines the choice
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01 — The carrier actually available
Loader, tractor, excavator:
the answer and the fitting change, and it is the first question to settle. -
02 — The movement expected
Pushing, picking up a heap, loading a lorry:
an excavator does the last two well and the first badly. -
03 — The edge and the wear strip
A soft edge respects paving or new asphalt;
a steel edge scrapes packed snow better and marks fragile surfaces. -
04 — The volume in relation to the machine
A very large bucket is first of all a long lever arm:
full of wet snow, it weighs more than you imagine.
What is checked before ordering
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The carrier and its interface
On an excavator, the coupler designation or the pin dimensions;
on a loader or a tractor, it is quite another fitting. -
The surfaces to be cleared
Setts, asphalt, slab, gravel:
they govern the wear strip. -
The obstacles hidden under the snow
A manhole, a kerb, a speed hump:
they are invisible, and they are there. -
Use out of season
If the tool has to serve for something else, say so:
it will be a different bucket.
- Family
- Roads and winter
- Compatibility
- The seven criteria in detail →