Lightweight aluminium bucket
Lightening the bucket increases what the machine can carry.
That gain is paid for elsewhere:
on wear, and on repair.
Other names for this tool: lightweight bucket, light bucket, lightweight handling bucket.
- Family
- Digging and ditching
- Classes (t)
- Small classes above all
- Coupler
- All, by plate
- Power source
- None — passive tool
What it is for
Right: on stony ground, the lightweight bucket gets damaged without digging.
What sets it apart:
everything the empty bucket weighs is taken off what it can lift full.
Computer-generated image.
On a small machine, the weight of the tool and the payload compete for the same load chart.
Everything the empty bucket weighs is taken off what it can lift full — and in the lightest classes, that difference sometimes decides whether a job is feasible.
A lightweight bucket is therefore justified in one precise case:
a material that is not very abrasive, volume to be moved, and a reach that counts more than attacking the ground.
Outside that case, it brings nothing.
A lightweight bucket is not an earthmoving bucket. Digging into stony ground with it, scraping a slab with it, forcing on a corner:
that is wearing out in one season what was meant to last.
And the repair is not handled as on a steel bucket — that point is checked before buying, not at the first knock.
On which machine?
It mainly fits small-class machines.
It adapts to all couplers, via a mounting plate.
The machine class and the coupler details: we calculate them with you for your machine.
What the tool does
This lightened aluminium bucket is used for digging and ditching.
The volume, the cutting width and the 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.
A powered version connects to the hydraulics: what it needs, 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 which machine, what reach and what material.
If the gain in payload does not change the work, a properly sized steel bucket remains the right choice.
- 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.
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Written study within 3 working days, once the file is complete.
On a small machine, the difference is felt at once.
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What determines the choice
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01 — The real gain in payload
It is calculated on your load chart, at your working reach:
anywhere else, it means nothing. - 02 — The abrasiveness of the material handled It is what says whether the lightening will last the season.
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03 — The protected contact areas
Edge, corners, bottom:
they are what makes the service life. - 04 — Repairability Who repairs it, by what process, and in what time.
What is checked before ordering
- The class of the machine and its load chart It is the only place where the gain can be demonstrated.
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The material handled, named and described
Abrasive or not:
everything is decided there. - The protections provided And whether they are replaceable.
- The repair channel It is not that of a steel bucket, and that is planned for.
- Family
- Digging and ditching
- Compatibility
- The seven criteria in detail →