Weed-cutting bucket
A slotted bucket, for cleaning out under water.
The water drains away as it comes up:
what remains is what you wanted to take out.
Other names for this tool: slotted ditching bucket, wet ditch bucket, barred bucket, ditch maintenance bucket.
- Family
- Digging and ditching
- Classes (t)
- All
- Coupler
- All, by plate
- Power source
- None — passive tool
What it is for
Right: with a solid bucket, the water spills over and flows back into the ditch.
What sets it apart:
it lets the water through and holds back the rest — without which cleaning out a ditch amounts to bringing it back up.
Computer-generated image.
Cleaning out a ditch under water with a full bucket amounts to bringing the ditch itself back up:
the water weighs, it spills over, and it goes back where it came from.
A slotted bucket lets it through and holds back the vegetation, the silt taken up and the deposits.
It is the tool for maintaining a ditch, a pond, a basin and a bank — where you are not trying to dig a shape again, but to take out what has accumulated there since last time.
Not to be confused with the weed cutter. The weed cutter is a cutting tool:
it cuts the aquatic vegetation on the spot.
The weed-cutting bucket, for its part, cuts nothing:
it gathers and it takes out.
Many jobs call for both, in that order. See the weed cutter.
On which machine?
They exist for machines from 1 to 24 t.
For example, on a 5 to 10 t excavator, the weight is generally from 130 to 430 kg.
It is attached via a mounting plate on any coupler.
The fitting details and the figures for the other classes: we calculate them with you for your machine.
What the tool does
It is made of wear-resistant steel, to be checked with you.
For example, for a width of 2 000 mm: weight from 150 to 300 kg.
The volume and the weight of the bucket: we calculate them with you for your machine.
What is needed on the hydraulic side
Recorded flow: 40 l/min, at 140 bar on a 10 to 20 t excavator, to be checked with you.
The power source needed depending on the version: we calculate it with you for your machine.
Figures taken from 17 models on the market.
Your study sets the exact value for your machine.
Rounded values, taken from the models we track.
A range covers the whole family, class by class.
What is missing, and the value for your machine, are worked out with you.
Have your machine checked.
Describe the ditch:
length, presence of water, nature of the deposits, access to the bank.
Tell us also whether the vegetation has to be cut before it is taken out.
- 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.
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Weed cutter
Principle — a cutter bar run under water, which mows without picking anything up.
Use — it comes first, and what it cuts is then removed with a perforated bucket.
Synthetic image.
What determines the choice
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01 — The spacing of the bars or the holes
Too fine, the bucket clogs;
too wide, it holds nothing back. - 02 — The width in relation to the ditch A bucket wider than the ditch works at an angle and damages the banks.
- 03 — Resistance to corrosion A tool that spends its life in water is not maintained like an earthmoving bucket.
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04 — The tilt of the tool
A ditch is rarely cleaned out from its own axis:
the tilt decides the number of repositionings.
What is checked before ordering
- The nature of what has to be taken out Silt, vegetation, coarse deposits, or all three.
- The width and depth of the ditch Measured on the spot, not read from a drawing.
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What becomes of the dredgings
What comes out of a ditch is not always left on the bank:
that point is settled before, not after. - The access and the bearing capacity of the bank It is often that which governs the size of the machine.
- Family
- Digging and ditching
- Compatibility
- The seven criteria in detail →