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Buckets - Repairs

Buckets for machines under ten tonnes in weight can rarely be repaired when worn. This is because the cost of removing and then replacing parts can be more than the price of a new bucket.

We can offer a repair service for large excavators buckets (for excavators over 10 tonnes), although we need to see the buckets at our works in order to give an accurate quotation. Repair options include:

1. Re-pivoting: changing bucket pivots (where suitable) to suit different excavator set-up.
2. New cutting edges: replacing worn edge. (May also require remedial work to lower side reinforcing plates and side cutters)
3. New tooth systems: fitted to new cutting edge.
4. Wear ribs or straps: repairs to bucket back-plate.

It may not be economic (or possible) to repair buckets where:

1. The bucket is bent or skewed (i.e. the opening when viewed from the front is not ‘square’).
2. The parent metals of the main shell structure are worn beyond sensible limits.
3. There are too many areas in need of change/repaired.