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Topic: back hoe buckets
Posted By: Dave A
Subject: back hoe buckets
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 1:18pm
How big of back hoe bucket can I use on my 816B. The guy down the road is selling his excavator  for scrap price. Was thinking for buy in the machine and taking the bucket off before shipping it to the bone yard. What are used buckets going for

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Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 1:47pm
Would have to be a small excavaror bucket. A 36" would be all the larger I would try to use . Then capacity would have to be small for digging , light material but for general use you have to figure swing as well as lift.

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Posted By: Dave A
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 1:58pm
the guy told me it is a 40,000 machine. don't look that big. will have to take a few mesurments. Right now I'm digging with a 18' wide by 23' deep

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Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 2:08pm
A 20 T machine bucket would be like 5 times the capacity or more of TLB

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