18" BX25 Backhoe bucket

[Jj1479]

Well figured I would post this bucket I built for my BX25 I did about 3 weeks ago. I was tired of it taking forever to dig bigger holes. Only have few pics as I got to involved into the project. Sides are 1/4" high-tense steel along with the side cutting edges an the cutting edge that the teeth are bolted to is Hard-ox 450. Wasn't to bad to build I just tacked the back plate to my 12" bucket an heated an curled the bucket to get the radius. The bad part was the teeth were $34 each

 

[Gary Fowler]

Nice looking bucket. I hope you are using it in loose material. Around here, I can barely use a 12" bucket on my much larger B26 TLB. I would love to have a 24" bucket to use when cleaning muck out of our ponds which would be the only use for anything larger than my 12". I got it with a 7" bucket that the P.O. had cut down from an 18" which is pretty good for trenching as long as the material is not damp, otherwise it is bad about sticking in the bucket.

 

[Johnkn]

Looks like a nice, purposeful bucket. I'd like to get a 7-8" bucket for mine for burying drain pipe. I saw one guy here post that his brother custom made one, it was very long compared to the standard bucket, I emailed him about it and never received a response.

 

[kcender]

Nice looking job on the bucket.When I had my BX25 I made a 16 inch bucket for it.It made digging a lot faster and the BX seemed to handle it with no problem,at least for my soil type.

 

[Jj1479]

Nice looking bucket. I hope you are using it in loose material. Around here, I can barely use a 12" bucket on my much larger B26 TLB. I would love to have a 24" bucket to use when cleaning muck out of our ponds which would be the only use for anything larger than my 12". I got it with a 7" bucket that the P.O. had cut down from an 18" which is pretty good for trenching as long as the material is not damp, otherwise it is bad about sticking in the bucket.

It actually works pretty good. Don't have a lot of hard rocky soil. Only used it once so we shall see this summer.

 

[Jj1479]

Nice looking job on the bucket.When I had my BX25 I made a 16 inch bucket for it.It made digging a lot faster and the BX seemed to handle it with no problem,at least for my soil type.

Thanks. I dug out for a retaining wall in behind my pool fence an I couldn't really tell a difference from that one to the 12"

 

[walker450]

Nice work! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Jj1479]

Looks like a nice, purposeful bucket. I'd like to get a 7-8" bucket for mine for burying drain pipe. I saw one guy here post that his brother custom made one, it was very long compared to the standard bucket, I emailed him about it and never received a response.

They aren't that bad to make just time consuming. What sucks is the back of the buckets are smaller then the top/bottom is. I found out after I had it curved an had to cut another back once I figured that out to get the width I wanted. I'm actually going to build a 8" bucket for that same reason this spring.

 

[Jj1479]

Nice work! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks a lot.

 

[CHDinCT]

Nice work. Now you just need to fab up some kind of quick change system so you can swap buckets real fast. A member by the name 4shorts made one for his BX25 and put a video on youtube. Seems he doesn't post here all that much anymore, but you might check out his youtube video for more ideas. Again, nice work.