Importing and modifying a new mini excavator from China

[TimberFarm]

Anyone know of a good seller to buy a silt bucket from. Have some cow ponds to clean out. Nothing on Ali express. Could go with Alibaba but don't know how long it would take.

Could try tiller-king.com
They are the ones loading up the auctions with all these machines.

 

[Fredrik]

Thanks Timber, Typed in Tiller King . com And it routes you to AGT Industrial. Must be the same guys..
33" Bucket no teeth out of stock. Might just fab my own . Good price if they had them , $599 Delivered.
Thank god for plasma cutters.

 

[TimberFarm]

I wonder, do all the chinese buckets interchange?
In my shopping for an excavator I found out that quite a few "factories" are really just assemblers of all the same parts that everybody else is using. Then quite a few "factories" aren't even assemblers, they just buy excavators from an assemblers and have them paint it their color and put their logo's on it.
That's what makes me think that the attachments would be interchangable.
Now that is purely speculation on my part though.

 

[dfkrug]

I wonder, do all the chinese buckets interchange?

From what I have seen and owned, the buckets are all the same until you get to the bigger machines (over 2-3T). They are the same thin-wall, 25mm-pin buckets with backwards bolt-on teeth. I have seen 4 widths.

As for the true factories, there are numerous differences in the design of the main machine and body work, but just a few tiny differences in the boom or dipper or hydraulics. Virtually no differences in the buckets or other attachments.