36 inch bucket for mini excavator
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You also only want any extra power for the stick and bucket. I don't know about your machine but I get into situations all the time that the hydraulics are still the limiting factor especially digging just below machine grade.
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The consensus is just don't be stupid with increasing pressure and you shouldn't have a problem. The service Dept's for a lot of makes have percentages for their pressures +/- that are not easily available to the general public. The upping the pressure is probably more common than you would think. Every once in a while you have that rock, stump or root that just a little more breakout would be useful. I should have said not continually using it to the max (I am the only operator). I wondered if someone would pick up on the not using it to the max. The 16" bucket weighs 190 lbs and has a capacity of 2 cubic feet and my 24" bucket weighs 205lbs and has a capacity of 3.9 cubic feet. The bucket on your excavator could be way undersized for your machine, just because it happens to be the bucket that it came with. The only way to know is to have a weighed amount of weight attached to your bucket and do the math as to what you can carry safely and buy a bucket of the correct weight and capacity. The last thing you want to do is tip over. The problem is when your arm is at full extension over the side of the tracks. This amount of weight is easy for my machine to pick up as I have my hydraulics turned up about 8%. I would guess that the bucket and material weighs about 1000-1100 lbs. So if it is overfilled with gravel it is probably about 6.5 cubic feet. My 36" ditching bucket weighs 270 lbs and has a capacity of 5.87 cubic feet. I take them off before they get destroyed and can't read them anymore. Just happen to have the plate off of my buckets in front of me.