Skeleton bucket / screening bucket / grid bucket for mini excavator 80 cm

Mechanical sorting with a screening bucket

The 80 cm skeleton bucket fits mini excavators whose stick accepts a pin spacing of 90 mm and a pin diameter of 25 mm. Its open structure with vertical bars retains coarse material while fine soil falls through the gaps. The operator keeps control of the sorting without swapping tools or leaving the cab.

Six replaceable teeth engage the ground at the start of each pass. They are designed for ditch cleaning, stone picking on platforms, and screening backfill. Blocks, bricks, and roots stay trapped in the bucket, ready to be piled or loaded into a truck.

Mounting and machine compatibility

• Width: 80 cm
• Pin spacing: 90 mm
• Pin diameter: 25 mm
• Carrier range: mini excavators 800 kg to 1.6 t
• Teeth: 6 replaceable units
• Sold without pins

Before fitting, check the side play between the hitch plates and the alignment of the boreholes. A 90 mm pin spacing prevents any risky adaptation. Teeth can be replaced individually when wear reduces penetration at the excavation edge.

On machines between 800 kg and 1.6 t, this tool completes a set of digging or cleaning buckets. It fits between excavation passes and finishing work, especially after stripping topsoil. Screening leaves a finer, more even layer that can be reused for backfill or leveling.

For linear work along ditches, the 80 cm front covers the useful width without shifting the machine. The bucket works perpendicular to the travel direction, with steady closing cycles that work the material against the bars. Fine fractions fall through, stones stay inside.

Two similar attachments worth knowing about: the 80 cm skeleton cleaning bucket for wet trench bottoms, and the Norteck 100 cm rake bucket for coarser sorting on large areas. A hydraulic thumb is also relevant if you need to pick sorted blocks without setting the tool down.