David Boreham
Active Member
I'm a property owner who recently acquired a Volvo ECR38 (see previous thread), picture attached. I plan to use the machine to resolve various site drainage issues, for pond and creek restoration, trail construction, road/driveway maintenance and some light forest clearing. This is the only machine I own at present - I don't have a tractor/loader or a skid steer, although I have neighbors who are willing to trade/lend use of those machines from time to time. So I may end up using this excavator for tasks normally done with a loader - moving material for example and grading.
The machine came with a 12" bucket which should work well for the drainage trenches I need to dig. However I want to buy one or two larger buckets which brings me to my question: what sizes would be best? The excavators this size with thumbs (which I also want to add) seem to typically have 18" buckets. I'm also wondering if a grading/ditching bucket around the 32" size would be useful especially for moving material around more efficiently. As can hopefully be seen from the picture the machine has a wain-roy type manual quick coupler which I plan to retain for budget reasons.
Thanks for any recommendations/thoughts on this.
The machine came with a 12" bucket which should work well for the drainage trenches I need to dig. However I want to buy one or two larger buckets which brings me to my question: what sizes would be best? The excavators this size with thumbs (which I also want to add) seem to typically have 18" buckets. I'm also wondering if a grading/ditching bucket around the 32" size would be useful especially for moving material around more efficiently. As can hopefully be seen from the picture the machine has a wain-roy type manual quick coupler which I plan to retain for budget reasons.
Thanks for any recommendations/thoughts on this.