Help me identify this ditch digging tool

[kirkkw]

I don't know the origin of this backhoe ditching bucket.

It is approx 23" long X 6" wide.

Note: it has a cable attachment point on the end so it must be old.

Is it worth anything more than scrap iron?

 

[LXCam]

Looks more like dredging bucket off a conveyer system to me.

 

[kirkkw]

Looks more like dredging bucket off a conveyer system to me.

It makes sense since there is an opening in the bottom at the top end.

 

[quickfarms]

Yard art.

 

[kirkkw]

Yard art.

Scrap iron or scrap yard art.

 

[Al Borland]

Make a nice planter with some drainage holes...

 

[doctordirt]

I have never seen one up close, only from a distance, could this be a bucket from a wheel trencher.. As the large 8 or 10 ft. diameter wheel turns it loads individual buckets. As the buckets continue to rotate, they invert dumping the soil on a conveyor.

 

[kirkkw]

I have never seen one up close, only from a distance, could this be a bucket from a wheel trencher.. As the large 8 or 10 ft. diameter wheel turns it loads individual buckets. As the buckets continue to rotate, they invert dumping the soil on a conveyor.

Certainly, this appears to be a possibility. I am a little stumped by the cable loop at the end. To me that suggests a lot of age yet it still has paint on it which suggests its not THAT old.

 

[quickfarms]

This bucket does not fit the common version of the rotary trencher



Can you post some pictures of the cable attachment

 

[Renegade1LI]

Almost looks like a trench bucket for a skid steer or tractor.

 

[kirkkw]

This bucket does not fit the common version of the rotary trencher

Can you post some pictures of the cable attachment

Here is the cable attachment

 

[kirkkw]

To close the loop on this thread - that bucket was included in a trip to the scrap iron recycler.