Hi. I'm Ted, from EverythingAttachments.com. We're here to show you the Construction Attachments Severe XTreme-Duty Bucket, which was meant for a track-loader machine. There's some things that are done to this bucket that really make the difference between ... if you've bought a $40,000 or
$50,000 track machine, if you've got a cheap bucket, you're not getting all the performance your machine has to offer, and/or you're going to tear up a cheap bucket on a really heavy-duty piece of equipment. We're going to point out some of the things that make this a track bucket instead of a standard bucket.

A lot of people abuse the name severe or extreme-duty bucket; they just put it onto any cheap bucket because it sounds good. Construction Attachments really does concentrate on anything that's extreme-duty, is meant it will handle anything the machine will do in the 80-ish horsepower range without being able to be bent. When you go to the Severe Xtreme Duty Series, that's going to be for up to up to 100+ horsepower track machines. That means you should be able to do basically anything with these buckets and not tear them up.

Some of the things that are different ... coming to the back of the bucket, and we're going to show you some of the ribbing. Because these things just have a tremendous amount of push power with a track machine, all the pressure's going to be put at these two places right here; all of your lift is going to be done from under this ledge right here. There are through-
gusseted welded pieces that are all the way through, high-tense steel that go all the way around through here to underneath where you're going to be lifting. It's a solid, double-plated back, not to mention the bottom is also two pieces with a rolled piece of steel on the inside to make the dirt start curling instead of just packing in the back. We'll show you the underneath of this bucket later; it's full of gusseting underneath. It's not a lightweight bucket, but it's meant for a track machine.

We're going to go to the front. This is going to come with 3 different options on the front. You could get a tooth bar, which would be bolted into here with two bolts on each side. These are the welded-on shanks; this is going to be for your most heaviest-duty construction work with a track machine. It's what I chose. We're doing a lot of work around my house in the next week. We've already move about 10,000 yards of dirt over here from one side to the other. We're going to be using a lot of skid-steer tools in the next few days, cleaning this up and finishing. They also make a bolt-on tooth for all their other buckets except for the Severe Xtreme bucket which can only come with the welded teeth because of just the severe duty that they're in. This has the nice molded back in it, which you don't see from the backside. It's going to make your dirt curl in here, load the bucket. Then it has a flat backside. A lot of people use to back drag with, so you don't have the rounded edge where it just rolls under. You've got the square edge where this is going to make a good back dragging edge. You've got a nice foot place here so you don't slip getting in when this red clay gets muddy.

This is the heaviest-duty bucket I know of. It's not the cheapest bucket, but your machine will never be better than the bucket you're using. I was using a cheap bucket earlier during the week; it wasn't really designed for a track loader. What they've done here is they've changed the position of this hitch up a little bit, so when you're on your track machine and you're cutting dirt, your bucket can be level and still be below grade. If you use a cheap bucket that's meant for a tired machine and you're going to have to pitch your bucket down to get it under the ground, then you're going to end up with a lot of dipping. If your bucket can't run level and run underground, then it's not meant for what you've got it on. This hitch is positioned properly for a track machine to be able to run 1 1/2 " under the ground and still be level, where you're not having to pitch it down, which is going to make you dip.

Then we're going to go over a couple other machines later, but right now, we're going to start with the use of this bucket. I just wanted to show you that Severe Xtreme means exactly what it says when you're in the Construction Attachments line. Anybody that hasn't operated a track loader; I tell you, they're a beast. Just as good as a cheap bucket hurts your performance, a worn out set of tracks is what keeping him from just being able to make a good, solid push across there. He's ending up raising and lowering his bucket, just like he would if he didn't have a good bucket because he's not getting the traction that he needs.

With the Construction Attachments Severe Xtreme Duty Bucket using on this track machine here, in only about 30 minutes, we just wanted to show you what we can get done. So far, we've got our ditch cut for 30' of 15" pipe to go out here to the road where our exit's going to be for this driveway. We've already taken down about 3 or 4 feet off the top of this berm in less than 30 minutes. We're starting to pile the pile up on the other side, which is the side that I care more about so the neighbors can't see in.

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After working all day in this pretty wet, it's not completely dry, and this is clay and it's real sticky ... because of the way this bottom's molded, it's stayed pretty clean; there's nothing here that's stuck all day. You can see how good it packs, even behind every shank where it can't get the full force; it'll stick onto the thing. We're having to take a shovel ...
come back here and show them, Sam, where we're ... even on the machine back here from back dragging, this clay sticks and packs so well that we're having to take a shovel every 15-20 minutes and dig that out. That's how bad this clay sticks, but yet this Construction Attachments bucket, with its molded mow board is just able to stay clean. If you end up with a bucket that's flat on the bottom and has a couple of square edges in the back, you're going to be seeing this right here all along in here. It just gets deeper and deeper to where you end up with a shovel in the bucket.