Riddle bucket?

[doobin]

How good are these (in dry conditions) for odd jobs?

I'm thinking a multiscreen. Mainly for small on site soil screening jobs and riddling the muckaway pile to get the concrete out. I was stacking it up the other day and it was so dry I could really see a riddle bucket working. Do they cause much wear, and if so is it mainly in the bucket pins and tipping links? Would probably only use it once a month.

Also have an idea in the back of the head about adding a pivot, springs and a hydraulically driven wacker cam

 

[hiluxman]

My reply is dont bother, esp on small machines.

They shake the s**t outta everything and i mean everything.

If youve big lumps with muck mixed in your better off raking them out rather than shaking them out.

 

[Bri963]

I ordered one for a 12 tonne from DigbitS, it’s been a good bucket. How much damage you do depends on who’s in the seat. We grease all the lower linkages twice a day, part buckets, and if you’re having to shake too much the material is too wet. We’ve cleaned around 1000 tonnes of demo waste, twice through, and hardly any wear. It isn’t a quick way of doing the job, but our machines are generating test data and this is a good way to do it. Commercially, if you’re just doing smallish amounts on site, good way to go.

 

[JimboCX]

Been using mine lately to riddle a few loads of topsoil. Only because I’m raking and sowing the lawns so the finer I can get it the less manual work I have to do by hand.

 

[Shovelhands]

I think you would get more use out of a mechanical screening bucket of some sort and create a better product at the end of the day. But obviously they are much more expensive.
The thing to remember with all of them, is the riddle bucket, or screening bucket, can’t distinguish between a lump of hardcore and a lump of clay or dirt. it’s easy to look at a pile of mixed stuff and assume you can separate it, the reality is sometimes not that simple.

 

[JimboCX]

Neighbour wanted some topsoil this evening so riddle’d him a dumper full.

 

[V8Druid]

Neighbour wanted some topsoil this evening so riddle’d him a dumper full. View attachment 13774

or should that be two ??

 

[V8Druid]

Been using mine lately to riddle a few loads of topsoil. Only because I’m raking and sowing the lawns so the finer I can get it the less manual work I have to do by hand.

looks like you've been doing a grand job of it too Boyo

 

[GazCro]

I have one for 8 tonner when stuffs dry it's ok but don't really like using it tbh shakes digger to bits. I'm actually looking to buy a screening bucket to suit 8 tonner if anyone has any experience of one.

 

[craig]

I find it works OK in the dry, mines just a normal riddle bucket, a piece of turf can upset the job blocking the gaps. I don't like to shake the bucket but take smaller bucketful's and letting the material move in the bucket, for the fines to fall through as you curl it round, rather than shaking the fines out, and the machine to bits. Using that logic, if I was getting another one I would go up weight class or two size of the bucket.

 

[JD450A]

I hate them, BUT my multiscreen with a 20mm screen in has earn't about £600 in the past two weeks as my Box screen is pending quite a few repairs to get it back into service.

For your size machine the Multiscreen will be fine.... ours at 8t is at the top end of what they sell. I think they have actually pulled it from sale in that size after we ripped the top of the bucket out in under 1000hrs.... to be fair they came right in the end.

Only issue is the 20mm screen (the ideal one for topsoil) is too fine to be effective unless the muck is bone dry. 40mm is doable if it's dry.

Just made a screen bucket for our 20t in a hurry yesterday with a 20x40mm grid to furfill a order, worked well enough!

Multiscreen also won't be much cop for separating hardcore from muck. Better with a Landscaping Rake for that.

 

[Furniss]

I have a coupke of hand made riddle buckets for 8t and 3t and a digits for the 1.5t ..... on the right material they are brilliant- we just did a job putting tanks in that was almost all sand with a few stony lumps in and I could backfill perfect with it after it had run through he riddle bucket, next week have a bit of demolition and they want the stone for the rebuild, if its dry we will be able to separate it out lovely.
Used sparingly and in the right circumstance and they are brilliant.

 

[doobin]

I hate them, BUT my multiscreen with a 20mm screen in has earn't about £600 in the past two weeks as my Box screen is pending quite a few repairs to get it back into service.

For your size machine the Multiscreen will be fine.... ours at 8t is at the top end of what they sell. I think they have actually pulled it from sale in that size after we ripped the top of the bucket out in under 1000hrs.... to be fair they came right in the end.

Only issue is the 20mm screen (the ideal one for topsoil) is too fine to be effective unless the muck is bone dry. 40mm is doable if it's dry.

Just made a screen bucket for our 20t in a hurry yesterday with a 20x40mm grid to furfill a order, worked well enough!

Multiscreen also won't be much cop for separating hardcore from muck. Better with a Landscaping Rake for that.

I've actually got a rake- never thought of it!

 

[DaveDCB]

I've actually got a rake- never thought of it!

Riddle solved

 

[Hg2702]

I bought this one of aljilbo buckets ?!! That’s never the right spelling it’s brilliant got it made to 50mm spacings and did a brilliant job cleaning through the plannings pile. Recently used it shifting through walling stone. You’ll find if you run it of your tilt and tilt it so the rear of the bucket is adjacent to the ground it saves a bit of shaking ! I do also have a land rake and tried to double that up as a riddler with limited success

 

[Nick...]

I had one on a ec18 volvo.everything has to be bone dry or they will block.they give the machine hell and after about 20 mins it made me feel nauseous and sick and gave me a headache.was good on crushed concrete separating stone from dust but I sold mine and was pleased to see it go
Nick...

 

[Grahams]

How about making a rotary one out of a cement mixer? No wear on the machine so likely to get more use out of it. I think there was a guy selling them on ebay and there was a thread on the old forum. All I could find was a picture.

 

[doobin]

How about making a rotary one out of a cement mixer? No wear on the machine so likely to get more use out of it. I think there was a guy selling them on ebay and there was a thread on the old forum. All I could find was a picture.
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Considered it, but at 3k too rich for the work I need it for and not worth the hassle of building one.

I really like the idea of adding a pivot, spring and hydraulic wacker cam to a riddle bucket.

 

[GazCro]

Considered it, but at 3k too rich for the work I need it for and not worth the hassle of building one.

I really like the idea of adding a pivot, spring and hydraulic wacker cam to a riddle bucket.

I bet it would still be horrific on the machine though.

 

[doobin]

I bet it would still be horrific on the machine though.

What about the Rotatilt 'pulse' function?