[BJR]

That's right. You can pick up FULL loads of stuff, even the fery last bit.

Here's a list of uses-

- there is less stress on the motor and the drive system when you pick up material out of a pile by opening the bucket and lowering it onto the pile and grabbing a bucket full, than poshing into the pile. You also get a bigger bucket full.
- for grabbing stumps, posts and ripping them out of the ground.
- for grabbing difficult items and carrying, such as long posts, big rocks, bulky rubbish, etc. much quicker.
- you can open the bucket and have the front edge level with the back and use it to carry things such as pallets.
- open the bucket a little bit and put a heap of long posts long ways into the bucket. They rest on the front edge and are hard up under the top, back lip of the bucket.
- open the bucket just a little, maybe 6in depending on how deep you want to cut, and crowd the bucket forewards so that the you can backblade and cut away a specified depth. Great for stripping turf and fine levelling.
- Open the bucket and use the front as a grader blade.
- when we are removing old retaining walls and have to remove plants, we dig under the root ball, then open the bucket, which has greater force than lifting with the arms, to break the last roots away at the back of the plant and to lift the plant at the same time.
- when backfilling walls it is quicker to open the bucket than to lift the arms all the way up and croud the bucket foreward. You can also dump the material over a greater height wall this way. This also helps when loading high trucks.

Heaps of stuff.

I have a dirt bucket as well and never use it. I also have a 1/3 cubic metre, 12sq ft, bucket for carrying mulch. It's looks silly but moves a heap of mulch for the size of the machine. An RC30. It would also fit on a 553 bobcat.