Excavator Attachments List

As the saying goes, "No matter how high your martial arts skills are, you still fear a kitchen knife." Having a weapon that suits you well can greatly enhance combat power and efficiency, enabling you to hit the mark with a single precise strike. Excavators, being one of the most common pieces of equipment in engineering machinery, play an irreplaceable role in municipal construction. The reason for their high usage rate is that they are not just for simple trenching, digging, or loading; more importantly, they can use a variety of "weapons". Today, SC EQUIPMENT brings you an Excavator Attachments List for your reference:

Excavator Attachments List

The bucket is a standard attachment for excavators, responsible for foundation excavation, site leveling, and construction waste cleanup. There are many types, like rock buckets, screening buckets, and trench buckets, playing an irreplaceable role in practical applications.

The hydraulic breaker is one of the most common attachments for excavators, and most excavators are equipped with at least one set. Breakers can be divided by appearance into triangle, silent type, straight split, and banana type, with different working mechanical principles categorized into piston-type breakers and high-frequency breakers. Currently, most breakers we see are liquid-gas combined piston types: relying on the hydraulic oil and rear compressed nitrogen gas to simultaneously push the piston. They are mainly used for mining ore and demolishing concrete.

Quick couplers, also known as quick connectors or bucket changers, come in two types: mechanical and hydraulic, and are used for quick switching between different attachments. Skilled operators can switch in 30 seconds, saving time and improving work efficiency. The now-popular swivel connectors add a 180-degree rotation function and are highly regarded.

Excavator grapples include log grapples, rock grapples, heavy-duty grapples, and clamshell grapples, mainly divided into hydraulic and mechanical grapples. Hydraulic grapples are further split into hydraulic rotating grapples and fixed grapples. They can be selected based on the material to be grabbed, especially for wood, bamboo, stone, steel, and waste, making loading and unloading very fast and convenient.

Hydraulic shears are excellent demolition tools; their blades are forged from hot-rolled steel with high strength. Paired with the powerful hydraulic system of the excavator, they can easily cut through concrete blocks, rebar, and oddly shaped steel. They are widely used in building demolition, concrete structure disassembly, emergency rescue, and other work scenarios.

The screw auger driller's function, as the name suggests, is for drilling, such as for power poles, building piling, photovoltaic power generation, and tree planting. Its advantage lies in not requiring extra soil clearance during the drilling process; one person can complete the work. After drilling, lift the work device and rotate the drill rod back and forth a few times to clear the soil, greatly enhancing work efficiency.

A vibrating compactor, as the name suggests, is for planes or engineering compaction, such as flat surfaces, trenches, pipe sides, and other operations. 

Advantages: low failure rate, simple maintenance; compatible with hydraulic breaker pipelines. The vibrating compactor features a shock-absorbing device, lightweight, easy, flexible operation, and good compaction effect.

The ripper, also known as the vibro ripper, is mainly used for weathered rock construction. It works well in stratified conditions where the bucket struggles to dig and the breaker is too light, leading to wasted effort. Using the ripper first separates the soil or weathered rock layer, and then the quick coupler can switch to the bucket for loading.