- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Not ditching, but my old McConnell had a trenching bucket with an “ejector”. Never seen another bucket with one. Often think of it when I am shaking clay off
Ditching with back actor on tractor
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Dave W
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Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Ejector buckets were quite common as often the trenches dug were very narrow to help with the capacity of the digger. We normally used a 12 inch bucket on out MF digger for trenching round the farm but it was expensive putting gravel over drains , and what the H&S would have said about it . Couple of times I got stuck in a trench when the side came in.
We did not use an ejector though but a clay spade which had no sides and was as good
We did not use an ejector though but a clay spade which had no sides and was as good
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Thats actually a disadvantage, the boom is in front of you and you have to look around it, anyone digging a trench with a backhoe has it slide to one side so you can see better, a backhoe ditching has the whole bucket blade visible to the operator and you sit closer to the ditch.
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
I've got a DB bucket with an ejector plate. Don't know why more buckets don't have them. There seemed to be more specialist buckets when these old back actors were new than there are now. You never see a round ditching bucket or a round bottom draining bucket for a new digger now.Not ditching, but my old McConnell had a trenching bucket with an “ejector”. Never seen another bucket with one. Often think of it when I am shaking clay off
We had an ejector bucket on our old MF 220 digger. Dad bought it new to save shaking the guts out of the old machine. Still lying in the yard somewhere.
- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
Cause they aren't a 'sheugh' bucket any more they are a 'grading" bucket. Different geometry and much longer mouth. We lost the benefit of the small rounded backed sheugh bucket when we all moved to quick hitches, increased the radius too much.
ollandroverman
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- Location
- nr Kendal (The Lake District)
I take it " sheugh" must be a local term for ditching bucket?
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
A sheugh is just a trench in the ground.
"the lorry came off the road, and left a great sheugh in the field"...
Bloody nice to see the term being used on here
ollandroverman
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- Location
- nr Kendal (The Lake District)
Not a term that has any meaning around me. Hence the question
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
I'm aware it's a local thing, hence I gave an example of the word being used
I had thought it was a Scots word, but the fact @shumungus used it... It is maybe Irish and was adopted here after the navvies came over and put all the drains in
Boohoo
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- Newtownabbey
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- Location
- South West Scotland
- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
Sorry everyone as I was replying to @Boohoo I was using local phrases. A Sheugh in this part of the world is an open field drain with a D shaped cross section that is fed by field drains, what the majority of you men I think call a 'ditch'.
Where as we call a 'ditch' a dry stone wall or earthen sod field boundary.
Where as we call a 'ditch' a dry stone wall or earthen sod field boundary.
holywell farmer
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- Location
- holywell, north wales
I would say 8 ton digger with zero swing be good for ditching and working in a tight spot
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
I'm not originally from NI so to me a sheugh is a ditch, which is called a douit back home.
Never really understood the NI use of the word ditch.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
Don't know why they ever went over to you lot to put in drains, there are no shortage of places here that needed them.?I'm aware it's a local thing, hence I gave an example of the word being used
I had thought it was a Scots word, but the fact @shumungus used it... It is maybe Irish and was adopted here after the navvies came over and put all the drains in
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
Generally I don't use the word ditch unless online and never use the word dyke. Sheughs carry water and hedges are field boundaries in my wee world.You call a dyke a ditch? And the English call a ditch a dyke?
Bloody jesus ?
The word sheugh is often used when ploughing as well, it's the furrow to those who are struggling to follow all of this.
Edit: I do actually use the word dyke, had forgotten about the dyke back sward, not for the first time either!