The Better Bucket
Machines operating in Australian underground hard rock mining endure some of the toughest conditions on the planet. Once the ground is blasted, it is the underground loader’s (or bogger’s) job to load the muck pile into the truck ready to be hauled to the surface and to clean up the drives. The bogger buckets need to withstand the force and wear from being driven into muck piles and scraped against the floor and side walls of the mine. Hence, the common practice to add sacrificial wear packages to protect the structural integrity of bogger buckets in this harsh operating environment – heel shrouds, lip shrouds, underfloor wear bars and profile bars. The Outcast® Bucket Revolution Operating since 1988 and beginning...