Have any operators seen or used the Helac power tilt with the power grip bucket? You can look at this system on youtube by just typing in helac or google there web site. We are looking for some kind of reference on this system, it will be put on a new cat 318e excavator. Our operators at this time have the heavy duty cat bucket with frost bits and a hyd. thumb with out the tilt option. This machine is going to be in a county secondary road system in Iowa and will be doing work consisting of ditch cleaning, driveway and cross road pipe removal and installation, rip rap placement, tree grubbing, and concrete demolition mainly but the uses of these machines are endless, our excavators are operating all most year around (depending on the winters) so we would like something pretty reliable. Or do you operators think we are better off to stay with the hyd. thumb and the heavy duty bucket? please respond and THANKS IN ADVANCE.
I priced the power grip bucket but ended up with a progressive thumb (heavy) on a different machine. That said with the power tilt the versatility factor would really climb, doing the grade all type work. The Power grip functions as a normal bucket then open it up to crumb, pick up, place, clamp, pull + add the tilt and it would be just like your human arm. I like 'em. Just can't afford them! Post back what you decided.