Bucket (machine part)
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A bucket is a specialized container attached to a machine, as compared to a bucket adapted for manual use by a human being. It is a bulk material handling component.
Three miners are extracted during the Farmington Mine disaster, in a bucket attached to a crane
Concrete bucket on a crane
Clamshell buckets from a retired coal-loading crane, now displayed at a dock re-development in Cardiff
Helicopter bucket made of canvas
Power shovel
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A power shovel, also known as a motor shovel, stripping shovel, front shovel, mining shovel or rope shovel, is a bucket-equipped machine usually powered by steam, diesel fuel, gasoline or electricity
Bucket (machine part)
…could be attached to the lifting hook of a crane, at the end of the arm of an excavating machine, to the wires of a dragline excavator, to the arms of a power shovel or a tractor equipped with a backhoe loader or to a loader, or to a dredge. The name "bucket" may have been coined from buckets used in water wheels…
P&H 4100 XPB cable loading shovel
Shovel digging overburden
Big Brutus, which is now preserved as a museum