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5 Reasons Why Screening Buckets are the Perfect Mobile Backfilling Solution

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Gyru-Star 4-120MAX screening bucket backfilling a cable trench
Gyru-Star 4-120MAX backfilling a cable trench

When it comes to utilities and infrastructure projects, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability are key factors to success. Screening buckets offer a unique solution that excels in all these areas, making them an essential tool for contractors worldwide. 


In this blog post, we’ll explore the key advantages of screening buckets, highlighting how they can help you save time, reduce costs, and meet the challenges of modern jobsites. Whether you’re working on a major infrastructure project or a smaller-scale utility installation, screening buckets are the perfect mobile backfilling solution.


Cost-Effective


There are three main ways a screening bucket can save you money on utilities and infrastructure projects. Material cost, waste disposal costs and operational costs. 

By recycling material onsite, you not only generate less waste material, but you eliminate the need to purchase new material. Whilst the same could be said for any screening solution, screening buckets are far cheaper to run than tracked or static screeners, reducing your operational costs.


Screening buckets are also cheaper to hire or purchase than screening plant, they don’t require additional fuel and maintenance is minimal. All of which help keeps costs to a minimum and maximise your profits.


Streamlined Operations



Screening buckets are an excellent tool for streamlining your operations, as they allow multiple processes, such as screening and backfilling, to be combined into a single operation. The speeds up the overall process and reduces the need for material rehandling.


Furthermore, with a screening bucket you can screen material right where it’s needed, using machinery you already have onsite. This means less machinery, fuel and operators are required onsite. The end result of which is fewer liabilities, increased efficiency and greater profits.


Environmentally Sensitive


On environmentally sensitive jobsites, biosecurity can be a concern when bringing in material from offsite. By screening material back into the trench it was excavated from, you limit the possibility of contamination. Also, we far fewer moving parts, screening buckets are considerably easier to decontaminate than tracked or static screeners.


Screening buckets in the Gyru-Star range also use sealed bearings and lubrication-free carbon belt drivelines, which eliminate the risk of contamination from oil and grease. The carbon belt drives also make Gyru-Star screening buckets incredibly quiet, perfect for noise sensitive jobsites.


Furthermore, as material can be screen right where it’s needed, machine movements can be limited, helping to reduce ground compaction.


Reduced Downtime


Screening buckets, especially those driven by carbon belts, require a fraction of the maintenance that tracked and static screeners do. This reduces the amount of time lost to maintenance and repairs, keeping the job moving.


Delays can also arise from late deliveries, and poor conditions and remote jobsites can also add further delays. Screening waste material onsite eliminates your dependence on deliveries, and any resulting delays.


Buckets can easily be swapped between machines if one carrier requires maintenance or repair. Many models are compatible with both excavators and loaders, allowing for further versatility.


Furthermore, if your main carrier requires a repair or maintenance, most screening buckets can simply be swapped to another machine. In the case of Gyru-Star screening buckets, each model is compatible with any carrier that’s within its weight range. Some models are even compatible with both excavators and loaders, allowing for greater versatility and reducing downtime.


Remote and Confined Jobsites






Gyru-Star 4-150MAX Backfilling on a utilities project in Sweden
Gyru-Star 4-150MAX Backfilling on a utilities project in Sweden

Unlike tracked and static screeners, screening buckets can go anywhere the carrier can. This is a major advantage on remote and confined jobsites, where access for larger machinery and HGVs may be difficult.


This is one of the reasons that, in Sweden, Gyru-Star screening buckets have become the industry standard for utilities contractors. On remote jobsites, the cost of bringing in new padding material to site can be prohibitively expensive. In these cases, contractors have reported that their Gyru-Star screening buckets paid for themselves in as little as 7 hours, thanks to the savings on materials.


Screening buckets are also ideal for confined urban jobsites, where access is limited or there simply isn’t space for a screening plant.


Transportation of an attachment is also far cheaper and easier than tracked or static screeners, as they can be delivered to site with the carrier. Some models are also small enough to easily fit in a van or pick up bed.


Looking for a Screening Bucket?


Ready to turn your liabilities into assets? Check out our range of purpose built backfilling bucket here. Alternatively, you can find your nearest Gyru-Star dealer here.


Gyru-Star are the global market leader in non-destructive screening, and we offer the largest range of poly-star screening buckets on the market.


All our screening buckets are designed and manufactured in Great Britain and come with a range of industry leading features as standard. This includes a multi-layer monocoque shell, stainless steel non-stick floor, Hardox reinforcement and ultra-low maintenance carbon belt drives.

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