Attachment for earth moving blade

Abstract

A dozer blade attachment comprising a bucket element having a closed floor panel (31) defining two opposed sides, a rear edge (35) and a front edge (33), where the rear and front edge are spaced from each other and extend between the sides, the bucket element further comprising two side panels (37), the side panels being located at the opposed sides of the floor panel and extending upwardly from the floor panel, the side panels extending at least partially between the front and rear edge, fixing means (41) provided in association with each side panel proximate the rear edge, the fixing means being adapted to enable the attachment to be mounted to a dozer blade to enable the attachment to be movable on the dozer blade about an axis substantially parallel to the main axis of the dozer blade between a lowered position at which the rear edge is closely adjacent the lower portion of the dozer blade and the floor panel extends forwardly there from to define a bucket having a substantially closed lower portion and a raised position at which the floor panel extends upwardly and the rear edge is spaced forwardly and upwardly from the dozer blade.

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