A contractor put our Side Dump Bucket on his John Deere 324 P and here's exactly what he thinks. This is real job site feedback on the Werk-Brau Side Dump Bucket, straight from the operator.
IN THIS VIDEO:
✅ Real contractor testimonial — John Deere 324 P + Werk-Brau Side Dump Bucket
✅ How the side dump performs in the field
✅ What the operator noticed compared to other buckets
✅ Who this bucket is right for — and who it isn't ---
📍 MACHINE: John Deere 324 P — Compact Track Loader
🪣 BUCKET: Werk-Brau Side Dump Bucket — Side-discharge design for confined-space loading — Compatible with all major compact track loaders — Built in the USA since 1947 ---
🏗️ ABOUT WERK-BRAU Werk-Brau designs and manufactures excavator buckets, wheel loader buckets, hydraulic thumbs, quick couplers, and specialty attachments — compatible with all major equipment brands. 📩 Need a Side Dump Bucket specced for your machine? We'll do it at no cost: werkbrau.com
The compact loader and the side dump bucket, has just been a great match up for, small site jobs, in and around foundations and around wells, manholes, septic systems. It's light and agile enough to do what the job needs done while not really disturbing too much around it.
My name is Patrick Carrier. I am an owner operator of Carrier Group, part of By Carrier. So I am an operator, but I'm out in the field every day. We do all kinds of different job sites, but our area of expertise is really in tighter subdivisions, to be honest, like open space subdivisions. When it comes to what types of material, I mean, everything. You take a look around here, you got a little bit of sand, you have rock and so on, so forth.
This allows you to dump it into an excavator. So now you can reach anything, anywhere, and you can actually get all the precision you want with it. So you need a little bit of stone, you get a little bit of stone. You need a lot, you put a lot. These side dump buckets are awesome. We do own multiple buckets like this. We use them on every house for sure. What I've noticed with Werk-Brau is the angle that you're working with. The biggest challenge that I've always seen with side dumps is that you're wasting material and materials are very expensive, every time you go to side dump, you're leaving a little pile. And those little wheelbarrow sized piles, they add up.
With this bucket, the way the cutting edge and the rear of the bucket level out, the chute being, I believe it seems like it's a little deeper. It really allows you to get that material in the bucket of the excavator, as efficiently as possible.
There are a lot of situations where you might broadside a trench and you're one person and you can actually bounce the bucket pretty well, and you can actually put a little bit of material as well. You have quite a bit of control side dumping directly into a trench.
By having a side dump like this, you're dumping it into an excavator and now the excavator itself can actually do a lot more work without the labor being so close, right. I think that's probably one of the things that it did best in terms of safety.
I would absolutely recommend this attachment to other operators. I think it makes your life easier in so many ways. And you need options. You know, labor is the most expensive thing probably the hardest. If you have something like this, you can cut a lot of labor out of a lot of situations.
There's not much I would change. I like the angles that that it came with, you know, and it just really seems to be dialed in perfectly in terms of, the cutting edge and the back of the bucket. So again, you're not wasting material. It seems to be a great design.