Digging with a tilt and twist: save time and get more efficient

Sunil Newatia
Dr. Digger
Published in
3 min readJul 11, 2023

Construction job sites are consistently looking to increase efficiency and work with lesser machine movements. Tiltrotators can play a key role in the future of construction.

The tiltrotator is like a wrist that directly connects to the excavator’s arm converting your excavator to becomes an efficient tool carrier in addition to working faster and more flexible with fewer machine movements. Tiltrotators give your excavators amazing flexibility and allow excavator’s bucket or attachment to twirl 360 degrees or tilt to odd angles for excavation or implement work. Tiltrotators add amazing manoeuvrability to your excavator

There are so many advantages once operator learns how to use a tiltrotator correctly. Its ability to tilt 50 degrees right and left as well as rotating 360 degrees allows the him to work in any direction without having to reposition the excavator.

A tiltrotator-equipped excavator offers enhanced value as it enables the machine to work in tight, challenging jobsites or tackling applications that require precision and versatility such as site development, underground work, landscaping and grade control operations. Versatility and saving time are the tiltrotator’s biggest advantages.

A traditional excavator boom, arm and bucket is like using your arm and hand without a wrist. The additional degrees of freedom from tilting and rotating your bucket or attachment boosts productivity and versatility when backfilling and grading. Tiltrotators give excavator operators flexibility and accuracy, saving fuel and enhancing productivity in the process.

These flexible wrist type systems make buckets, forks, grapples and other attachments more versatile. Most common attachment is a grapple. Many operators use the grapples to pick and place pipes and poles for utility work or stack and sort wood in land clearing applications. Tiltrotators can be fitted with forks, compaction wheels, grade beams allowing operators to get a lot more done with just one machine on the jobsite.

Tiltrotators are also the answer to increasing safety in dangerous working conditions. By using tiltrotators, jobs traditionally done outside the cabin can be done from inside the cabin, removing ground workers from risk-prone roles.

Tiltrotators are known to increase efficiency by 25% to 30% depending on the type of job. On some jobs excavator plus tiltrotator can do job which would normally need two or three standard excavators if not more!

While operators generally need a week or two to get used to using a tiltrotator, but after they do, “they can’t imagine working without one. 96% of operators using Tiltrotators across the globe say that the job is more fun. And if the job is more fun, it’s easier to attract good operators.

Tiltrotators = efficiency, profitability and FUN

Bottom line however is, as long as the contractors are satisfied with buying two or three machines instead of one machine with a tiltrotator, no one would push a tiltrotator until the customer asks for it!

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Sunil Newatia
Dr. Digger

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