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Demolition Bucket

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Demolition Bucket

Peterson's Demolition Buckets evolved from the Clam Bucket. One customer said we hadn't made it strong enough because it kept breaking welds. Buster asked exactly what he was doing with it and was told: Tearing down old brick buildings in SF by opening up the lid, setting the bucket flat, and then backing up and making a run at it. Peterson redesigned the "clam" bucket much heavier to withstand the impact and the Demolition Bucket was born.

Buster Peterson and his Special Services crew patented 5 Demolition Bucket arrangements between 1968 and 1973. In 1977, Caterpillar picked up the design of Peterson's best seller - the 977 Demo Bucket - and started marketing it on a worldwide basis through Balderson.

In the late 1970s, Buster took one of his demo buckets off a CAT 955 loader and redesigned it to fit a CAT 225 hydraulic excavator. "Buster had a vision of excavators coming into their own in demolition," said Roy Ferrari of Ferma Corp, who ended up buying that first experimental machine with a new demo bucket. By the mid-90s, Ferma had 50 CAT excavators outfitted with Peterson demolition buckets, hydraulic thumbs, shears and hammers.

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