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Longer-Lasting Surface & Underground Buckets

Our experts at North Queensland Hardfacing (NQHF) design bucket wear packages to suit each individual customer or business throughout Burdekin, Mackay, Mount Isa and the Hunter Valley. From surface to underground loader buckets, our team offer hardfacing solutions and wear packages to increase the lifespan of your equipment.


Our bucket wear services include:


  • Supplying & installing replacement kits
  • Fully rebuilding worn out buckets
  • Hardfacing for surface, underground mining or small quarrying buckets

Using a combination of high-quality products such as tungsten carbide hardfacing, Hardox steel and other chromium products and plates, our experienced staff are able to rebuild and fully design reinforced buckets.

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Surface Loader Buckets

Using tungsten carbide hardfacing is proven to:



  • Dramatically increase component wear life
  • Dramatically increase overall bucket life – we have 988H buckets with 30 thousand hours between rebuilds in hard rock operations
  • Reduce downtime & running costs
  • Minimise fitter & boilermaker time
  • Reduce risk of injury with fewer change outs


Parts include:


  • Cutting edges
  • Shin guards
  • Heel pads
  • Wear plates