Patent ID: 7506462

Claim:
An excavation bucket assembly for mounting to a tractor for the removal of ground soil in response to the movement of the tractor over the ground, comprising: an excavation bucket having a ground wall with a front edge for engaging and collecting the ground soil, and an upwardly extending back wall joined to the ground wall and displaced from the front edge of the ground wall and forming with the ground wall a soil collection chamber for containing the collected soil, the excavation bucket including an opening formed in the ground wall displaced from the front edge of the ground wall, a soil gathering means movable between an up position that closes the opening and a down position extending from the opening outside of the collection chamber for forming a trench in the soil, and power means mounted to the upwardly extending back wall for moving the soil gathering means between its up and down positions, such that the ground wall of the bucket engages and moves over the ground soil and the soil gathering means is moved to its down position and scoops ground soil upwardly through the opening and forms a trench in the soil.