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Excavator Bucket always undergoes the heavy loading conditions. Many times, it fails during working. Hence the life of bucket is less than the designed life span. It all happened only due to the extensive stresses, vibrations and the heavy loading conditions. Deformation and stresses induced in bucket structure must be studied well so that the life of bucket can be improved.Excavator bucket is designed for heavy duty work. Hence the sudden jerks, stresses, deformations are usually accurse during working. Due to sudden jerks and impact with rocks or tough materials, vibrations induce. These vibrations are measured in the form of natural frequency of a bucket. Continuous impact of such vibration range may affect the bucket life. And hence the cracks can be developed which leads to failure of bucket. It can be done by conducting Load test by using CAE software. Now a day's CAE softwares are more reliable and giving more approximate results. Hence the excavator bucket material is tough. However this selection is not sufficient for designed bucket life. In bucket observations, we found cracks and tear areas on buckets which failed during working. In this paper research done to improve bucket life is discussed along with step by step life journey. Important conclusions were drawn from this study.