Im not a welder. I do some fabrication on cars, have made chassis for hotrods, rebuilt and done restos on classics, making bits and pieces, I can MIG weld and thats what I am most experienced with, done a little MMA in the past too and my TIG is decent enough but only ever done small bits with that like exhausts, flanges, custom oil fittings, odds and sods like that.

So. Digger bucket. How would you approach this?

Im thinking cut the cracks out a bit, preheat the shit out of it and then weld really hot with some 0.8mm on my MIG.

Any thoughts or advice before I have at it with the fizzy stick?

I have some 6013 3.2mm sticks somewhere too.