72" Piranha Tooth Bar Install and Review!

[rocketfish]

It's up to you, but I vote PTB, it'll open up a world you never realized was there. A land filled with beautiful women driving trucks, tractors and motorcycles. Money trees with pots of gold under every other one............ummm yeah, get the PTB.

We'll shoot.... If that's the case I'll take two!!!!!!!

 

[TNhobbyfarmer]

A couple of months ago I ordered a 6' piranha tooth bar. It came very quickly. The service was great.

I just got around to installing it. I lined up and drilled a couple of pilot holes. Rut roh, the holes are very close to the reinforcement bar weld. So close in fact that I would have to grind on the weld and reinforcement bar just to get the bolt head flat. Not a problem I thought. Out comes the 4.5" angle grinder and new grinding wheel. Wow is that steel tough! So tough in fact that I have about given up and am thinking about contacting BXPanded and seeing if they will accept a return.

Question for you guys; is there an easier way to grind on the reinforcement bar. What tool would be best suited for that job? I want to keep the to Piranha, but I'm kinda stumped. Suggestions/ ideas welcomed.

 

[PapaPerk]

A couple of months ago I ordered a 6' piranha tooth bar. It came very quickly. The service was great.

I just got around to installing it. I lined up and drilled a couple of pilot holes. Rut roh, the holes are very close to the reinforcement bar weld. So close in fact that I would have to grind on the weld and reinforcement bar just to get the bolt head flat. Not a problem I thought. Out comes the 4.5" angle grinder and new grinding wheel. Wow is that steel tough! So tough in fact that I have about given up and am thinking about contacting BXPanded and seeing if they will accept a return.

Question for you guys; is there an easier way to grind on the reinforcement bar. What tool would be best suited for that job? I want to keep the to Piranha, but I'm kinda stumped. Suggestions/ ideas welcomed.

If you post some pics of your problem I'll offer some solution on how to fix. (0:

 

[Raised on a Deere]

A couple of months ago I ordered a 6' piranha tooth bar. It came very quickly. The service was great.

I just got around to installing it. I lined up and drilled a couple of pilot holes. Rut roh, the holes are very close to the reinforcement bar weld. So close in fact that I would have to grind on the weld and reinforcement bar just to get the bolt head flat. Not a problem I thought. Out comes the 4.5" angle grinder and new grinding wheel. Wow is that steel tough! So tough in fact that I have about given up and am thinking about contacting BXPanded and seeing if they will accept a return.

Question for you guys; is there an easier way to grind on the reinforcement bar. What tool would be best suited for that job? I want to keep the to Piranha, but I'm kinda stumped. Suggestions/ ideas welcomed.

I ran into the same thing, the bolt hole came out slightly into the reinforci g bar. I put the bolts through ant tightened pulling the bolt cockeyed and went to work thinking i would grind off flat later. The bar makes an amazing difference. I have abused it on rocks using breakout force to lift slabs free, I have dug stumps ans roots on big trees, and all day digging for bldg site prep and the bolts have not moved at all. Who cares if they are crooked? I dont anymore. This thing made a bulldozer out of my tractor. I can fill the bucket with dirt on every push as long as the clay is not dry.

 

[Happy Gilmore]

I think a pic will definitely help

 

[MinnesotaEric]

As an old mechanic, I bolted mine in from the outside because the outside takes the abuse. I haven't used my bucket very much, but I did make a video.

 

[jeff9366]

I just got around to installing it. I lined up and drilled a couple of pilot holes. The holes are very close to the reinforcement bar weld, so close that I would have to grind on the weld and reinforcement bar to get the bolt head flat.

Some reason you cannot use the grinder to grind "flats" on 1-2-3 washers, to give yourself clearance for the bolt head? Washers come in almost infinite outside diameters.

If washers will not fit, what about an appropriate size steel spacer? My Ace Hardware has lots of steel spacers in inventory, starting at 3/8" length.

 

[davrow]

Mine is half on / half off the reinforcement also. Luckier than Raised on a Deere, mine did not go cockeyed when tightening. The bolts are very strong, but really, they are just there to prevent accidents. When you push against stuff it is the bucket edge that takes the force... the bolts shouldn't be taking a lot of the force.

No need to grind the reinforcement. It was hard enough to drill through, grinding it never crossed my mind.

So it isn't as pretty as when installed on a BX... it will work just fine.

 

[newbury]

I just read this whole post and I think I am sold, my question is would I be better off with just a regular tooth Bolt on bar or the piranha? I don't do a lot of tree pulling more so digging, One thing is for sure the factory flat on the bucket is no good for digging.

PTB definitely.

Based on my experience and others in this thread measure your reinforcement bar to see how far back you need the PTB to fasten. My M4700 was a pain to drill and I dropped down to a 1/2" bolt. Harry wrote somewhere that he can make the PTB hole/slot further back if needed. This is not a "made in China by the thousands" attachment.

It's up to you, but I vote PTB, it'll open up a world you never realized was there. A land filled with beautiful women driving trucks, tractors and motorcycles. Money trees with pots of gold under every other one............ummm yeah, get the PTB.

I'm only finding pots of gold under every fourth money tree.

A couple of months ago I ordered a 6' piranha tooth bar. It came very quickly. The service was great.

I just got around to installing it. I lined up and drilled a couple of pilot holes. Rut roh, the holes are very close to the reinforcement bar weld. So close in fact that I would have to grind on the weld and reinforcement bar just to get the bolt head flat. Not a problem I thought. Out comes the 4.5" angle grinder and new grinding wheel. Wow is that steel tough! So tough in fact that I have about given up and am thinking about contacting BXPanded and seeing if they will accept a return.

Question for you guys; is there an easier way to grind on the reinforcement bar. What tool would be best suited for that job? I want to keep the to Piranha, but I'm kinda stumped. Suggestions/ ideas welcomed.

I ended up drilling the bar and used a drill stand w/ my Dewalt 20v drill and various cobalt bits

held on the bucket with clamps and strategically placed wood shims.


It took about 10 minutes per hole, drilling SLOWLY with various bits and lubing with chainsaw chain oil (it's sticky so it hangs around a while).

 

[PapaPerk]

Some reason you cannot use the grinder to grind "flats" on 1-2-3 washers, to give yourself clearance for the bolt head? Washers come in almost infinite outside diameters. If washers will not fit, what about an appropriate size steel spacer? My Ace Hardware has lots of steel spacers in inventory, starting at 3/8" length.

No need for washers on outside. Put nuts and lock washers on inside of bucket not on outside. See my pics.... First post of this thread. Bolt threads take much less abuse on inside of bucket in my opinion.