RandyinTN
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Should I add a tooth bar or teeth to the lip of the front end loader for general use around the homestead.
What say you?
What say you?
Add teeth or a tooth bar?
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ning
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I'm fond of the piranha tooth bar; it digs pretty nicely and is the edge is still pretty effective for back-dragging. I can imagine that some teeth may be better for digging in harder stuff, but I've got a backhoe if it comes to that. The PTB comes off with two bolts if needed, doesn't take much. Watch your step around the bucket edge with the PTB on it, though - it's nasty on the shins...
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The piranha tooth bar has many very good reviews. I almost purchased one a couple of years ago, but couldn't speak to anyone there, never got a phone or email reply to my questions.
I opted to get a regular tooth bar from these folks... actually bought 2 from them (for different tractors).
www.neatfarms.com
I got them both times within a week!
Tooth bars really change and increase the ability of the tractor to dig into materials....a lot! You WILL notice a difference.
It will not change the fact that it is a tractor / loader.... it not going to change it into a excavator.
I opted to get a regular tooth bar from these folks... actually bought 2 from them (for different tractors).
Neat Farms | Neat Attachments - Tooth Bar
Buy Online Tooth Bar For Loader Bucket at eezs.com
www.neatfarms.com
I got them both times within a week!
Tooth bars really change and increase the ability of the tractor to dig into materials....a lot! You WILL notice a difference.
It will not change the fact that it is a tractor / loader.... it not going to change it into a excavator.
The piranha tooth bar has many very good reviews. I almost purchased one a couple of years ago, but couldn't speak to anyone there, never got a phone or email reply to my questions.
I opted to get a regular tooth bar from these folks... actually bought 2 from them (for different tractors).
Neat Farms | Neat Attachments - Tooth Bar
Buy Online Tooth Bar For Loader Bucket at eezs.com
I got them both times within a week!
Tooth bars really change and increase the ability of the tractor to dig into materials....a lot! You WILL notice a difference.
It will not change the fact that it is a tractor / loader.... it not going to change it into a excavator.
I noticed these bolt on to the side of the bucket. Do they also bolt to the holes on the bottom of the bucket?
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I have 2 tractors with regular toothbars and one with a pirahna, They all work great but the pirahna is the best, It will also grab and tear small trees and brush out of the ground,.
ning
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I find that I can push/pull through a blackberry bramble and get a lot of the roots out with the PTB, to the point that the ratchet rake I bought for that purpose has been used exactly once in 3 years.
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Sorry - I had to laugh when I read.
Reminded me of the old joke —-“take my wife - please”!
I like my PTB for all around uses, as several stated above. One of the reasons I chose the PTB was the beef it added to the existing cutting edge of my bucket. My bucket edge was getting abused and bent, so I straightened it a bit to get the new bar on there and it's held it's shape since then.
comancheflight
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I got a gun for my wife - good trade
comancheflight
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I have had a couple of different tooth bars and I think the piranha the best all around, at least to me.
oosik
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Years ago I wanted to add a tooth bar to the bucket. Never could get a response from Piranha. I got a Rankin tooth bar. It's intended to clamp onto the bucket lip. I simply drilled thru the bucket and used 3/4" grade 8 bolts. It's not going anywhere.
Everhard
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I "made" mine - bought the teeth, 1/2 flat stock, couple bolts (one per side to hold it in place) crank up the ole stick welder and done. Real easy to take on/off, as mentioned prior digs a lot more with teeth on but some jobs you want a flat edge so nice to have both options. Most of the time the teeth stay on. Up until recently I had a thumb on my bucket as well so having the teeth made that more effective as well. (Thumb moving to a brush bucket I'm making now.)
I don't remember the prices now but certainly was cheaper to make it assuming you've got a welder handy.
E.
I don't remember the prices now but certainly was cheaper to make it assuming you've got a welder handy.
E.
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What are you digging in?
My soils are 90% small particles - sand, clay, gravel. PTB works GREAT. If I was moving boulders etc. I suspect a different type would be better.
My soils are 90% small particles - sand, clay, gravel. PTB works GREAT. If I was moving boulders etc. I suspect a different type would be better.
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They do not come with the holes across the bottom. The teeth actually 'wrap' under the cutting edge and are fairly secure. I have a 66" wide bucket and I wanted it to be really secure, so I did drill the bar and bolted it to the cutting edge.
DieselBound
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Oosik's Rankin looks similar to the Landpride (maybe it's a Rankin? bought it at my local Kubota dealer years ago) I have on my B7800. I cannot imagine anything other than something like these to do what I've done. I've literally dug in an outer tooth into huge logs and spun them around. The forces were once too much and the tooth bar let loose: it isn't bolted through, but it holds on like no-one's business; I had to beat the snot out of that bar to straighten it back out. With as abusive as I've been I am doubtful that a PTB would have survived; but, for those folks who aren't as abusive as I am I'm sure that they're great.
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I would definitely go with a tooth bar. I am not sure which one. I have a regular one bought from Bobcat. It is indestructible. It will not turn your tractor into an unstoppable digging machine.
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I have had very good luck with my Piranha. Even with my little 22-hp tractor I have dug under small trees and cut the roots off and lifted them out of the ground. Blackberry vines, gone. Honeysuckle, gone. Small trees and bushes, gone. Having praised the Piranha I have never used a tooth bar. I see them as more for digging holes. The Piranha is for cutting things off below ground level. Depends on what you want to do.
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Never found much use for the toothbar I had JD put on the 4010. Used it exactly one time. Found it intimidating to have to carefully walk around it in the garage. Was off, mostly.
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