Here is the latest excuse for delayed progress. Road work, vehicle maintenance, helping neighbors stuck in the mud, rain, burning tree limbs collected last year.
Ok I am cutting some steel to make the three ripper teeth. I am using cutting edge stock to make them. I have a loader/scraper box tractor that I restoed a few years ago shown on this site. I wanted to work on the loader bucket and remove a 3/4” thick large cutting edge and a curved cutting edge from the bucket. That derelict setup made it so the tractor was trying to push a 1.5” surface into whatever one was scooping. It’s only a 10,000 pound tractor. So I am using a portion of the 3/4” material for the extended cutting portion of the tooth and some 1/2” material from another cutting edge I had for the sides. I welded a new cutting edge on the little loader bucket and while I am there I am making a tooth attachment for it. Got rained out again yesterday.