Eagle Claw Tooth

AGGIE00 · Nov 8, 2011

Anybody know anything about Eagle Claw Tooth? First, do you have any knowledge about their chipper tooth performance and longevity and second are they still in business? The website is unavailable and they won't answer the phone. I seem to be limited on tooth options for my magnum mulcher, so if anyone knows of another chipper tooth available I would certainly appreciate the heads up.

AGGIE00 · Nov 8, 2011

And don't say buy a Cimaf cuz even if I could get one it's not in the slow economy budget.

coastalcutter · Nov 8, 2011

AGGIE00 said:
And don't say buy a Cimaf cuz even if I could get one it's not in the slow economy budget.

Look up King Kong tools they are the only other company I can think of. I think they are charging $56 per tooth

AGGIE00 · Nov 8, 2011

coastalcutter said:
Look up King Kong tools they are the only other company I can think of. I think they are charging $56 per tooth

Tried that and they only offer the same carbide hmmer that we have been using and you are correct on the price, though that is a single side tooth. Managed to get a hold of eagle claw and will order them tomorrow at $50/tooth

ralanb · Nov 9, 2011

You will like the eagle claw tooth. I have a magnum and what i do is if im cutting a lot of oak or hickory for a week or longer, i will use all eagle claw on the head. Other than that i mix them in with the rest. Be sure to keep the balance right. You have to use factors of three to get it balanced right(3,6,9,etc). Also works well putting 15 in the center for the hardwood and the carbides are still there on the sides. This is just my opinion, hope it helps.

AGGIE00 · Nov 10, 2011

ralanb said:
You will like the eagle claw tooth. I have a magnum and what i do is if im cutting a lot of oak or hickory for a week or longer, i will use all eagle claw on the head. Other than that i mix them in with the rest. Be sure to keep the balance right. You have to use factors of three to get it balanced right(3,6,9,etc). Also works well putting 15 in the center for the hardwood and the carbides are still there on the sides. This is just my opinion, hope it helps.

Finally someone with firsthand experience. With the claw tooth what can you handle as far as oak diameter and still be efficient? I have quite a few jobs that have 4-6" post oaks and I can't compete with the hammers, but I'm hoping that with these teeth it will go faster. How many hours are you getting out of them?

ralanb · Nov 10, 2011

That size oak with EC tooth is like the carbides on a 3-5" pine. You will have no problem. They are able to be resharpened, and will last at least 20-25 hours without sharpening and out of the dirt most of the time. They will really surprise you. You do know they can be rotated like the carbides right? Its like paying $25 dollars a tooth. They will handle larger material. We used them the first set i bought, for a lot that was logged for the hardwood. The owner wanted all stumps ground level and it handled trunks 24" tall and 35-40" diamiter. it will cut your time in half and your material smaller. Hope this was informative enough. Have fun!

AGGIE00 · Nov 20, 2011

Well we got them installed and what a difference. It's like the difference between a chainsaw chain that has been in the dirt and used on concrete and a brand new chain. Took down a dead 14" post oak and carved it like butter. Took less than 30 minutes to devour the entire tree that I could previously not touch. I took the advise of running 15 in the middle and it seems to be the most efficient solution for what we do. I'm now wondering why I didn't try them a long time ago.

I bought them from Eagle Claw Tooth, but the package came from Bradco and the teeth have magnum printed on them. I'm wondering if I could have bought them from Bradco directly and gotten them cheaper.

ralanb · Nov 21, 2011

No. i tried that. I had the privilage to meet the son in law to the magnum designer. He said that the first set of eagle claw did not have a "fang look", but a planer/chiseled look. When the company was sold, they changed the look because the originals lasted "too long". Go figure right? Glad you like them. Did you pay more than $53.00 per tooth?

AGGIE00 · Nov 21, 2011

Paid $50.00/tooth plus another $2.00 for delivery. Don't quite understand the last too long philosophy. The head would be a lot more attractive with a longer lasting tooth. Cimaf has only 23 teeth I believe compared to the 45 on the magnum. A heck of a lot cheaper to replace teeth and over a little time gives a payback even with the higher price for the head.

Now just to survive this economy and get set up for when things get better.

BTW...Eagle Claw has what seems to be a good price and got my teeth to me on time, so my question earlier was only out of curiosity.

makinmulch · Nov 21, 2011

How many hours before they need replacing?

AGGIE00 · Nov 21, 2011

makinmulch said:
How many hours before they need replacing?

Don't know, but I'm only 15 hours into this set used on mostly 4-10" hardwoods. I can see a little wear at the tip of the claw, but not enough to warrant sharpening. I imagine I'll go 25hrs before sharpening.

CasCar · Nov 28, 2011

How do determine the 15? I have a head that has 8 busted teeth on it, it seems at least on my head that one of the tips on the double tip cutters will break and it looks like a real clean break like the carbide just fell off. Also on the 2 grease daily fittings how many pumps do you give it? Just wanna know if i'm over or under greasing it.

AGGIE00 · Nov 28, 2011

CasCar said:
How do determine the 15? I have a head that has 8 busted teeth on it, it seems at least on my head that one of the tips on the double tip cutters will break and it looks like a real clean break like the carbide just fell off. Also on the 2 grease daily fittings how many pumps do you give it? Just wanna know if i'm over or under greasing it.

For the 15 I just counted in 15 and replaced util there were 15 hammers left on the other side since it has 45 total. I have knocked off the carbide on a few teeth. I grease the head twice a day and usually 10 pumps per side. Don't know if it's right or wrong, but no problems yet.

CasCar · Nov 28, 2011

I been giving it 20 pumps each side a day also there is a fitting on the upper bearing housing that needs to be greased every 40hrs. Just 2-3 pumps.

CasCar · Nov 28, 2011

Who has the energy to drag an old mattress /couch box spring or whatever it was to the middle of nowhere.

AGGIE00 · Nov 28, 2011

CasCar said:
Who has the energy to drag an old mattress /couch box spring or whatever it was to the middle of nowhere.

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Just spin the heck out of it till all comes out. Been there with you name it including oilfield cable. Managed to pull fence wire in once and had to rebuild 150' of fence that really wasn't doing anything in the first place. Where's your gate? We couldn't run without the gate to spare adjacent houses, nosy onlookers and the poor surveyor staking the cut line. Plus we get a better mulch.

CasCar · Nov 28, 2011

The gate won't work on the 320 so i took it off i learned real quick not to point it at houses or the highway but i put it back on when used it on the 268B kinda got use to it off tho.