Rear blade ripper teeth?

[DaveNay]

Is there any reason I couldn't add 3 or 4 ripper teeth to my rear blade? Obviously nowhere near as efficient as a box blade, but a bunch of 1/4" x 1 1/2" bar stock is a whole heck of a lot cheaper than a new box blade. My main use that I need ripper teeth for is to loosen and level my gravel drive, the straight blade is not enough to do the job by itself.

Dave

 

[GuglioLS]

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Only if you don't have the skill or know how. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

The 1/4" X1-1/2" will wear out very fast. Take a trip to the junk yard & get some leaf spring steel leaf off some old car. That stuff is very hard. If you are lucky the curve of the leaf spring will closely match the curve of your rear blade. It does not weld very good and cannot be cut with a saw but you can punch a hole in it and or cut it with your torch and bolt it on to some existing holes in the blade.

Post pictures when completed.