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Yeah I like those cutouts too, and what I would like MIE to do is merely a file change in the cutting process for the gen 2 ripper tooth. I think it will be easier, as you said, and more durable than making a protrusion.
So the question is: what direction should the cutouts you exemplified in the above yellow ripper be turned toward? Up to the hoe pins or down toward the end tip of the ripper?
The other thing that occurred to me is it is near impossible to see what you are doing with the hoe bucket/ripper, etc. when the implement is below ground or just enough out of view to really be able to know what is going on. Ideally one would have a mini-cam pointed at the point of impact near the tooth. I mention this because I can see how one could use the concave edge from tip to pins, but how it would be more difficult to see what the back side of the ripper was doing and therefore I still wonder why so many are focused on putting cutouts, attachments, or whatever on a side that is like the dark side of the moon?!