IslandTractor
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- Joined
- Sep 15, 2005
- Messages
- 17,101
- Location
- Prudence Island, RI
- Tractor
- 2007 Kioti DK40se HST, Woods BH
I welded on a piece of AR400 to my ripper which is a very abrasion resistant steel. It won't hardly cut with a grinder. If i had it to do over again i'd try putting the cutting teeth on the inside instead of the outside. The 1" thick plate was a bit too wide for my hoe but would be probably about right for yours. When I curl it under a root with the boom extended I can pull the front wheels off of the ground. The limitation is not curl force, but lifting in the boom and crowding in the stick. I want to make a quick attach for my bucket and the ripper because the ripper is hard to get on and off. It's much heavier than the bucket. I found that overall it's best to use the ripper in conjunction with a sawzall that has a 12" pruning blade.
I like the sawzall idea. There are certainly times when the ripper has pulled up a big root when it would be faster to hop off the tractor and use a battery powered sawzall to make a quick cut rather than trying to rip a root that is flexible enough to bend rather than cut with the ripper.