centex
Gold Member
I am having some trouble getting new teeth peened on to my backhoe bucket. The metal is pretty thick and the tooth is loose enough that even when I get both sides peened to the bottom of the dished out area on the shank, the tooth is still too loose. I am doing some pretty tough work and I have lost two teeth in a week. I took the bucket off and worked on a anvil but it is kind of hard on an old guy like me to hold up a 150# buckt and still use a punch and hammer. It would be nice if there was some kind of tool (hydraulic or compound leverage) that could squeeze both sides of the tooth at the same time. With all the tooth bars out there some one must have worked this out by now.