Which Tooth Bar should I get for digging into topsoil piles and clearing??

[Redlands Okie]

The tooth bars have points that are separated a greater distance. The points are longer. When working in compact materials this allows you to apply more pressure on fewer points and to a deeper depth.
The Piranha bars do the same thing but just to a lesser degree since the points are shorter and closer together.
Both beat the heck out of the buckets original straight edge.

 

[teg]

I have a W.R. Long tooth bar... way bigger and more stout than I needed. I'm not remotely concerned about abusing it. I also have not used a Piranha, would be nice if they had a 30 day trail period!

 

[N2DFire]

Add one more for Piranha.

Eats Virginia Red clay like it was butter. My problem (being a crappy operator) isn't being able to dig deep enough, it's digging too deep and getting too big a bite.

 

[shiner5]

I live on a slight hill and all my topsoil has migrated to the lower end of my property, the piranha bar has been great at scraping and recovering some of it. The piranha bar does not replace a sturdy tooth bar for more substantial digging, , but I'd vote for it for your purposes.

 

[shiner5]

The piranha bar also adds a fair bit of bucket capacity!

 

[PhysAssist]

I vote the Piranha tooth bar:thumbsup:

2nd'd...

Ooops- 5th'ed or more.

We have dug drainage ditches using ours, and regularly use it to dig into hardened piles [think packed/dried clay with rocks and roots in it] which are left over from when our house was built in the early 90's.

Before we got the PTB, I thought we would need to get a bigger ^HP tractor to do the work.

We have lived in the house since '94, but couldn't afford a tractor w/ FEL until 2011, and even then- until we got the PTB there was no way- FEL, shovel, roto-tiller, or what have you [except a rented mini-ex/track-hoe] to dig into and remove/regrade the spoils piles left on our land from the digging they did to make the driveway and foundation hole.

All those piles had sat and gotten packed down, and had roots grow into them over all the years in between.

The PTB cuts through the roots, and reinforces the bucket edge [although I did bend the bucket lip and PTB last year by using a spade attachment on them to try to dig a bucket-filling boulder out with it].

Then we used the mini-ex to regrade the bank of our pond, and those spoils piles sat for a year until we could get around to moving 'em, and the PTB again made it easy.

BTW, the land around our local town is so rocky, there are 4 or 5 commercial gravel quarries within 3-4 miles of our house.

 

[crfowler]

Thanks for all of the comments, this is all great info. I am leaning toward the Piranha. We do have more of a clay like soil here and I’d also be worried about the regular tooth bar’s cross beam preventing the dirt (if it’s moist and for a good part of the year it is around here!) from dumping out without some help.

 

[tiogajoe]

Have a Piranha on my 2610.....love it.

 

[prichard]

I just installed a piranha. Haven't had time to test yet. But i have to commend their service. I ordered at 5pm on a Tuesday it arrived Thursday. Install was maybe 10 minutes.

 

[wassup8687]

Have a Piranha on my 2610.....love it.

So you have a 60" bucket? If so what size Piranha did you get? Thanks