Added a tooth bar

[mic214]

I installed a Piranha tooth bar from Bxpanded today. I can稚 wait to try it out on the small stumps and brushy areas around the hacienda?

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Nice! They work great. Best add on that I put on my tractor. How's your weather down there? We have been windy as all get out!

 

[dragoneggs]

You will love it! Mine is going on six years with lots of digging into rocky soil, brushing, etc and still looks great. I know my bucket edge would be trash now if I didn't install a PTB!

Now you just have to get used to those pesky teeth sticking out further than the corners of your bucket. Until then, careful around your house corners, posts, fences, etc.

 

[mic214]

Nice! They work great. Best add on that I put on my tractor. How's your weather down there? We have been windy as all get out!

I tried it out a little today and took out a few small stumps and a couple of bushes. It worked great!

As for the weather, it has been windy here too. Our winter has actually been pretty light this year as far as snow goes (Again………).

 

[jayincmh]

Wow! That's a great looking addition, and sure to be useful. Sure does make the loader more aggressive for clearing and light digging. I've got a tooth bar on my wish list.

 

[cat fever]

Looks real nice and I too have a tooth bar on my wish list. I have some dirt work/grading to do this summer so it's high on my wish list.:thumbsup:

 

[yomax4]

Very nice bar. I bought one for my tractor and it showed up and shocked me on the size of the thing. Pretty sure it weighs 75# and way larger than I was thinking. This one you have looks like what I want. Very nice.

 

[jbrumberg]

They are great for dirt work.

 

[vlcakc]

I installed a 72" Piranha TB on the loader bucket of the Case Farmall 55C CVT a couple of weeks ago. It works really well for dirt work. I tried clearing some saplings and small trees with mixed results. Some were uprooted as desired, but most were sheared off a few inches above ground level leaving the roots and short stump. I need to learn the techniques for brush clearing with the TB. I tried running the loader bucket on float with the TB tilted slightly up with so-so results. Do I need to take a bit of topsoil with the TB to uproot brush? Vic

 

[GRTkub]

My experience with the traditional style of tooth bar and the Piranha tooth bar is similar to vicakc.

On my BX25 I had a W.R.Long tooth bar. It was pretty good at uprooting brush without shearing individual trees above ground. It was also pretty good at raking backwards with the bucket tilted down.



When I sold my BX and moved up to a B2650 I bought the Piranha bar. I find it more difficult to uproot small trees and it's a bit less effective at raking. But I still really like it. It's excellent at digging and if I am trying to make space at the sides of my road I can just tilt it down a bit and push a bit of dirt with it.



If I need to clear a lot of saplings from the sides of my road I have a J.Dunn grapple. It's incredibly effective at pulling groups of saplings out of the ground.

 

[saxnbees]

I have some old 25 year old logging trails that were rutted up by a skidder before we owned the property. Dirt was pushed into the middle and outside edges of the trail by the skidder tires and now has tree roots (mostly smaller) and small trees in it. I am thinking that the PTB might be good to sever the roots and small trees allowing me to use the bucket to level the trails back up reasonably well and not be too expensive.

Does this sound like a reasonable use for the PTB?

Also, I currently have Edge Tamers on my bucket that have proven to be quite handy while moving snow. I asked BxPanded and they said the PTB could be designed to allow for the Edge Tamers to be used at the same time as the PTB. However, I am currently thinking that the PTB and the Edge Tamers might not really be best used together but separately since they are both easily removable.

What do you more experienced tractor users think?

 

[GRTkub]

I had to look up Edge Tamers to see what they are. Without any experience with them, I would say that they should be removed when using the tooth bar. I think they would prevent the tooth bar from digging in a bit - or a lot when you needed it to. Same with back dragging to level things out a little finer. I think the Edge Tamers might interfere with that too. As far as the logging trails I would give it a try. There are better tools out there for the job, but they are also more expensive. The Piranha tooth bar is one of the most cost effective additions you can make. In the end it will also save the cutting edge on your bucket too.

 

[saxnbees]

Thank you. That was my line of thinking as well. The Edge Tamers are designed to keep the bucket from digging in. With them installed, the bucket rides about 3/4 inch above the ground. For moving snow or a pile of something, that keeps the bucket from destroying the yard. But you can only level with the back edge of the bucket and you cannot easily dig below ground level. Since both the Edge Tamers and the PTB are easy and quick to install and remove, I think they may be good complementary additions that can be alternated when needed.

 

[dragoneggs]

Thank you. That was my line of thinking as well. The Edge Tamers are designed to keep the bucket from digging in. With them installed, the bucket rides about 3/4 inch above the ground. For moving snow or a pile of something, that keeps the bucket from destroying the yard. But you can only level with the back edge of the bucket and you cannot easily dig below ground level. Since both the Edge Tamers and the PTB are easy and quick to install and remove, I think they may be good complementary additions that can be alternated when needed.

I have never removed my PTB since installing it. Absolutely love it for any dirt work or digging and as bucket lip protection as well. You might find the same. I do have a QA so I can quickly swap out the bucket for some forks that are easily adjustable for width.