Another Toothbar Solution

[Anonymous Poster]

R_squared,

That turned into some project and you did a wonderful job!

I wonder though, could you not have just slid the toothbar into the bucket until it could go not further? Looks like it would have pulled in pretty close and tight if you had done that.

My tooth bar is different than that one, being two pieces of flat stock welded into a vee that slipx over the cutting edge. THe teeth are welded onto that "new edge" and it is held on with only one bolt at each end...different animal I know.

I think I have seen pictures of the kind of tooth bar you have, and if I remember right it looked like those were just pushed all the way into the bucket and bolted in place.

In any case, I wish I had your metal working skills!

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Henro,

Thanks for the complement. That was the first thing I tried. If you look at picture 2 and imagine pushing the toothbar in more, the slope of the toothbar holder causes the toothbar frame to rise up off the bucket surface. There was a choice of a gap under the bucket or above the bucket. The toothbar frame was 3/4 inch thick and another 1/2 inch would have made it 1 1/4 inch high in the bucket for the dirt to pass over. The easiest solution would have been to cut off the factory knife edge, and then the toothbar would have jammed properly. I new the toothbar would be removed from time to time so I wanted to preserve the factory knife edge. Another issue was preventing the factory knife edge from wearing prematurely. The new leading edge should make the bucket last longer. I was surprised that the steel used to construct the bucket was pretty easy to drill through. I used a Unibit.

 

[Hoeman00]

Nice job but I think who ever got u the tooth bar got the wrong one.
It looks like it was made to bolt on the extra straight edge
and tooth bar.

 

[5030]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Nice job but I think who ever got u the tooth bar got the wrong one.
It looks like it was made to bolt on the extra straight edge
and tooth bar.)</font>

I believe that's an ATI bar. Nice fab job. Like I've said many times before, "If you have the proper tools and knowledge, any job can be mastered"

Daryl
Forage Services, L.P.

 

[Slippy]

When you purchased your toothbar did you buy it off the shelf or did you give the manufacture the size specifications and they were suppose to make it to fit your bucket? You certainly did an excellent job, but I just ordered a toothbar and the manufacture wanted to know specs like thickness of the bucket edge, depth, length, etc. I simply can't do the wonderful things you did.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

It was an off-the-shelf purchase for a 6 foot bucket. The instructions said that the toothbar would fit all bucket edges, but not those with a bolt-down knife edge. The Rhino HD bucket had a welded-on knife edge. I've read older posts where people were in the same boat with having a gap under their toothbar and they were not sure if it was ok or not. Some other older posts talked about whether the two hold down bolts on the sides of the bucket would be sufficient enough. Other more recent posts talked about premature bucket knife edge ware. This solution addresses all of these issues. I hope this post will help other members who are looking to purchase a toothbar, see the various geometries they can encounter. Maybe someone can come up with a better solution to accomplish the same thing. That's what it's all about!