Anyone use/seen the Rezloh tooth bar?

[srjones]

Hmmm...I feel a build-it-yourself project coming on. A project that involves flat steel, cutting, grinding and drilling. Then some maybe some heat treating.

 

[MikeBurr]

Yes, I have the Rezloh tooth bar on my bucket, it is really great for all my uses. I like it so much that I had it welded on. Does a fairly good job when digging and just in the last few days in breaking up the ice that covered my driveway. The ice was so hard that driving on it would leave NO tracks. But I was able to backdrag with the edge straight down and rake the ice enough to break it up. The edge also allows me to overfill the bucket when hauling dirt, pickup large tree trunks/limbs without getting off the tractor. There are a lot more things that I do that with a standard tooth bar I would not be able to do. About the only thing that a standard bar might do better would be starting holes, once the surface is broken, the rezloh works real well.
It may cost a little more than a standard toothbar, but it never needs to be taken off, adds a lot of strenght to the bucket and the extra lenght allows more jobs that can be done with the loader.
Here is a picture of my tooth bar on my old tractor, it was bolted on. When I got my new tractor, I had the tooth bar welded on. Note that it sticks out about 8 to 10 inches from the bucket edge, that little bit really makes the tooth bar more useful than any other toothbar. Also I've had the same toothbar for over 6 years now and it show very little use.

 

[MikeBurr]

Here is the picture.

 

[srjones]

Thanks for the report Mike. Does the $600 ballpark sound right? How wide is your bucket? is the bar about an inch thick?

 

[MikeBurr]

Foreget what it cost, about $400 5 or 6 years ago. Guessing that it is 3/4 to 1" thick and heavy and came in two pieces that are placed side by side. In visiting a New Holland dealer last year, I believe I saw an even better model of the bar that had longer teeth on it - would be even better at back raking dirt and snow. I'm guessing the price seems right based on rising prices and the thickness of the medal. And it is good medal, with all that I've done with mine I would think it would be really worn down, but it bearly shows any ware.
I think my bucket is 5 1/2 feet, I got the shorter heavy duty bucket so I could use the tooth bar on it. I think the normal bucket for the TC33da is 6 feet.
If you get one and use it for awhile, I think that you will be glad that the money was well spent.

 

[joes_427_vette]

Looks like a nice tool if you have the extra money to spend. For what a person would pay in freight my tooth bar is on and working. If it takes five minutes to take the two bolts off for removal in my book it is not a big deal. I saw a rubber blade for my snow plow I would like to have also. For the price of $300............ my steel one works just fine.

 

[swines]

A 63-inch wide Rezloh edge cost me $626 + shipping two months ago. Rezloh cusom made the edge to fit my John Deere 300cx heavy-duty bucket. It took Rezloh 2.5 weeks to deliver the edge after it was ordered. I sent them a detailed CAD drawing as a PDF via email. The edge fits perfectly and uses the same bolts as the standard cutting edge.

It is a quality piece of equipment and very well made. It does not have the ground breaking capability of a standard tooth bar as the faces of the teeth are flat and not pointed like on a tooth bar. However, once you get into the ground and get a hole started it works really well.

The real advantage comes if you want to use your bucket like a standard bucket as the tooth bar is flat on the bottom like a cutting edge. It really functions like a cutting edge with teeth.

Rezloh has an OEM agreement with CNH. You can buy Rezloh edges from NH, Case-IH, or Case Industrial dealers. Rezloh makes to them to fit tractor FELS, skid steers, industrial loaders, and dozers.

If you don't get an answer to your email, just call them. They seem to be really busy and I had better luck calling them.

The reason they don't put a price on their website for the cutting edge is that Rezloh has at least 200 patterns to fit different buckets.

When I said I thought there would be some commonality between equipment buckets - the person I talked with said, "So did I when I got into manufacturing these edges."

When I asked if he had a pattern for the 300cx heavy duty bucket, he said, "No - that'll be number 201."

The thickness of the edge is matched to the piece of equipment. My edge is 3/4-inch thick. Some of the edges at the Case dealer were on the order of 1.5-inches thick for the Case industrial loaders.

 

[swines]

Hmmm...I feel a build-it-yourself project coming on. A project that involves flat steel, cutting, grinding and drilling. Then some maybe some heat treating.

The Rezloh edge is made of hardened steel. The edge is precision machined (obviously with CNC equipment). The bolt holes are also machined to accomodate the square shoulder on standard cutting edge bolts, and the heads are countersunk about 1/4 inch below the bottom surface of the edge.

Duplicating the edge without machine tools would be tedious at best - and, I used to own a complete machine shop with two CNC mills, a CNC machining center, Bridgeport manual mill, and an EDM machine - the Rezloh edge is a well made product. I was duly impressed when I got mine.

A friend who's been in manufacturing for 15 years running a variety of aerospace parts for firms like Boeing, General Electric jet engines, etc. was equally as impressed.

Good luck.