Backhoe Frost Point/Ripper Tooth

[rswyan]

When I cut my plate for the ram face on the logsplitter I'm building it was out of an odd shaped piece of scrap 1" steel plate that I had scavenged.

The plate had had several large round holes (6") cut in it among others and a long, narrow piece was left on one side, in addition to the large area on the end. I wound up with a bunch of odds and ends left after I got the ram face plate cut out. Attached are two of the pieces.

 

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After a bit of contemplation I decided that these two pieces oughta work for building a frost point/ ripper tooth for the backhoe.

 

[rswyan]

Since the pieces weren't really as wide as I would have liked and since I wanted to put a knife edge on the front side and I didn't want to grind out a edge in the existing steel, I decided to build up the front edge with weld.

Attached is an image of the two pieces after some build up on the edges.

 

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Another angle.

 

[rswyan]

More images to follow as soon as my camera battery recharges - but I'm now at a point of decision - I've almost got the build-up done on the cutting edge and I have to decide whether or not to put a replacable tooth from Fabco or the likes on - or just build up the end and grind the tip to a point.

Cast your vote - tooth or toothless ?

 

[rswyan]

Tooth pieces welded together, more edge build-up, and ground down some.

 

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Another angle

 

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Another piece of scrap plate - 3/4" x 4 3/4" x 10" - this will be the plate to mount the tooth and mounting ears for the pins on.

 

[rswyan]

Took some 3/8" x 3" angle and cut four 3" long pieces. Welded some 3/8" plate to those and drilled a 1" hole in each one for the pins using a bi-metal holesaw.

 

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This is mockup of the mounting with the pins in the ears before welding it.