home made dirt ripper

[FredH]

This is the one I Built / Converted from a old tandem disk , that had been converted into a single gang disk before I reconverted it into it's current use .



Not nearly as nice as yours , that is the down side of utilizing or converting something , your stuck with the current design . It works very well . I can pull 8 Shanks , then move them over into next slot and pull 7 shanks with tires in same tracks and basically have ripped down 8" to 12" for the entire width . Our property is sloped pretty dramatically , so usually only go side hill or downhill . Pulling it behind my TC - 30 . I have only been using it along fence lines before I disk fire breaks for the summer , and with several places being only able to squeeze the tractor between the fence and tree's , it is nice to make 1 pass , move shanks and make 2'nd pass thus ripping entire area .

Super nice build !! :thumbsup:

Fred H

 

[graydog111]

I figured my tractor is so light and small it would just stop the tractor if I hit a root or something to big to pull just like it does with rippers in box blade, may really surprise me the first time I hit something. It has space for 4 rippers and I have 6 s tines for it my tractor may not even be able to pull it

You can always take off 2 shanks if necessary. I had a Big Ox with one 3 foot shank behind a JD 4450. I needed to bury a 1" PVC schedule 40 pipe about 100 yards to a barn. I welded a 4" piece of pipe on rear of shank and pinned the pipe. I then pulled the pipe 3 foot deep all the way in about 5 minutes. That was my first and only attempt and it worked great.