My ice solution

[daTeacha]

A couple of guys asked about the teeth I put on my Kubota B7100 with 1630 FEL to chew up ice on my hilly gravel drive. Here's a pic or two.

The size is really unimportant, just build or have built to fit your bucket. The one in the pics is 3' wide, the teeth are 15" long and protrude 10" from the cutting edge. It would work on ice with a lot less protrusion, but then it wouldn't be as good for other work like lifting logs or picking up used hay/manure.

I think it's pretty important to have the rear bar back in the bucket proper to keep from twisting your cutting edge. I've bent a couple of the pieces of 2"channel when it hits a big rock frozen into the ground, but haven't hurt the bucket any.

 

[daTeacha]

Here it is again. The loose part goes beneath the bucket when on the tractor.

 

[daTeacha]

Here's a bottom view of the teeth attached to the bucket.

 

[beenthere]

I'd like to see the results of using this on ice in the drive. Any pics of the teeth 'in action' ?

 

[daTeacha]

Not now. We've been having May in January for a while now. Today is the first snow since the big melt just before Christmas, and it's supposed to get warm again next week.

Basically, I just about lift the front wheels with the teeth at about a 30 degree angle of attack and drive slowly forward, or set the bucket at full dump position, almost lift the front, and drive slowly backward. The weight of the front of the tractor is concentrated on the small area of the edge of the teeth, and it digs grooves or gets under the ice entirely and tears chunks out of it as I move along.

 

[DrewL]

here is my ice solution /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[VT_Kioti]

Yup, Salt will really work good IF your driveway is paved concrete or blacktop. But if you use it on an unpaved surface like gravel or dirt you just get mud and it will not freeze unless it gets really cold. Then you have to deal with frozen ruts. Us guys will unpaved driveways have to learn to deal with ice in it's hard form. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Al

 

[IslandTractor]

And here is my ice solution. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[KubotainNH]

/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif You win. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[DrewL]

good one!............here is another solution