Piranha tooth bar!!!

[dragoneggs]

Well I have been abusing the Piranha tooth bar for about 20 hours of scraping/lowering rocky soil, digging out boulders up to basketball size, moved most of my 10 yard pile of gravel and it looks new. In fact the 3/4 crushed does a decent job of cleaning up the teeth after digging in the dirt! If I actually wear this out I will be 1) probably an old man, 2) ready for a tractor with a handicap lift, or 3) dead.

Love to see a pic of a worn out Piranha. I am sure it can be done but prove it.

 

[J F]

:laughing:

 

[Maestro71]

How deep are you able to dig? If im not mistaken the Manual says only four inches has anyone been able to dig deeper than that?

 

[dragoneggs]

How deep are you able to dig? If im not mistaken the Manual says only four inches has anyone been able to dig deeper than that?

I don't remember the manual saying 4in but if you are talking about how deep in one pass, that will depend on your particular soil, machine, etc. I just finished leveling out an area behind my garage and took the high area and worked it down about 12in. I am also preparing a site for a 4ft retaining wall. I took down the grade a good 8 to 10in. Scraping with the teeth angled down and scooping in multiple passes. Worked great. The toothbar also performed great at dislodging small boulders up to basketball size along the way!

 

[Maestro71]

That's actually what I need to do is dig for a retaing wall. How is it in clay? I would like to dig about 20' at least a foot deep or more. I've put off getting bucket teeth because I didn't want to drill holes in my bucket.

 

[whistlepig]

This is one of the reasons I check the personal profile when a not regular (guess that would be an irregular) posts here and especially if it has a bit of a negative undertone or dissing a particular brand or piece of equipment. I myself believe an active participant will give some identifying info to give a degree of credibility except for the paranoid and they won't but may actually know some stuff which will usually be in the content of their post.
Anyway there was a poster here in the past that would give answers that would be pages long and like what an engineer would write for a professional article. He sent me a PM one time and told of his dream/aspiration to one day buy a tractor when his Wheel Horse mower died. So, I'm not saying a person that doesn't own a particular tractor or piece of equipment doesn't know anything about it but I want to know if what the person posting is from "hear say", read about, thinks, or knows from actual experience with the actual model if it's about a specific piece of equipment not how to do a specific task and even with the specific task I'd like to know if the person has actually done it themselves.
I've never owned any brand tractor but a Kubota. I never comment as to the performance or ability of any tractor brand except Kubota. Just my deal and if someone else is commenting about a specific model of Kubota (or any other Brand/model) then I want to know how they know other than brand bashing. I'd feel stupid giving input about a model I hadn't owned with my own experience unless I told up front where I was learning my information (brother owned, neighbor owned, had a vision, wanted to own one, grand dad owned one, saw a guy that owned one, saw a commercial on TV about it).
Read the personal profiles guys and then decide from there as to credibility and you Paranoids just fume and go on because I still know where you live.:laughing: When you hit send, it posts a copy of your SS# and address and phone number in small block letters in the upper right over your name, yes, your real name shows on mine with my Snooper program, that's right, there's a Snooper program for only $29.95 available to all that want to buy it!!!!! :laughing: :cool2:

Do you own a Piranha tooth bar?

 

[Finnster]

That's actually what I need to do is dig for a retaing wall. How is it in clay? I would like to dig about 20' at least a foot deep or more. I've put off getting bucket teeth because I didn't want to drill holes in my bucket.

Mine is great in the clay. You can dig deeper than 4 in if you do multiple passes. Idk about 20". Straight down would be tough, but cutting down gradually on a slope shouldn't be a problem. I don't think it would be the ideal tool for it tho.

 

[PhysAssist]

How deep are you able to dig? If im not mistaken the Manual says only four inches has anyone been able to dig deeper than that?

The 4" digging limit (as I understand it) is from the level the tractor is sitting at, but as you lower the grade in your work area, your tractor is sitting 4" lower each pass, therefore you can keep digging lower and lower.

When I was looking around and trying to decide which tractor to buy, I watched a video on youtube showing a small Kubota (sorry, I do not recall the model/series number) digging a hole so deep that you could have buried the tractor in it.

I just searched for it again, and turns out that the model number was unreadable, but the loader looks like an LA302.

Here is the link to the video:
Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j0_aFTA7QA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Thomas

PS: On Tractor Data I found that it was sold with the B37500/7600, which is slightly smaller than my B2320, and larger than a BX.

 

[PhysAssist]

Post deleted to make it look like I'm not taking up too much room.... :cool2:

I agree with all you say, but most often I take what people say at face value as their beliefs, and attempt to explain why I think that their ideas do not make sense given my personal experience or as proven empirically by research or other means.

As you said, by not checking profiles as frequently as I probably should, I make be at times doing the equivalent of trying to teach a pig to sing, thereby risking annoying the pig and wasting my time.

Thanks for the reminder that not all who post here are the tractor-loving, friendly helpful gentlemen that you and I are! :laughing:

For record, if you look at my profile, you will note that I am middlin paranoid (otherwise known as appropriately security conscious though per my nephew, the E-Lint officer, I am too careless :shocked: .)

But as to my tractoring credentials, I drove Farmalls, a Massey Ferguson with loader, and rarely a White Field Boss as a youth summers working on my uncles' farms.

Thomas

 

[dragoneggs]

That's actually what I need to do is dig for a retaing wall. How is it in clay? I would like to dig about 20' at least a foot deep or more. I've put off getting bucket teeth because I didn't want to drill holes in my bucket.

To be honest, I haven't used the Piranha in hard clay but definitely hard packed and rocky dirt. The moist clay I cut into was pre Piranha and I had to use my BH because the unmodded FEL would cut it. While the BH was no problem but a bit tedious for road cut in work, I believe the Piranha would have done well also assuming working on a level surface and wanting a level bottom grade. Now if it is hard dray clay in your parts of the USA... I can't answer that because I just am not familiar with soils in other regions.