Tooth bar and forks.

[hz293]

I'm getting a Markham tooth bar for my B7510HST. I'm also making portable forks made from heavy steel channel that I had. For those of you that have both a tooth bar and forks, do you take off the tooth bar or put the forks on over the tooth bar's cutting edge?

The combined thickness of the tractor cutting bar and the tooth bar's cutting edge is at least 1". I think that there is also a lip on the cutting bar that goes under the tractor's cutting bar. Does anyone know what the combined thickness of both the cutting bars and the lip is? If I use the portable forks and don't take off the tooth bar, It needs to slip over all thicknesses, then I can tighten the forks to the bucket with a bolt.

Harris

 

[MadReferee]

Clamp-on forks go over the tooth bar. The bottom edge of the fork has to extend beyond the bottom of the cutting edge. The bottom of the fork also should have a lip that fits just beyond the bottom lip of the cutting edge. Make sense? If not, then my free clamp-on fork plans will explain it in detail with pictures. PM me if you want a copy of the plans. Over 250 satisfied TBN'ers already have.