Tooth Bar Use Question

[Gordon Gould]

I am seriously considering putting an Iowa Farms toothbar on my bucket for digging and grapple work with logs and brush. I have a question though about it's use with stonewall sized rocks. I move a lot of them around fixing up my broken down walls.
Will the tooth bar make these jobs any easier ?
Will it take the abuse of all that pressure on one or two teeth ?
Thanks.

gg

 

[creekbend]

I have a W.R. Long Toothbar - Bolt on. I have used it to move many rocks and the teeth are very strong.

 

[xring100]

I have a Construction Attachments Extended tooth bar. I've used it to grub out rocks like what your seeing i've never broken a tooth or bent a shank. Teeth are replaceable on mine via a roll pin. i would agree with creekbend they are usually pretty strong

 

[nybirdman]

I have and use a tooth bar with a Green's Machine Thumb and it works great.Nice combo

 

[dex3361]

I have one from Iowa Farm Tools tooth bar and it still looks new after 400 hours of use.

 

[Nasty135]

Also an added benefit to the tooth bar grubbing feature it makes the bottom lip of the bucket stronger since the shanks hook over the lip and they are welded to a 1/4" or 5/16" plate which goes from edge to edge on my bucket. I always put my tooth bar on before installing my slip on forks, helps take some of the bounce out of the metal flexing.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Thanks all - That is what I hoped to hear.

Happy New Year

 

[B58Hustler]

I also have a W.R. Long toothbar and have used it to root out rocks the size you have shown in your pictures. Using the outside teeth only, allows you easily take apart a stone wall and/or "nudge" rocks into place when building a wall.

One word of caution related to grubbing out a buried rock with an outside tooth is the excessive leverage placed on the loader booms. It can torque the booms enough to pull the opposite rear wheel off the ground "real quick".

 

[Gordon Gould]

I'm a little confused. I saw W R Long lists Iowa Farms as a supplier of their toothbar so I thought they were the same thing. But looking at the details specs I see they are different. Iowa Farms has a 1 1/8" shank, WR Long is 1" ( up to 3500 lb type). For my 5' bucket Iowa has 6 teeth and Long 7 teeth.
Is there any difference between the two I should consider beside the number of teeth.

 

[B58Hustler]

I also ordered from IFE 3 years ago. At the time, Long only showed 2 models of Tooth bars and now I see they have 4. Based on my shank thickness (1 inch) it looks like that model is now called TB. That bar has shown all the strength I need. It is a 7 tooth bar and I would not order a 6 tooth bar. It uses a "21 F" replacement tooth from Long. I would call IFE to find out what's the story with 6 vs 7 tooth bars (is it another manufacturer maybe). At one time Everything Attachments used to sell Long stuff.