Tooth Bar WR Long vs. FFC

[rancar]

Hi Carl....

I initially ordered a plain old heavy duty tooth bar. Cost was $316. When I also ordered the HD 72" bucket with bolt on cutting edge, the dealer then informed me that the plain old HD tooth bar won't fit. FFC makes a custom made EXTRA heavy duty tooth bar that fits HD buckets with removable cutting edges. The cost was an extra $85 or a total of $401.

Bob

 

[B7500]

I just recieved my toothbar from Carver. Long does an outstanding job of making it to order. I just hope I can drill the bucket on my B7500 easily.

 

[Carl_NH]

Thanks for the feedback - I checked the FFC site and found the page for the XHD toothbars. Now to call them. I might ask them for a $ on a set of removable pallet forks too, since they seem to build to fit and with the tooth bar and forks they need to be in sync re thickness from my view.

Carl

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

Carl,

When you call them, could you ask about pallet forks for the regular duty tooth bar over an fixed cutting edge Deere bucket and let me know what they want for those? Thanks. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

An update…… I placed an order with Carver for the tooth bar. It was a few extra $$ but I figured if it does not fit I can send it back. With FFC I had to measure the bucket and lip. The Massey dealer said if it was wrong it was not his problem, local Kubota dealer was even more $$ then Carver sooo I figure its not worth the headache!

Carver said it should ship next week, will see soon I guess.

Tom

 

[rancar]

Carl...

The boys at FFC are old farmers by trade and they do just about any kind of custom work that you may have in mind. So, it's likely they could build you whatever kind of pallet forks you have in mind. You may have to draw up a schematic with dimensions of what you want, but if they can build forks like they do these toothbars you won't be disappointed.

Bob

 

[John_Mc]

<font color=blue>I just hope I can drill the bucket on my B7500 easily.</font color=blue>

Drill a 1/8" pilot hole, then use the appropriate sized (3/4" in my case) hole saw with a bi-metal cutting edge. The teeth were pretty good sized in the hole saw I used, so I had doubts about them cutting the metal in my bucket, but it worked very well (didn't even run out the battery on my 18V cordless drill). A whole lot less work than using a standard drill bit.

Tips:
(1) cutting oil dripped on occasionally during drilling works wonders.
(2)Be prepared to file, grind, or otherwise deburr the hole (after drilling, I realized I could have helped the situation by drilling halfway through, then switching over to finish the hole from the other side... the pilot hole should keep things lined up OK)
(3) seat the tothbar by putting it on the edge, then pressing the teeth into the ground ... it does a whole lot better than trying to push it on by hand-power alone.

John Mc