@@frankrino I posted this video 1 month ago and added a link 1 day ago on someone’s suggestion. If it was intended to be an ad, don’t you think there would’ve been a link here since day 1? I knew these teeth would get a lot of attention and get new eyes on my channel, the Pennie’s you make from an Amazon link aren’t enough motivation to post videos, that I can assure you.
Tiger teeth, there good for like the 1st 3 hours! I was in a basalt quarry, trying to dig a track up to the top, with a 30 ton digger. Took me just under 9 months! To cut the track in cos it was such hard digging! I was going through 4 sets of these a week for 9 months at the cost $380 new Zealand, a set. 235usd. It got to the point, where I wasn't even calling them. I'd just send the parts guy at the local cat branch a photo of the blunt teeth and he'd reply. "The sales rep is on his way, with more sets" 😂😂😂😂
@@Houndinidid you even read? Homie specifically said he sent pictures to the guy at the local Cat branch. You were so excited to parrot some canned political stance about China that you couldn't even be bothered to get your facts right. Gee, now who does that possibly sound like 🤔
@@Houndini you realize Amazon is a retail site for many small business’s to sell their product right? I know you’re brainwashed into screaming CHINA at everything you don’t understand, but these teeth come from Oklahoma and are more American than the device you’re typing these comments on.
@@pizzlerot2730. You cracking me up. I’ve not heard or read that term in 50 years. The rams had pizzlerot. lol. East coast Tassie. Farm called Grindstone Bay. Old whalers and sealers had a grindstone set up in the 1800’s for their harpoons
Need these when you’re having a really bad day and you want others to be just as miserable as yours. Pissing millions of people off by killing their porn connections.
@@wesman7837if they aren’t knock offs and they are actual H&L tooth company teeth then no. You won’t. These are actually made for rock and not loose soil. I’ve used many sets of teeth over the years and these are the only ones that held up in the grout banks on vinalhaven. Some of the hardest granite in the world. It’s in the Washington monument and the library in I think Boston if I remember right. Along with a bunch of other places. This granite is so good and so hard they used to spin it on a giant lathe and make columns back in the hay day of quarrying granite. Like 80’ long columns!!
Yep, and good ones I've used typically have 2 tips per tooth only for the outside ones; middle ones will just be a single tip. Honestly I've never even seen "frost teeth" with 3 tips on the end.
@@KenworthKyle69 you might get lucky if u have a 4000lb machine being careful if u know its there but pvc shatters so easy its damn near impossible to not damage it in some way. Poly conduit on the other hand like they use for fiber is tougher and stretches and u can feel that as long as u are easy and have a small machine
Dirt guys are awesome.... at least they all say that. When they shared my pipes my sand was never deep enough. My warning tape wasn't high enough or too high Pipes should have been further from edge of trench.. 12 inches was TOOOOO CL9SE what did you mean when you said all pipes are all pipes are 30 inches to the top? "Really... you need more than a pot hole to fix electrical install?" Oh wait ..might as well give them more aggressive teeth. At least I can start my repairs sooner
Seems like they may wear quicker, but i suppose thats a fair trade off compared to time saved digging and emgine hours. Digging out west is definitely a different ball game, took me a week to transplant some bushes before i learned about digging spikes. I could only imagine how much harder the dirt is on equipment having tried digging with a shovel lol.
Yep, out here in California this is what we have. Decomposed granite all over. Those little backhoes like the ones you can rent from Home Depot, will not bust through the surface. The machines are simply too light weight and it just lifts the machine off the ground. East of Arizona maybe east of New Mexico, those small backhoes are probably great. Especially for a trench for utilities. 👍
Use your bucket more parallel to the ground to use the cutting edge to pull off material. The cutting edge isn't supposed to be 90 degrees to the ground, makes you look like a chump.
Awesome for dirt! Wish they’d make something better for solid basalt lava rock like we have here on the big island of Hawaii. The blue basalt here breaks D9 ripper shanks constantly. They won’t let us blast either:/
I used to do septic tank holes with my cousin all over this island, I’m from Ka’u, when I came back home from Alaska I couldn’t believe they outlawed blasting even in rural agg lots, if your from here you know it’s the same reason takes the state 3 years to pave a mile a road each side to the airport, rhyme’s with porruption, take care
@DenaRobb What difference does it make if he found them on Amazon? Almost every manufacturer in the world 🌎 has their business linked to Amazon. A lot of manufacturers of products especially one like this, doesn't deal with public sales and therefore you must go through a distributor and Amazon is a go to place to locate and purchase. Amazon is not a manufacturer. You also have buyer protection and warranty validation through Amazon even if the company is not legitimate.
@@ElectricBillAlbright thank you! Finally someone that gets it! People have such skewed views on things they assume EVERYTHING on Amazon is knockoff junk meanwhile almost every name brand product is available on Amazon.
Thoes are called tiger teeth...they come in either 1, 2, and aperantly 3 points...their great teeth for hard diging but dont last very long....but work great...
The first couple of days with a new set and they dig like a beast but ya once they start wearing down a bit it's like pushing knuckles through the ground.
Tiger teeth work really good when needed, but I only install them when the regular teeth won't penetrate the ground after reaching a certain depth. Once finished I swap back to the other teeth. The reasoning is the durability isn't great, but they serve a use.
Up here on our dairy farm in upstate NY we have hard soil too. It's mostly glacial granite. We prefer using standard bucket teeth, preceded by dynamite or dexpan. I'd give anything to trade places for your "hard soil".
😂 I thought that was a pretty ingenious idea 💡 the way he used the claw of a hammer. It had the right angle and a perfect surface to hit to knock them loose. 👍👍👍
@@DeadNoob451i had a hammer explode whislt hitting a drivearm...the metal piece flew like a bullet and went straight trough my knuckle😂😂, but hey if he wants to call u a karen let darwin take care of it.
FYI excavators work a lot better when you put the pointy bit of the bucket into the dirt, not try and drag it through. Its like you're using the side of a knife to cut...
@@DMAXRYNO it’s all about how much pressure you apply at certain angles with those tiger teeth the best way I found to dig with them is to already have your bucket rolled in (like it normally would be on the end of your dig stroke) and instead of pulling the bucket in roll it out and them teeth with cut thru the hardest of materials
Now, imagine trying to dig that same ditch with spade shovels and mattox!!! Three of us dug a ditch to replace a water line from the street to the house one winter! Frozen ground and red and gray clay, 50’ long, 3’ deep, and 18”-20” wide!!! It took us three days to get that ditch dug!!!
Anyone that says they bought heavy machinery parts off Amazon tells me I would never want to work with this company at all. Especially using a framing hammer.
Being bought on Amazon is NOT an indication of quality. You can buy almost literally any product, made by any company, from absolute junk, to top of the line name brand products. I don't know why people seem to think that Amazon is a branch of Harbor Freight. 🙄
I suspect that there are 2-3 weeks in the spring when the moisture content of soil is just right so that it isn't muddy but has just enough moisture to dig easily. My place in CA had a high percentage of clay in the soil. When it was wet, it was so slippery and sticky that you couldn't walk on it. When it was dry, it was as hard as a clay pot.
Gabe Brown on his YT channel recommended deep rooted cover crops among other things. My brother put many of the ideas onto practice. Worm holes and the holes left by roots allow water quickly into the ground. The neighbour's fields are like concrete to walk on, his are like a deep carpet.
@@robertparkinson2102 In areas of my yard where I was adding large numbers of shrubs, I mixed a significant amount of lime with the clay soil before also adding good soil. As copied from a gardening website... "One way of improving the texture of a clay soil is to add lime. This raises the pH of acid clay soils, making them more alkaline and in doing so it encourages clay particles to stick together in small clumps. This results in larger particles and makes the soil more friable and easier to work." Especially over a year or two, the lime added to the clay soil made it much easier to work with and it didn't become nearly as hard when the soil dried out.
Not one but two framing hammers. Congrats you just tripled your chances of fragmented metals going into your eye(old teeth hardened too). Maybe get a pin driver, ball peen hammer and rock teeth. Last a lot longer and you have less chance of taking shrapnel.
We use Teeth with just points back in late 1970s on mainline sewers. The excavator was a BE 350 We changed the teeth every day in the hardpan we dug deep diches in.😊
Ive seen 'em (on council & contractor excavators near me); neat idea. It occurs to me though that they would be aided by wetting the earth to be dug periodically (though no saturate, obviously), as it's far easier to dig than brick dry earth.
A bit of Ammonium nitrate, Diesel fuel, and a dash of Potassium nitrate. Load into 2" pvc about 24" long, stir not shaken, top with M80 and bury then light. Makes digging much easier.
For just a few little jobs here and there in areas with almost pure stuff, extremely compacted clay like this one, those seem to be an excellent solution to just get the job done. Now if you were dealing with having to dig trenches that deep in that same soil job after job after job the “right” fix would really be a heavier machine but that comes with a ton of its own headaches (and a few benefits to be far) that just running these fairly cheap teeth don’t have.
Amazon is good for something after all? How long do they last though. Maybe find a metal fabricator/welder and see if he can make a set that’ll likely last a lot longer.
You should try and weld cladding layers of 254 SMO on top of a 309 SS base layer, to bond the FE to high carbon. Those teeth will work harden and you'll never have to replace them again! May be too late for those old teeth, but worth looking up cladding in the future.
Middle school shop class taught me you should never strike 2 hammers together as they tend to shatter. I used to work with a guy who received a nice glass eye for the remainder of his life thanks to being stupid.
Around here when we are deep in stone we get a mill head which really saves widening the wall much past the trench boxes sometimes we are 30 feet in the ground
The key to harder ground is using the weight of your machine and bucket curl. I had to dig threw my clay and old river bed during the summer (dry and hard). The old backhoe I was using was struggling like you excavator, but if you work closer to the machine and primarily use bucket curl you get more leverage to break ground.
The most leverage you get is with the stick at 90° from the boom. For super hard stuff your bucket needs to work a small arc directly under the pin for the stick to the boom. If you’re bucket curling you’re really not using all of the power of the machine that you can. You didn’t mention it but you need to cut with the bucket not scratch like the guy in this video.
Why have I never seen a rich professional excavator operator have the sense to pile the dirt just far enough away from the ditch to allow for walking along the ditch and to not remove the same dirt out of the ditch 10,000 times. ? I would think that scooping the dirt one time and setting it off far enough to then work would be way more efficient. Any clues would be appreciated
Where I live osha regulation requires a minimum of 3 ft between the trench and spoils. Worst case scenario is pressure from the pile collapsing the sidewall of the trench. Many men die from this, and you only have to be buried up to your waste to die.
Esco started making a similar style tooth. I worked on the C&F side of Deere for years and Esco teeth were by far the best. I love how easy they are to change more than anything as well as the life you get out of them.
Those teeth are awesome. But will wear out quickly. Get/build a carbon-steel hardened knife-edge lip that links to all three teeth. You can grind is sharp when dull and it cuts to nearly anything without breaking or wearing out too quickly.
The shots you took were good enough. You could take an old trash bucket and grind (&/or rough-shape w/ a blow torch) teeth into it, & as they dull, just regrind. Experiment w/ different tooth designs & patterns.
You can find the teeth here: amzn.to/4amTBql
It's an Ad
@@omgfackdehell nope.
And pieces of them all over the building site 😂
@@DMAXRYNO it is an Ad, you cheeky liar! You can shorten the URL as much as you like but once you open it, Amazon clearly shows the affiliate link 🤣
@@frankrino I posted this video 1 month ago and added a link 1 day ago on someone’s suggestion. If it was intended to be an ad, don’t you think there would’ve been a link here since day 1? I knew these teeth would get a lot of attention and get new eyes on my channel, the Pennie’s you make from an Amazon link aren’t enough motivation to post videos, that I can assure you.
Tiger teeth, there good for like the 1st 3 hours! I was in a basalt quarry, trying to dig a track up to the top, with a 30 ton digger. Took me just under 9 months! To cut the track in cos it was such hard digging! I was going through 4 sets of these a week for 9 months at the cost $380 new Zealand, a set. 235usd.
It got to the point, where I wasn't even calling them. I'd just send the parts guy at the local cat branch a photo of the blunt teeth and he'd reply. "The sales rep is on his way, with more sets" 😂😂😂😂
Sounds & the design make sense. You get what you pay for. Amazon is not or should be for 1st pick unless you want China Junk.
@@Houndini I'd never buy them from Amazon. I was getting them directly from Terra cat, the caterpillar dealer in New Zealand.
@@Houndinidid you even read? Homie specifically said he sent pictures to the guy at the local Cat branch. You were so excited to parrot some canned political stance about China that you couldn't even be bothered to get your facts right. Gee, now who does that possibly sound like 🤔
@@Houndini you realize Amazon is a retail site for many small business’s to sell their product right? I know you’re brainwashed into screaming CHINA at everything you don’t understand, but these teeth come from Oklahoma and are more American than the device you’re typing these comments on.
@@pizzlerot2730. You cracking me up. I’ve not heard or read that term in 50 years. The rams had pizzlerot. lol. East coast Tassie. Farm called Grindstone Bay. Old whalers and sealers had a grindstone set up in the 1800’s for their harpoons
Those should go through AT&T fiber optics like a dream.
Underground utilities!? What are those?
That's what I was thinking...lol
Shouldn't have put it there
You guys keep them guys employed ❤❤❤
And they love you for it😊
Need these when you’re having a really bad day and you want others to be just as miserable as yours. Pissing millions of people off by killing their porn connections.
Wonder how long they'll last. For your soil type, it may not matter as it looks like they're a necessity.
Even if they save a hour they pay for them self
Yes I bet you would break them in the rocks.
@@wesman7837if they aren’t knock offs and they are actual H&L tooth company teeth then no. You won’t. These are actually made for rock and not loose soil. I’ve used many sets of teeth over the years and these are the only ones that held up in the grout banks on vinalhaven. Some of the hardest granite in the world. It’s in the Washington monument and the library in I think Boston if I remember right. Along with a bunch of other places. This granite is so good and so hard they used to spin it on a giant lathe and make columns back in the hay day of quarrying granite. Like 80’ long columns!!
Not long but at the price.. Worth it
@@Mad.Man.Marine
That's awesome. Thank you for explaining the history.
Called tiger teeth or frost teeth. If you found a set for less than 200 don't expect them to last long. Good ones run 3-350 each.
Yep, and good ones I've used typically have 2 tips per tooth only for the outside ones; middle ones will just be a single tip. Honestly I've never even seen "frost teeth" with 3 tips on the end.
Yeah, just by looking at them they look like cast iron.
Thise looks to be x156tw well at least the twin varieties, if your paying more then 35 a peice for them your getting shafted. 😊
Those are called triple tiger teeth they also have double and i believe singles. Ive had to use them a couple of times. They are sooo fkn nice!!!
The doubles are what we use now, because after wearing down they are still better than a single tooth.
Was it in Ohio?
Be warned, you won't feel pvc conduits until it's too late with these
haha with pvc u can look at it wrong and it will shatter these won't make a difference be to late either way
I’ve never seen someone who claims to be able to feel PVC with an excavator not yank that shit outta the ground.
@@KenworthKyle69 you might get lucky if u have a 4000lb machine being careful if u know its there but pvc shatters so easy its damn near impossible to not damage it in some way. Poly conduit on the other hand like they use for fiber is tougher and stretches and u can feel that as long as u are easy and have a small machine
Dirt guys are awesome.... at least they all say that.
When they shared my pipes my sand was never deep enough.
My warning tape wasn't high enough or too high
Pipes should have been further from edge of trench.. 12 inches was TOOOOO CL9SE
what did you mean when you said all pipes are all pipes are 30 inches to the top?
"Really... you need more than a pot hole to fix electrical install?"
Oh wait ..might as well give them more aggressive teeth. At least I can start my repairs sooner
Pvc is brittle?...you must have never experienced terracotta
Seems like they may wear quicker, but i suppose thats a fair trade off compared to time saved digging and emgine hours.
Digging out west is definitely a different ball game, took me a week to transplant some bushes before i learned about digging spikes. I could only imagine how much harder the dirt is on equipment having tried digging with a shovel lol.
in labor costs alone looks to pay for itself just wouldn't use in extreme rocky soil since more likely to crack them.
Yep, out here in California this is what we have. Decomposed granite all over. Those little backhoes like the ones you can rent from Home Depot, will not bust through the surface. The machines are simply too light weight and it just lifts the machine off the ground. East of Arizona maybe east of New Mexico, those small backhoes are probably great. Especially for a trench for utilities. 👍
Here's a full video demonstration of them ua-cam.com/video/gB9MW9a1Z-E/v-deo.html
Use your bucket more parallel to the ground to use the cutting edge to pull off material. The cutting edge isn't supposed to be 90 degrees to the ground, makes you look like a chump.
Exactly!!!!
Exactly!!!!
Maybe he's a two pump chump!
LMAO 😅😂😅
Cut don't scratch... 😂
Truth
When I worked at caterpillar, we made special buckets for hardened materials. Basically a can opener 😂
I'm sure you've had to build a few special buckets for us down here in Key West. Had one with extra teeth in the back of the bucket
Awesome for dirt! Wish they’d make something better for solid basalt lava rock like we have here on the big island of Hawaii. The blue basalt here breaks D9 ripper shanks constantly. They won’t let us blast either:/
Alfred Nobel invented something useful for that a few years back.
I used to work at Kohanaiki in Kona and we were blasting all the time.
I used to do septic tank holes with my cousin all over this island, I’m from Ka’u, when I came back home from Alaska I couldn’t believe they outlawed blasting even in rural agg lots, if your from here you know it’s the same reason takes the state 3 years to pave a mile a road each side to the airport, rhyme’s with porruption, take care
Just get a lazer... you mount it where the thumb, it's no problems!
These are the kind of review videos I need!!
Definitely just change to a product that's not from Amazon
Absolutely. A review of a product needs to be shown in action with a before and after of what it's replacing.
@DenaRobb What difference does it make if he found them on Amazon? Almost every manufacturer in the world 🌎 has their business linked to Amazon. A lot of manufacturers of products especially one like this, doesn't deal with public sales and therefore you must go through a distributor and Amazon is a go to place to locate and purchase. Amazon is not a manufacturer. You also have buyer protection and warranty validation through Amazon even if the company is not legitimate.
@@ElectricBillAlbright thank you! Finally someone that gets it! People have such skewed views on things they assume EVERYTHING on Amazon is knockoff junk meanwhile almost every name brand product is available on Amazon.
@@DMAXRYNOAmazon is also a bad company, if you can get from the manufacturer, better to support them directly
Man, I really could’ve used these on a job last year. It looked like the same conditions as you have. Thanks for sharing.
Thoes are called tiger teeth...they come in either 1, 2, and aperantly 3 points...their great teeth for hard diging but dont last very long....but work great...
The first couple of days with a new set and they dig like a beast but ya once they start wearing down a bit it's like pushing knuckles through the ground.
Tiger teeth work really good when needed, but I only install them when the regular teeth won't penetrate the ground after reaching a certain depth. Once finished I swap back to the other teeth. The reasoning is the durability isn't great, but they serve a use.
Used a set of those last month in Colorado. Lasted for almost a week before they were shot
Sweet! Thanks for the heads-up on these.
Up here on our dairy farm in upstate NY we have hard soil too. It's mostly glacial granite. We prefer using standard bucket teeth, preceded by dynamite or dexpan. I'd give anything to trade places for your "hard soil".
Using the claw of the hammer makes me wanna fight you so bad😂 im just glad it was a cheap hammer
I'm gonna go do it with my stiletto
😂 I thought that was a pretty ingenious idea 💡 the way he used the claw of a hammer. It had the right angle and a perfect surface to hit to knock them loose. 👍👍👍
@@Gecko88very true
@@skookumbuilds3282I just saw that also… steletto’s are not meant for that.
@@3006USMC its for whatever I use it for
Dude, get the blade down when you are digging.
You want your blade down, towards your ditch. Then raised slightly, .
Amazon is awsome for oddball stuff. I love it!
Bro just casually hitting 2 hammers together 👀😂get a cold chisel bro
OK Karen
@@Christoph-sd3zilmao you will think back to this when a piece of hardened metal is stuck in your eye.
@@Christoph-sd3ziEver seen two hardened steel surfaces break?
It’s like a grenade going off.
Nothing wrong with suggesting the right tool.
@@DeadNoob451i had a hammer explode whislt hitting a drivearm...the metal piece flew like a bullet and went straight trough my knuckle😂😂, but hey if he wants to call u a karen let darwin take care of it.
@@darrellbeets7758 exactly bro
FYI excavators work a lot better when you put the pointy bit of the bucket into the dirt, not try and drag it through. Its like you're using the side of a knife to cut...
Interested to see how they hold up, cool product
Off of Amazon most likely not long but tiger teeth are tougher than they appear
@@dawnsredemptiongaming5567they actually had good reviews. I’ll keep everyone posted.
There 100$ there worth it
@@DMAXRYNO it’s all about how much pressure you apply at certain angles with those tiger teeth the best way I found to dig with them is to already have your bucket rolled in (like it normally would be on the end of your dig stroke) and instead of pulling the bucket in roll it out and them teeth with cut thru the hardest of materials
I'd call them chicken feet.
I put those on my bucket in the winter so I can dig through 3ft of frozen ground. Really helps. The single ones work just as good and last longer
Looks like those little hands you can get to put on the tips of your fingers
Now, imagine trying to dig that same ditch with spade shovels and mattox!!!
Three of us dug a ditch to replace a water line from the street to the house one winter!
Frozen ground and red and gray clay, 50’ long, 3’ deep, and 18”-20” wide!!!
It took us three days to get that ditch dug!!!
Brother don't hit a hammer with a hammer
Everything's a nail for a hammer.... even a hammer
Great concept. But lmk how many digging hours they last.
Here's a full video demonstration of them ua-cam.com/video/gB9MW9a1Z-E/v-deo.html
Anyone that says they bought heavy machinery parts off Amazon tells me I would never want to work with this company at all. Especially using a framing hammer.
Lol these teeth are manufactured in the US, they just use amazon as their storefront
So many professional turds commenting on this video 😂
Being bought on Amazon is NOT an indication of quality. You can buy almost literally any product, made by any company, from absolute junk, to top of the line name brand products. I don't know why people seem to think that Amazon is a branch of Harbor Freight. 🙄
I suspect that there are 2-3 weeks in the spring when the moisture content of soil is just right so that it isn't muddy but has just enough moisture to dig easily. My place in CA had a high percentage of clay in the soil. When it was wet, it was so slippery and sticky that you couldn't walk on it. When it was dry, it was as hard as a clay pot.
Gabe Brown on his YT channel recommended deep rooted cover crops among other things. My brother put many of the ideas onto practice. Worm holes and the holes left by roots allow water quickly into the ground. The neighbour's fields are like concrete to walk on, his are like a deep carpet.
@@robertparkinson2102 In areas of my yard where I was adding large numbers of shrubs, I mixed a significant amount of lime with the clay soil before also adding good soil.
As copied from a gardening website... "One way of improving the texture of a clay soil is to add lime. This raises the pH of acid clay soils, making them more alkaline and in doing so it encourages clay particles to stick together in small clumps. This results in larger particles and makes the soil more friable and easier to work."
Especially over a year or two, the lime added to the clay soil made it much easier to work with and it didn't become nearly as hard when the soil dried out.
Perfect for cutting electric lines 😂 #excavationprobs
Cables be like "You really want to take us out that badly?" 😂
Never hit a hammer with a hammer
Why?
@@johnnyappleseed9254 Google it
@@johnnyappleseed9254Hitting a hardened hammer face with a hardened hammer face can break off shards of steel that can fly like shrapnel.
Not one but two framing hammers. Congrats you just tripled your chances of fragmented metals going into your eye(old teeth hardened too). Maybe get a pin driver, ball peen hammer and rock teeth. Last a lot longer and you have less chance of taking shrapnel.
All we had in the field at the time
It also helps to speed things up if you scrape untell, you have a whole bucket load, then scoop it out of the hole.
No way! New teeth dig better than old teeth? You're really onto something here 😂😂😂
Rocket science.
Pay attention! The new teeth are nothing like the old originals. Even new originals would not work as well as the tri-tipped new teeth.
Anything sharper and Poinier wears out much faster, regardless of material used.
That’s why my dog knows dig, if I need a hole in the yard never have to do much.
With a view like that I’d be okay with it taking a long time. Nice scenery
We use Teeth with just points back in late 1970s on mainline sewers. The excavator was a BE 350
We changed the teeth every day in the hardpan we dug deep diches in.😊
Satisfying as hell
Nothing beats the feeling of having the right tools for the job.
Kickass You found the Good Stuff for Work
thats a nice shovel
Ive seen 'em (on council & contractor excavators near me); neat idea.
It occurs to me though that they would be aided by wetting the earth to be dug periodically (though no saturate, obviously), as it's far easier to dig than brick dry earth.
Went out and bought them on Amazon. Can you now tell me where to get the rest of the excavator? Thanks.
Haha head on down to the bobcat dealership!
I will buy them just in case I will get an excavator one day
What rating would you give this excavator? Cost? Looks badass 😃👍🏼
I love it! I do a lot of residential jobs, so it's the right size to get into backyards. Cost was $42k
Where did this happen? Looks like a beautiful area?
Local kids playing the empty ditch thinking they found raptor claw tracks 😂
Where are you working at?
Are you digging through scoria?
OMG this is what I've been missing all my life 😂
Nice. Red harded clay is brutal.
A bit of Ammonium nitrate, Diesel fuel, and a dash of Potassium nitrate. Load into 2" pvc about 24" long, stir not shaken, top with M80 and bury then light. Makes digging much easier.
That looks like paws of perry the platypus
Make sure you got these bad boys showin when the locator comes out.
Learning better techinque will help no end, when your manual digging with a shovel, do you push the edge in or scrape along the surface?
When you dig through frost in Canada you must have these. Use them every winter.
Sweet, ordered a set, now I just need to get me an excavator 😊
Hahaha!
Can that equipment be operated above slightly over idle?
Besides the new rippers; what if you dig after a rain; should be softer ground to work with??
The rain only saturates down a little bit. It doesn't make it into this hard layer unfortunately.
I have used those! So good!
Those are fantastic !
Yup. Seen em. Texas hill country digging. Lotta granite in there too. Nasty stuff
For just a few little jobs here and there in areas with almost pure stuff, extremely compacted clay like this one, those seem to be an excellent solution to just get the job done. Now if you were dealing with having to dig trenches that deep in that same soil job after job after job the “right” fix would really be a heavier machine but that comes with a ton of its own headaches (and a few benefits to be far) that just running these fairly cheap teeth don’t have.
Hammering a hammer face with another hammer face can break off shards that can fly like shrapnel.
Hammer Smashed Face ⚒️ 🧟♂️
Amazon is good for something after all? How long do they last though. Maybe find a metal fabricator/welder and see if he can make a set that’ll likely last a lot longer.
That beat went hard
This just raises more questions;
-not a just comparison between the different teeth
-last shot the teeth look disfigured after use in compact soil.
LOVE using Tiger teeth! But I've never used the kind with three tines before.
That's really cool 😎
You should try and weld cladding layers of 254 SMO on top of a 309 SS base layer, to bond the FE to high carbon. Those teeth will work harden and you'll never have to replace them again! May be too late for those old teeth, but worth looking up cladding in the future.
If you consistently have this trouble, have you tried a ripper shank attachment
Middle school shop class taught me you should never strike 2 hammers together as they tend to shatter. I used to work with a guy who received a nice glass eye for the remainder of his life thanks to being stupid.
They looks like some pretty vicious little scarifiers
No joke i seen this video this morning and instantly thought of your grounds being crazy hard to dig through
Nice! I ordered them. Now I just need a backhoe…. And land….. and a reason to dig a trench.
But how's the feel when you grab a gas line or conduit? Seems like it would instantly pierce them
Most likely would. Don't use them around utilities
I work for a gas utility and the thought of these in the hands of some of the “amateur” excavators makes me dream of all the OT I’ll be getting.
Around here when we are deep in stone we get a mill head which really saves widening the wall much past the trench boxes sometimes we are 30 feet in the ground
Is that ground Dry Clay?
Until you soak a little water on it, almost nothing can move that stuff.
I ripper attachment on a quick hitch works good too.
Love your vid.. But you should have your blade down when digging
The key to harder ground is using the weight of your machine and bucket curl. I had to dig threw my clay and old river bed during the summer (dry and hard). The old backhoe I was using was struggling like you excavator, but if you work closer to the machine and primarily use bucket curl you get more leverage to break ground.
The most leverage you get is with the stick at 90° from the boom. For super hard stuff your bucket needs to work a small arc directly under the pin for the stick to the boom. If you’re bucket curling you’re really not using all of the power of the machine that you can. You didn’t mention it but you need to cut with the bucket not scratch like the guy in this video.
Why have I never seen a rich professional excavator operator have the sense to pile the dirt just far enough away from the ditch to allow for walking along the ditch and to not remove the same dirt out of the ditch 10,000 times. ? I would think that scooping the dirt one time and setting it off far enough to then work would be way more efficient. Any clues would be appreciated
Where I live osha regulation requires a minimum of 3 ft between the trench and spoils. Worst case scenario is pressure from the pile collapsing the sidewall of the trench. Many men die from this, and you only have to be buried up to your waste to die.
Esco started making a similar style tooth. I worked on the C&F side of Deere for years and Esco teeth were by far the best. I love how easy they are to change more than anything as well as the life you get out of them.
Put the blade behind you and down on the ground and that will give you lots more digging power as you use the weight of the machine
They look polished after been use lmao, I love that💛
That was beautiful...
Thanks! 👍🏽
My yard is all shale after about 12”-18” (30-44cm) down. I wonder how well these would work for that.
2ft setback as good practice?
Those teeth are awesome. But will wear out quickly.
Get/build a carbon-steel hardened knife-edge lip that links to all three teeth.
You can grind is sharp when dull and it cuts to nearly anything without breaking or wearing out too quickly.
I've only heard them called "frost teeth"
I've dug in this type of soil and wow is it frustrating. About the only thing good is the trench is usually more stable to resist collapse.
Don't apologize. Your working
Yep those would about five minutes in the glacial till around here. Getting the right tool for the soil conditons makes the job easier.
The shots you took were good enough. You could take an old trash bucket and grind
(&/or rough-shape w/ a blow torch)
teeth into it, & as they dull, just regrind. Experiment w/ different tooth designs & patterns.
So it's used to loosen up though soil?
Helps cut through the dirt easier while digging