Piranna tooth bar

[Bxmike]

So I got my toothbars mounted to my 2670 Saturday. Pretty easy install. 70 degree day in upstate ny had to play a little . Nice thaw, soupy drive way... let's see what the tooth bar will do.
Well it did great scarred up the length of the drive way .... back blade a little. Yup this is fun. Hit a big patch of frozen rock, ripped a hole the size of a basketball .... oops. Putter around some more and it looks like a washboard.
About that time the wife drives up .. and gives me the what the heck are you doing look . I calmly tell her I will fix it. 2 hrs later I have almost better than when I started.
My driveway is only 200 feet long. Surfaced with limestone crush and run. I have found that it's only 4 to 5 inches thick. Looks like later in the spring I will have to add some.
Tooth bar is great ... bx with fel has enough power to get me in trouble ... boy have I got some learning to do lol.

 

[JustJeff]

I used mine for the first time today as well. Just puttering around in the yard. We have some big "lumps" of dirt that were left from when I had a guy lay asphalt under my carport. He dug the dirt out for the asphalt and then just dumped the skidsteer buckets of dirt into the middle of my lawn. They've been there for about two years now, so they are had as hell. I couldn't budge them with just the bucket. I put the tooth bar on a couple of days ago and it dug into those piles of dirt no problem. I leveled a few of them out. Didn't do too much, because I really shouldn't have even been on the lawn today. Still too soft. It was fun playing and seeing what these tooth bars are capable of though. They work SO much better than just the cutting edge of the bucket.

 

[85Hokie]

You guys will find that on a "good" gravel driveway - the back dragging will be very effective - because the toothbar's thickness on the bottom - it will knock the high spots down and the bucket if laid flat will make it look like freshly laid gravel.
Even the crown of a driveway can be knocked back via back dragging - using the PTB will get you into a mess if you get carried away when going forward BTDT!

AS for cutting soil or getting dirt from a pile - you will find it to be exceptional, especially if you wiggle the bucket and allow the TB to cut into the pile.

 

[Bxmike]

Ok what kind of trouble have you gotten into ?

 

[Josef]

where is the best pace to get 1.

 

[D2Cat]

Of course at the Piranha store. http://bxpanded.com/piranha-toothbar

 

[sawmill]

I ordered mine last night.

 

[Creature Meadow]

Here is mine, used for first time digging Saturday.

Was transplanting grape vines that had large root systems. Took the bucket rotated so teeth were vertical touching ground and then worked joystick back and forth and watched it sink into ground. The weight of the tractor and slight movement of the bucket made quick work. The soil is a sandy loom with clay down about 3 feet.

Sure made planting the grape vines mighty easy.........

Here is a pic of the tooth bar.

 

[alansz400]

Use my mine Sunday and Monday. The boys wanted to ride dirt bikes on the track so I used it to dig up some dirt to fill in the rain ruts and back dragged with it to loosen the hard packed dirt. Crazy how fast the top layer of dirt dried off yesterday just before dark I saw dust in a few places. Sure nice to get a few hours of seat time ( Kubota and dirt bikes ) in ohio in February.

 

[mdhughes]

Creature Meadow, did you paint your PTB?

 

[JustJeff]

Yes, he painted it. The paint will be gone after five minutes of using it.

 

[Creature Meadow]

Creature Meadow, did you paint your PTB?

I did paint it, I'm a little OCD!

 

[scdeerslayer]

I kind of like the contrast of the PTB gray against the orange bucket. I didn't figure it was much worth painting something that's going to be pushed in dirt, rock, and likely scraped on concrete.

 

[procraftmike]

I used mine last Saturday. Had a batch of fresh gravel dumped on the road to our hunting land. I was able to move the high spots with the bucket and smooth it out. For smoothing, I just dipped he bucket down, put it in float and backed up. It did a pretty good job of leveling.