Is there a difference in quality of bucket teeth? Comparing forged to forged and cast to cast. When I search there is such a wide variation in price. My bucket takes a Cat J200 class side pin tooth. An example would be the U. Looking for the best value for my money?
I bought the tiger tooth version from a CAT dealership. $100 for 4 teeth with pins and retainers. Been working hard for 3 years.
I don't know if they are any different than the ones you see on eBay.
I bought the tiger tooth version from a CAT dealership. $100 for 4 teeth with pins and retainers. Been working hard for 3 years.
I don't know if they are any different than the ones you see on eBay.
That is amazing you have 3 years on the same teeth. My guess is that you have no rock. I have to battle granite rocks and sandy gravel . 30 hours of digging and my teeth are severely worn.
Singles. I think they make a world of difference. Especially for digging and tearing through roots. Seems to me like the doubles wouldn't do as good but I've never tried them.
Here is a set on eBay for $40 + $15 shipping. They actually refer to them as "rock" teeth so they may be just what you need. I've had such good results from the factory teeth I bought I'm not sure if it's worth it to try and save money on the eBay teeth. They may be the exact same quality too so ????
Thanks for the info. I saw those on ebay and question the quality as do you. I also read the Casoki blog. Great info. The teeth they sell are also made in China. I wish someone conducted a test to see if there is an actual difference. There are a lot of claims but no data to support the quality of different teeth. Even my local John Deere dealer bucket teeth are made in China.
Singles. I think they make a world of difference. Especially for digging and tearing through roots. Seems to me like the doubles wouldn't do as good but I've never tried them.
Here is a set on eBay for $40 + $15 shipping. They actually refer to them as "rock" teeth so they may be just what you need. I've had such good results from the factory teeth I bought I'm not sure if it's worth it to try and save money on the eBay teeth. They may be the exact same quality too so ????
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Those are some sharp looking teeth.
So the LA340’s QA bucket already has holes made into the edge of the bucket for an easy bolt-on cutting edge. Does anybody know if a company makes a tooth-bar that can use the holes that the bolt on cutting edge would use?
I have been looking around but haven’t found anyone who makes a toothbar that mounts like that, all of the toothbars require drilling two holes further up inside the bucket. (I have no issues doing that if I had to) but was curious if anyone has made a toothbar that can be mounted by simply using the existing Holes for the bolt on cutting edge for THIS particular bucket?
To me it just makes way more sense and I feel more people would be willing buying it knowing they can use the existing holes in thir QA-bucket to mount their toothbar vs drilling holes that may not even be nessessarry.
Thanks guys.
Buy the piranha and drill the 2 holes, it's a monster. You won't be sorry.
I deffienlty was planning on it but just was wondering if somebody has built one to specifically mount to the cutting edge of the LA340 bucket but I really don’t think anyone does.. surprising to me tho that nobody has done this.
So when buying the piranha tooth bar for my QA bucket which toothbar should I select? Should I go by the actual inside size of my bucket or do I just select “for bx series”?
The issue i have with their toothbar is I don’t know how well it will fit on my new style QA-bucket because since my bucket edge is made to have a bolt on bucket edge the bucket edge is thinner (I believe) and the front edge of the bucket has holes in it and is shaped slightly different than all the older bx buckets were..
I just don’t want to spend 250+ on this toothbar if it’s not going to be an exact/very good fit..
I might have to shoot BXpanded an and ask but this was one of the reasons I wanted to make this thread and ask about a QA-bucket specific toothbar to see if anybody knew of another toothbar or manufacturer who makes one specific for the LA340 buckets.
Thanks for the info man, I have heard nothing but amazing things about the piranha toothbar and am exited to eventually get one.
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