cuttin edge
Senior Member
People think, just drop the ripper and go. Did a parking lot extention for a car dealer. They couldn't spare a hoe to cut down the shale in the cut. They dropped off our old D7G and the operator had half the day to rip and shove up the material. When I landed with the grader, there was about a truck load shoved up, and the tractor was gone. I could see the marks where he drug the tooth across the sand stone in the same direction as the layers were layed out. I had no ripper on my old 730 champion, so I backed up, put the corner of the moldboard down, went against the layers, and scraped up almost 60 tandem loads of the nicest sandstone. Would have been more cost effective if buddy had known how to rip, but I got it done.I don't know. It is nice to see someone pull the ripper tooth at the right angle so it doesn't blunt the tooth.