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DigNRipTM Bucket for Severe Digging Operations!
Designed
to handle the more severe frost and rock removal jobs, the Leading Edge
Attachments, Inc.’s DigNRip Bucket can be used for a wide range of
tough material applications such as excavating frozen ground, coral,
sandstone, limestone, shale and caliche. This type of unique design has
demonstrated that it can dig several times faster than using a single
pointed ripper tooth and a bucket. Under severe digging conditions the
performance exceeds other designs of frost or rock buckets. The DigNRip
bucket is available for all backhoes and excavators from the 11,000
lb. to 220,000 lb. excavator
class.
How Leading Edge Attachment,
Inc.’s DigNRipTM bucket works:
The LEA
DigNRip bucket functions similarly to that of a trencher except while
the back of the bucket is ripping the front of the bucket is scooping
loosened material. You are doing two functions at once, ripping
and digging!
The ripper teeth in the
rear fractures the substrate in sequential order. No two ripper teeth
align with each other, so that the maximum breakout force is applied
sequentially to each tooth. The castle top shape grooves cut by the
front ripper teeth facilitates the fracturing process of the rear
teeth. The rolling of the bucket process, by extending the bucket
cylinder, always provides the
full breakout force so that the substrate is ripped out by the lifting
action of each tooth. The result is a relatively flat trench bottom due
to the fact that the ripper tooth tips all lie on a constant radius
with a center of rotation that is close to the tractor loader backhoe
or hydraulic excavator “dipper stick” bucket pivot. The DigNRip bucket
will function for any application or material that a single pointed
ripper tooth can be
used for.
DigNRip Bucket Operating
Procedure:
With the stick
in the near vertical position, use a combination of bucket and crowd
cylinder functions while providing boom cylinder down pressure. The
bucket cylinder action provides the greatest force. Since no two teeth
are in alignment, when the bucket is rolled, each tooth engages
separately so that each tooth fractures the groove cut by the preceding
tooth. Roll the bucket completely so that all teeth have engaged the
material. The last tooth can also be used as a pick for stubborn spots.
Below is
DigNRip Bucket with ESCO teeth:
Below is a DigNRip Bucket backside with Hensley
teeth:
Below is a DigNRip Bucket for a Volvo S3
coupler:
All Multi-Ripper
Products are now also available with MTG Teeth and Adapters.
