Advice on ripper modification

[ptrachte]

I was looking at the model 35 ripper that is installed on my 1010, and wondered if it could be modfied to attach a scraper to it. I was thinking i'd weld threaded studs to the frame of the ripper, and then fabricate some steel plates, with holes where the studs are. The trailing edge, and both sides of the ripper would then have bolt-on plates to form sort of a box scraper or gannon. Then i could take them off if i just wanted a ripper.

Has anybody done this? Are there any inherent problems with it?

PT

[digitup2]

I am not shure if a number 35 is a parralagram or monogram ripper but the parralagram for the G series had a box blade option in the 90s .It might be ok on a crawler loader for leveling up but as a dozer goes you could push ten times as much with the blade.Digitup.

[jdemaris]

I was looking at the model 35 ripper that is installed on my 1010, and wondered if it could be modfied to attach a scraper to it. I was thinking i'd weld threaded studs to the frame of the ripper, and then fabricate some steel plates, with holes where the studs are. The trailing edge, and both sides of the ripper would then have bolt-on plates to form sort of a box scraper or gannon. Then i could take them off if i just wanted a ripper.

Has anybody done this? Are there any inherent problems with it?

PT

I've got all kinds of stuff hooked to my 35 ripper on my 1010 crawler. Cat. 1 hookups for three-point hitch equipment and also a receiver trailer hitch tube. Comes in real handy for moving stuff around - especially with the hydraulic lift. I use the ripper more for non-ripper stuff than any actual ripping. In fact, in our hard ground here in New York, the 1010 won't even pull it with all five teeth engaged. Three teeth is usually all it will pull unless the ground is soft.

[mini kahuna]

same thing here we have used the scarifer as all kinds things,I have a ball hitch "adapter"... it is just a plate that slides down into a shank hole with a ball welded to it.
last winter needed it to pull a trailer out of a snag,worked great.
I say use your imagination back there and weld up your own attachments!!!

[ptrachte]

Thanks all. Looks like I'm on the right track. I don't plan on pushing anything with it, just scraping my 1/2 mile driveway.

PT