Built Another Ripper

Acfarmer89 · Oct 9, 2011

Girlfriend's Dad wanted a ripper for his hobby farm so I said I could build him one myself better than the one's sold at a local dealer. So it only had to be a single shank, and I thought I could do it in a day. Well... it turned into 3, Lol. But I finished the job! Here's a Picture of it.

super99 · Oct 9, 2011

Looks good to me. Chris

Rick Kr · Oct 9, 2011

Looks good. Any problems bending the pins when you hook into harder soil?

Mine are all bend about 20 degrees forward from the pull. Maybe your soil is lighter, we have lots and lots of clay.

Rick

Acfarmer89 · Oct 10, 2011

(quoted from post at 04:25:41 10/10/11) Looks good. Any problems bending the pins when you hook into harder soil?

Mine are all bend about 20 degrees forward from the pull. Maybe your soil is lighter, we have lots and lots of clay.

Rick

Lots of clay here in Northeast Ohio. 6 to 8 inches of topsoil, the rest clay. This one he run's 16 inches in the ground. 3pt. Hitch pins aren't bent, But the shear bolt is bent a little.

randallnMo · Oct 10, 2011

Did you build the shank too? If so, what's it made out of? Good idea. I built a 3 pt hitch with a 2-5/16 ball on top in order to move gooseneck trailers with my tractor. I could mount the ripper on the underneath side just as you've done. Do you use grade 8 bolts for shear pins?

elmersooner · Oct 10, 2011

I built one kinda like it for pulling pipe in the ground, use one of those chinese finger trap type compression tubes to fit over the pipe which is attached to a bolthead behind the spike, run once without the pipe hooked up to break up the soil and the next I hook up the pipe and pull pipe for a quarter of a mile or more at a time. just dig a hole big enough where you start. so far haven't broke a single joint of pipe.

Acfarmer89 · Oct 10, 2011

(quoted from post at 17:25:01 10/10/11) Did you build the shank too? If so, what's it made out of? Good idea. I built a 3 pt hitch with a 2-5/16 ball on top in order to move gooseneck trailers with my tractor. I could mount the ripper on the underneath side just as you've done. Do you use grade 8 bolts for shear pins?

Yes I built the shank too. It's made out of a 3/4"x4" and a 3/4"x2" welded together. Length of it is 24". And no it's not "high tensile strength steel" It's just hot rolled flat stock. Here in the pic is one of the one's I made for my ripper. Its 1" thick and 7" wide by 30" long. But it's made the same way as the other one. As for the two bolt's in the shank, I used a Grade 8 3/4" bolt in the rear and the front is a 5/8" Grade 5 Bolt.

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