RIPPER Dozer D6

I would like to see some pictures if you can email me at joes13@gmail.com

What would be the price?

I assume the back ends of those smaller tractors had to be further designed and built for this kind of attachment, probably more common to find a tool bar or root rake.

Mere speculation on my part though, O.M. will probably have a catalog cut of the attachment for all we know, and finding one may be a different story.

Would be a handy thing to have on one of those, especially a multi-shank for lighter ag work and breaking up old root bound soil in areas recently cleared, though I think the larger tractors are probably best for this work, those 4bbl rippers on the 8K's I ran were amazing, some kinds of rock and 2-3 feet of frost you could tear with them.

Even on those later ones, not very often you saw them with a ripper attachment, multi shank is also nice for scarifying hard packed material when re-grading a road or it's been dry for awhile.

I'm honestly not sure how one breaks the main shank on those big ole rippers, when in rock it's a real rough ride as is, set your shank and adjust for max. depth, or what will yield to the down pressure, sometimes angling it inward toward the tractor, put er in gear and keep your hands off the steering levers. There comes a point where you have to stop, the tips start wearing or coming off, time to start drilling and blasting, been there and done that, not worth the abuse on the tractor. Shale was always more fun, that and frost, just have to keep the frost chunks away from the cut, so they don't get jammed in a scraper bowl etc. What is amazing is the depth you can sink one of those, hard solid rock, frost was a joke to these things, they really make use of power and the weight of the tractor.

Though I did finally realize that on every crew I've ever worked on, or would work on, they'll eventually hire some hot shot "knob" who will damage or break something expensive before they realize it was a bad move to hire the person. Well it took a caved in bucket on a 235-C, a borrowed machine, (the boss had a lot of connections when additional equipment was needed and were fortunate to have the 2nd 235 on site). That and a dropped water main valve, (expensive one too) was what it took to get rid of this guy. I would have honestly said, how do you cave in a 235-C bucket, (sidewall was totally collapsed), just put some idiot in the seat and watch him try and bang through hard rock, some people don't know any better, but any decent operator would have stopped, was short trench for an outlet in the retention pond we built, 17 feet of rock, one blast was 300 lbs and 12 blasting mats, the 8K would only scratch the surface. Great name for a blaster too, J.F. MINES.