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by Stan Disbrow » Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:52 am
Hi,
That's a scarifier, used for busting the crust on dirt roads. Many times they're called a ripper. A true ripper is one huge tooth used for ripping into the cracks in rock. A scarifier has several (usually five on these machines) smaller toothed shanks in them.
I don't see any of the toothed shanks in it, so that means it's just a big, heavy, flat bar that goes up and down with hydraulics. One could happily use that for lifting one end of a tree trunk and use it as a makeshift log arch.
Post a shot of the back of the thing. I'd like a better look at that part.
Later!
Stan
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