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How do I benefit?
The Hi-Cap Multi-Ripper Bucket
Multi-plies Your Money!
It lets you do what you
couldn't do before!
It increases the effective size of your machine!
How does it do this?
These products rip rock up to
4 times faster than a hammer. They rip 10 times faster than a single
pointed ripper. They greatly exceed all other designs of frost rock,
or ripper buckets on the market. They rip to all depths leaving
relatively flat bottom and side walls in the trench. The staggered
shanks on an arc hit one at a time allowing the maximum breakout to
be applied to each tooth. The tooth force is about 8 times that of a standard 5
tooth bucket because the shanks are short. Also, the shanks are the
same distance from the stick pivot, so the shanks rip a relatively
flat bottom.
Why should I believe that it works?
These products have been proven over the past 13 years and have been
granted leters patents in the US and in many countries throughout
the world. These designs won several design awards. Many customers
have claimed this is the best attachment I've ever bought.
See the endorsements
Description:
1. What is a Multi-Ripper Bucket?
Designed to handle severe frost and rock removal jobs, the Leading Edge
Attachments, Inc.’s Multi-Ripper(R) Bucket is an engineering
breakthrough
that works on the same principal as the award winning Multi-Ripper!
Just like the Multi-Ripper, the Multi-Ripper Bucket can be used for a
wide range of tough material applications such as excavating frozen
ground, coral, sandstone, limestone, shale, decomposed granite and
caliche. This unique patent pending design has demonstrated that it can
dig 7 to 10 times faster than using a single pointed ripper tooth.
Under severe
digging conditions, the performance also exceeds other designs of
frost, rock, Vee-trenching, DigNRip™ Buckets, or other styles of ripper
bucket combinations 2 to 1. The Multi-Ripper Bucket is the absolute
best and
most productive ripper bucket combination available on the market! The
new Multi-Ripper Bucket is available to fit any excavator or backhoe
above 6,000 pounds.
2. How Leading Edge Attachment, Inc.’s Multi-Ripper
Bucket Works: The Multi-Ripper Bucket is similar to the
Multi-Ripper and utilizes the patented SharkTM
Technology which results in the unit functioning similarly to that
of a trencher except it
uses the hydraulic excavator rolling action to rip. The staggered
ripper teeth fracture 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 distance from the excavator stick pivot to the tooth
tips is also shorter than the standard bucket for the machine. The
shorter
distance actually multiplies the tooth tip force. The castle top shape
grooves cut by the front ripper teeth facilitates the fracturing
process
of the next swipe. The rolling of the Multi-Ripper Bucket, by extending
the bucket cylinder, always provides the full multiplied breakout force
individually on each tooth so that the substrate is ripped out by each
individual tooth lifting action. 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. Due to the leading
edges and the back-sheets, the Multi-Ripper Bucket can also scoop
material,
thus eliminating the need to switch back to a bucket for clean up. The
Multi-Ripper Bucket will function, and greatly exceed, any application,
or material, that a single pointed ripper tooth can be used for.
3. Multi-Ripper 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 while
the stick sweeps. Since no two teeth are in alignment, when the
Multi-Ripper
Bucket is rolled, each tooth engages separately so that each tooth
fractures
the groove cut by the preceding tooth. Roll the Multi-Ripper Bucket
completely as the stick is being moved so that all teeth have engaged
the material. The Multi-Ripper Bucket is to be rolled as the stick is
moved, thus
causing a very powerful, fast and effective ripping and scooping motion
that is easy on the machine and operator and is highly effective.
4. What makes this product different from
its competitors? The Multi-Ripper Bucket™ is different from
anything on the market. There is no excavator ripper bucket combination
that
has multiple shanks staggered and on an arc so that each tooth hits
individually. The closest products on the market in function, that the
Multi-Ripper Bucket will outperform or replace are other ripping bucket
designs similar to the LEA DigNRip™ Bucket, or the single pointed
ripper.
a. The Multi-Ripper Bucket is More
Productive than the Vee Trenching Bucket, the DigNRip bucket designs
or the ripper bucket combination designs, because it is more like a
ripper than a bucket! The Multi-Ripper Bucket has only three teeth that
engage one tooth at a time. There is no other bucket that engages
throughout its travel
while engaging one tooth at a time. The DigNRip style has teeth on the
corners of the bucket that engage at the same time and thus effectively
cut down on the ripping force by a factor of two! No other bucket has
this
ripping ability!
b. The Multi-Ripper Bucket greatly out produces the
single-pointed ripper because it can rip and scoop the broken material
out of the way at the same time! Not only are the forces higher and
there are more teeth to rip, but there is now a way to scoop the
material
out of the way to expose virgin material. The process of switching back
and forth from the ripper to the bucket can be time consuming in some
applications. It is obvious that the Multi-Ripper Bucket is at least
three times faster than a single pointed ripper because it has three
teeth;
however, it is actually 10 times faster because of the force
multiplication,
the multiple teeth, and its ability to scoop the material out of the
way.
The Hi-Cap Multi-Ripper Bucket Also
Multi-plies Money in the
Quarry!
The Leading Edge Attachments, Inc.
Hi-Cap “SHARC (SHanks on an ARC”) Multi-Ripper(R) Bucket
saves money for
White
Rock Silica Sand Co. Inc., a sandstone quarry of
Greenville,
Pennsylvania. The MR Bucket
increases
yield, eliminates the need for their other excavator, is easier on
their
machine, and makes them less dependant on the weather.
Before they had
the MRB, they had
to rip with a single pointed ripper with one excavator, and load with
the other.
In order to keep the flow moving, the ripping excavator would rip a
whole
portion of the sandstone quarry at a time. The single pointed ripper
would be
hard on the machine, produce a lot of sand and, if it rained before
they had a
chance to load, the sandstone would absorb moisture, which would gum-up
their crushing
plant. Since their new MR Bucket allows them to rip and scoop at the
same time,
they only need to use one excavator. It also allows them to load as
soon as the
material is ripped so the material doesn’t absorb as much moisture.
Since the
MR Bucket is designed with three shanks on an arc, the ripping motion
is smooth
and considerably easier on the machine and operator. Also, since they
are
loading as they rip, there is less sand produced from re-handling the
rock.
Another advantage of the MR Bucket is that they are able to remove the
rock as
it is being ripped.
This helps
considerably in their operation because they can see and keep a level
pit floor
to work from as they move along, so no other equipment is needed.
All of these
factors add up to a
huge savings for their business because the fuel and maintenance for a
Cat 245
machine has been eliminated (they now just keep this other machine on
hand for
emergencies), the sand yield has dropped from 15% when blasting to 5 %
with the
MR Bucket (they want to minimize the amount of sand produced), the
machine and
operator are experiencing less abuse, and they are less concerned with
the
weather effecting the operation.
Troy Adzima, Vice
President of
Lakeland Sand & Gravel, Inc. and White Rock Silica Sand Co., Inc.
says:
“We
are very happy with the performance of the Multi-Ripper Bucket. We have
tried
many different methods of mining the sandstone. We have tried blasting,
however, that increases the amount of sand produced, makes us more
dependant on
the weather, and irritates the neighbors. We have tried several
different types
of machines, one that strikes the rock and ones that have spinning sets
of
teeth, all of which either produce a lot of sand, or simply do not
produce fast
enough for our operation. Over the last few years we have been ripping
and
loading with two large excavators. Now, with the use of the
Multi-Ripper
Bucket, we are able to do the same operation with only one machine,
while being
easier on the machine and operator, and with a better rock yield. I
think that
the bucket is great for our operation and will help us continue mining
efficiently.”
The Leading Edge
Attachments,
Inc.’s “SHARC™” (SHanks on an
ARC) Multi-Ripper™ Bucket is an engineering breakthrough!
The
Multi-Ripper and Multi-Ripper Bucket can be used for a wide range of
tough
material applications such as excavating frozen ground, coral,
sandstone,
limestone, shale, decomposed granite and caliche. These unique patent
pending
designs have demonstrated that they can rip up
to 4 times faster than a
hydraulic hammer and dig
up to 10
times faster than using a single
pointed ripper tooth! The
performance exceeds all other designs of any other frost, rock or
ripper buckets.
This design is also a mining industry breakthrough for the purpose of
wall and
roof rock scaling, and open quarry mining! The Multi-Ripper is the
absolute
best and most productive ripper available on the market and the
Multi-Ripper
Bucket is the undisputed best combination ripper and bucket on the
market! The
new Multi-Ripper products are constructed with tough Swedish Hardox 400
steel and
available
to fit any excavator or backhoe above 6,000 pounds. Over the past two
years,
hundreds of these units have been sold through dealers, and directly,
to very
satisfied customers! The Multi-Ripper won Construction
Equipment magazine’s to 100 products of the Year award for 2003,
and the
Multi-Ripper Bucket development followed. Leading Edge Attachments,
Inc. is
currently licensing the product to Wedgelock LTD in
New
Zealand for manufacture and sales in
New
Zealand and
Australia.
Each Multi-Ripper
product
functions similarly to that of a trencher except it uses the hydraulic
excavator rolling action to rip. The staggered ripper teeth fracture
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
Multi-Ripper is considerably shorter thus causing the force
multiplication
effect that can be up to twice the normal breakout force of the
machine! For
example, the breakout force generated using the standard bucket on a
Cat 375 is
75,400 pounds shared across the five bucket teeth. The Multi-Ripper on
the same
machine generates 123,770 pounds of breakout force and, through one
tooth at a
time! Also, when the first tooth breaks out a chunk, the second tooth
is there
to come slamming down like a hammer ripping out the second chunk, and
then the
third tooth does the same! The castle top shape grooves cut by the
front
ripper
teeth facilitates the fracturing process of the next swipe. The rolling
of the
Multi-Ripper, by extending the bucket cylinder, always provides the
full
multiplied breakout force individually on each tooth so that the
substrate is
ripped out by each individual tooth lifting action. The result is a
relatively
flat floor 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. This method is very
productive
and will greatly extend the life of the machine and buckets.
All of these features add up to
big potential savings to a mining operation!
Please know that adding extra plates or adding hard-facing is not
necessary, and not recommended. Hard-facing can actually cause damage to
the HARDOX material by inducing tiny cracks in the material, and will
thus void our warranty. If any welding is required or desired, please
contact LEA, Inc. Engineering for the special HARDOX welding procedure.
