Green Teeth

[Lumberjack]

I am considering getting green teeth for the RG 85. We are useing the Super Tooth from Rayco. For the people that have actually used them, What do yall think? Are they worth the money?

 

[murphy4trees]

I was out of town and missed this thread... Yes the green teeth are excellent and well worth the money....
I misplaced the ph # for ordering....
Anyone have it handy???
Give me a call 804-283-3214..
or respond to this thread or email me...
Thanks,

 

[Lumberjack]

Bailey's sells them. Albeit that you can get them cheaper. There phone, for those how aint got it it: 1-800-322-4539.

You were outa town for how many months, this thread is ancient.


Carl

 

[murphy4trees]

I rented an RG-50 with green teeth for two months starting on the exact day you started this thread. I did get teh # for green teeth.. 517-458-1500... Hope that's OK with guidelines...
Went down to Va, in teh wake of Isabel and after 2 months at 2700/mnth, I bit the bullet and bought the 66 h.p. RG super 50..
Seems that its a lot faster doing teh cutting, but significantly slower moving around the yard.. Also 750 lbs heavier..
Think I might have gone with the regular RG-50 if I had to do it over again...
This one is costing me 757/month for 5 years...
Heading back to Va. tomorrow to do some more grinding...
Have you figured out how to re-tip the green teeth yet???
Thanks

 

[Lumberjack]

Retipping should be the same as regular teeth, maybe even easier. I still have yet to use them as when I posted, my father had just bought an additional 400 tips, soilder and the like. I bet retippin is a breeze, as long as you get the tip centered.

So you are sayin that the Super RG 50 is slower (ground speed) than the slow RG50? I thought that I might like the extra 16 hp, the weight wouldn't matter, but the ground speed on our RG50 is slowish. Could be that it is 5 1/2 years old, but it still runs like new.

Carl

 

[treeman82]

750 lbs is not a small chunk of change when you are moving around on an established lawn where the key is to leave no evidence that the machine went through there. Forget about after heavy rains, even under normal conditions that will make a difference if you are adding it to something that already weighs well over 1000 lbs.

 

[2ndgclimber]

Talk about slow,my rayco super jr. is so slow that i think i could literally crawl faster than it moves.Theres gotta be a way to speed them up ,just havent had the time to look into it.Anyone else ever find a way to speed up these turtles.As for green teeth,im going to set mine up with them this spring,ill let you know what i think.

 

[Lumberjack]

Originally posted by treeman82
750 lbs is not a small chunk of change when you are moving around on an established lawn where the key is to leave no evidence that the machine went through there. Forget about after heavy rains, even under normal conditions that will make a difference if you are adding it to something that already weighs well over 1000 lbs.

Uh... if it already weighs 2500, then the soil compaction wouldn't be that much greater for an extra 750. Or RG85 weighs 4500, and we don't have a problem with it.


Carl

 

[murphy4trees]

RG-50 weighs 2500
Super 50 weighs 32+0

After working 7 days/week for almost 2 months with the RG-50, I was impressed with the lack of damage to lawns etc... I've only run the super 50 a few days now.
That extra 750 does make a difference... 30% heavier with the same tires is going to show... The RG 85 must have bigger tires...
There is a trade off... after running the machine on some monster stumps I decided the extra horsepower and 4x4 and blade are worth paying the extra money.... that is at least in a post storm damage market...

 

[Lumberjack]

Originally posted by murphy4trees
.... that is at least in a post storm damage market...

Ahmen to that. My father made 80,000 in one year after a storm in Feb. He stayed in Columbus, and worked on Fri and Sat, and after work during the summer. Lot of work, but it payed for the RG85 that we got that jan 1.


Carl