Hi, Folks.
This is something I have never seen before, a Kelly ripper with 3 pockets - - and with shanks in the outside pockets.



Just my 0.02.

They rig up all kinds of contraptions over in them "certain" countries.

Hi, ROME K/G.
Thinking back, I did work with a Cat D9G in the Eastern Suburbs Railway Tunnels, in Sydney, Australia, in early 1973 that had a Kelly ripper with two extra pockets but they were close in on either side of the original pocket and still ripped inside the line of the inside of the tracks - NOT real handy when trying to rip hard up against the wall of a tunnel that was a WHOPPING 16' 8" wide. Luckily, it did have a cushion blade which made it a little easier to get close to the walls but still not ideal.

Just my 0.02.

Yea they were only on D9's that I knew of.

Hi, ROME K/G.
I have seen a few on D8s but only a very few, never on a D7 before. Also on A-C HD41s and on Fiat-Allis 41Bs.

Just my 0.02.

Yea Deas, I've seen them on AC's n Fat Allis too.

Hi, ROME K/G.
I still think that one of the most remarkable rippers that I have ever seen was an Australian built BHB cable ripper on a stick shift D6C. It would not get into granite, basalt or anything else seriously hard but it was at least as good, maybe better, than the hydraulic ripper on the Fiat AD12 that it was working alongside. I don't know what the secret was but it just seemed to 'suck' itself into even hard-baked, dry clays and other materials that even the hydraulic blade on the Fiat AD12 couldn't cut.

BHB made a LOTTTA stuff back in the day but that is the only BHB cable controlled ripper that I can remember ever seeing.

Just my 0.02.