Swapped my bucket teeth mid-shift after a jam in Galveston, no regrets

Ngl, I always ran the same worn teeth until they snapped. Last Tuesday off Galveston, a buried cable snagged the lip and bent one tooth sideways, killed my cut for 2 hours. I had spares in the locker but figured swapping mid-job would waste more time. Finally pulled over, changed all 4 in 45 minutes, and the next pass dug twice as smooth. Anyone else carry spare teeth on the barge or do you wait for the shop?

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gray_smith671mo ago

Wait till they snap like the rest of us. Stopping mid-shift to swap teeth just means you're eating the downtime twice, once for the change and once for the catch-up. You got lucky this time, but that 45 minutes would've been better spent grinding through the clay.