How to Choose the Right GET Tips for Your Equipment

Summary: There are three main factors when choosing ground engaging tool tips for a job: strength, penetration, and wear life. Evaluating the material you’ll encounter on your job site and choosing accordingly is the best way to find the right GET tip for your equipment.

Having the right tool for the job is the difference between struggling to meet timelines, budgets, and standards and sailing through with ease and efficiency. Heavy machinery GET tips, or tool tips for ground engaging tools, are the ultimate make-or-break gear. These specialized equipment parts provide high performance under intense pressure.

GET tips can save your machines from serious wear and tear while improving productivity, fuel consumption, and maintenance costs. But only if you choose the right one. At Yancey, you can find GET options whether you have one Cat machine or a mixed-fleet. Let’s take a closer look at how to choose the right Cat GET tool tip solutions for you.

What are GET Tips?

GET tips are the teeth or edges of buckets or blades that make first contact with the ground. They are designed to be sharp, tough, and replaceable. GET tips, or bucket teeth, are primarily used on excavator buckets and wheel loaders to enhance their strength and effectiveness.

As the tips wear down (because they’ve been acting as damage absorbers), they can be easily replaced to maintain the strength and effectiveness of your machine and its components. They come in a wide variety of shapes and specialties and can—and should—be customized to your job site.

How to Choose the Right GET Tips

According to the team at Yancey, “There are three main factors when choosing tips for a job: strength, penetration, and wear life. Depending on the material you’re digging into, these factors will help you decide which tip option is best.” They define these factors as:

• Strength: The ability to withstand digging and penetrating shocks and high breakout forces.
• Penetration: The ability to penetrate tough material when it’s tightly compacted, rocky, or frozen.
• Wear Life: The ability to withstand wearing, scouring, and abrasive action of the material being handled.

Each of these factors can be measured low, medium, or high. For example:

• Sandy environment (low): measures low for strength, penetration, and wear life. These tips would be wide and flared to make loading more efficient.
• Normal soil (medium): this environment would measure medium across the board. A standard tip is ideal as it balances durability with power.
• Dense or frozen environment (high): measures high across factors. These tips would be narrow and pointed to increase break in power.

Choosing the right GET tips for the job means your machine operates more efficiently, boosting your productivity, efficiency, and longevity.

Benefits of Cat GET Tips

Cat is unmatched when it comes to quality, durability, and innovation. Their GET tips are no different and offer a host of benefits not just to your machine, but to your entire project. Here’s how:

• Greater versatility: they may seem small but the impact is mighty. GET already provide tremendous options for your heavy machinery and tips can specialize your equipment even further.
• Increased performance: Choosing the right tips for your job reduces drag and resistance, freeing your machine to perform at its peak, saving you fuel, time, and money.
• Improved productivity: Increased performance means better productivity. You’ll move through your jobsite with efficiency because you’ll have the right tools for the job.
• Extended machine and component life: Tips absorb impact and damage because they’re on the front lines. This protects your machine and internal components from damage, making them last longer.
• Efficient repairs: Tips aren’t permanent; they’re designed to be replaced quickly and easily so your machine can keep working.

Save 20% on GET Tips

Yancey is proud to supply Georgia with Cat ground engaging tools and tips. We have solutions for all applications and budgets. And, for a limited time, you can save 20% on all Cat tips in store and online.

Cat has a range of products to suit your needs. Because it’s Cat, you know that whatever you choose, you’ll get tips and adapters that are versatile, durable and effective. Choose Yancey and save 20% on Cat tips today.