Bulldozers can be equipped with ripping equipment. On the crawler dozers single - and triple-tooth rippers can be mounted, which are intended to rip soil (including frozen soil) and rock, separating them from the general mass in the form of lumps of various sizes and pieces.
Rippers shanks are used for:
heavy soils, soft limestone;
shales, heavy clay;
cemented gravel, sandstone;
frozen soils, compacted construction debris;
ripping of the old pavement.