Award Winning Merlin Point Systems
High Wear Resistant Point with replaceable wear parts make for the most cost effective point system on the market!
On a digging point it’s the tip, and right on the tip, that gets the extreme wear. The main body doesn’t, never the less the whole thing has to be thrown out, just because the tip is worn out. So we made the tip like an easily replaceable glove.And sticking with the Middle Ages and the magic theme for naming, it’s called a GAUNTLET.And, like its name sake, it too protects what’s inside it. Then at the very tip of the GAUNTLET we fitted a strip of tungsten carbide. On the serrated sides we put dobs of a hard facing material we call CBC (colloidal boron carbide) for more wear protection. Additional, in the design of these MERLIN components, we structured things so that in many places, the dirt itself packs in and the dirt becomes the wearing surface. And it all works. The GAUNTLET seems to last about ten times as long as the old WOMBAT point we have used for years.The main body on the MERLIN 2 seems to be outlasting WOMBATS twenty to one. It’s remarkable. It also won an Australian National Field Days Award of Excellence. We all know that a plow point becomes worse than useless when it’s so worn it stops protecting the actual shank. Now the top surface of points on all types of rippers, including the Yeomans is subject to a fair amount of wear. So to stop that being a problem, on the MERLIN we fitted two cute and cheap little replaceable items, the RABBIT and the TOP HAT. The top of the MERLIN is protected from wear, which in turn safely protects the plow shank. (or theYeomans Weld On Base if one has been fitted to non-Yeomans shanks)