A material penetrating tool includes a shaft portion defining a central axis, and an enlarged cutting portion extending downwardly axially from the shaft portion. The enlarged cutting portion includes a rearward blunt surface, a front cutting surface, a first side surface and a second side surface, and the first side surface and the second side surface define an angle of extension measured in a plane perpendicular to the central axis, forming a wider forward cutting surface than the rearward blunt surface in a plane perpendicular to the central axis.

An adapter board defines an upper adapter board attachment portion, and a lower tool bit attachment portion. The upper adapter board attachment portion includes a first peak surface and a second peak surface, the first peak surface and the second peak surface forming a first valley between the first peak surface and the second peak surface.

A blade assembly includes an adapter board including a lower tool bit attachment portion, terminating in a lower adapter board free end, the lower adapter board free end defining a bottom surface defining a plurality of shank receiving bores. A plurality of bushings are disposed in a corresponding one of the plurality of shank receiving bores.

A tooth for a bucket of an excavator includes a point body having a hollow insertion recess and having a pair of coupling holes provided at positions facing each other on the opposite sides, and a pair of connection units respectively inserted into the pair of coupling holes and having a unit body and a protrusion protruding from the unit body, wherein the point body includes: a guide portion positioned in each of the coupling holes and guiding a rotational operation of the protrusion, a fixing portion fixing a position of each of the inserted connection unit, a buffer portion positioned between the fixing portion and an inner surface of the point body and surrounding the fixing portion, and a support where the fixing portion and the buffer portion are positioned.

A retainer sleeve includes an at least partially annular body defining an axis of rotation, a radial direction, and a circumferential direction. The body may also have a radially inner annular surface defining a radially inner aperture, and a first anti-rotation feature extending radially inwardly from the radially inner annular surface including a sloping ledge having a locking surface that faces at least partially in the circumferential direction and along a direction that is parallel to the axis of rotation, forming an oblique angle with the direction that is parallel to the axis of rotation.

A blade assembly includes an adapter board including a lower tool bit attachment portion, terminating in a lower adapter board free end, the lower adapter board free end defining a bottom surface defining a plurality of shank receiving bores. A plurality of bushings are disposed in a corresponding one of the plurality of shank receiving bores.

A bolt retention assembly defines a horizontal direction, a vertical direction, and a lateral direction that is perpendicular to the vertical direction and the horizontal direction. The bolt retention assembly includes an adapter including a forward abutment portion and a rearward horizontally oriented saddle portion. The adapter may also define an interior aperture. The bolt retention assembly further includes a slide including a forward threaded portion configured to fit within the interior aperture of the adapter, and a rearward vertically oriented cradle portion configured to receive the rearward horizontally oriented saddle portion of the adapter.

A cutting component for a machine including a moldboard with a first end and an adapter plate with an adapter slot mounted to the moldboard proximate the first end. The cutting component can include body portion and a fastening portion that extends from the body portion. The fastener portion is shaped to slidably mate with the adapter slot of the adapter plate. The fastening portion can be shaped with a first portion located at the interface between the body portion and the fastening portion, and a second portion located further from the body portion than the first portion and shaped wider than the first portion. The difference in width between the first portion and second portion, allows the cutting component engage with the adapter plate from within in the adapter slot and resist to resist working loads with material during operation of the machine.

A fastening system can include a clamp configured to engage profiles formed in respective legs of a wear component, a wedge having a face configured to engage the clamp, and another face being configured to engage a surface of an opening formed through a lip, an externally threaded member rotatable by a shaft, and a biasing device that exerts an axially biasing force against the threaded member. A method can include positioning a wear component on a lip, installing a clamp into an opening formed through the lip, engaging surfaces of the clamp with profiles formed in legs of a wear component, installing a wedge into the opening, a face of the wedge engaging the clamp and an opposing face of the wedge engaging a surface of the opening, and rotating a shaft, thereby compressing a biasing device and exerting a biasing force that biases the wedge into the opening.

A product and system for identifying and monitoring a characteristic including the part ID, presence, condition, usage and/or performance of ground-engaging products used on various kinds of earth working equipment.