Excavating tooth

In an excavating device having a front end loader bucket, a plurality of teeth secured to said bucket and projecting forwardly therefrom, each of said teeth including an adapter fixed to said bucket and equipped with a forwardly projecting nose, a point releasably mounted on said nose, said point including a relatively elongated metal body having a transverse penetrating edge at the forward end and an adapter nose-receiving socket at the rear end, said socket being defined by top, bottom and sidewalls in said body corresponding to confronting walls on said nose with said socket top and bottom walls being forwardly convergent and said socket walls terminating forwardly in a generally box-shaped apex providing generally parallel upper and lower apex surfaces, each upper and lower surface having a length dimension and a transverse dimension with the transverse dimension being parallel to said penetrating edge, said transverse dimension being approximately 2.5 times said length dimension, said upper and lower apex surfaces being vertically spaced apart to provide a transverse dimension to the spaced apart dimension in the ratio of approximately 1.8, each of said socket walls in the point being rearwardly extended to form integral ears, said adapter being equipped with recesses to receive said ears, the ears associated with said top and bottom walls being equipped with aligned openings for the receipt of a lock means, said adapter being equipped with a vertically extending opening aligned with said ear openings, and a lock means removably mounted in the said aligned openings.