Need Idea!!!!

[Guest]

I want to build something cheap to pull behind my B-112 to leveling my hill road gravel wash by rain and car (not a rock rake because steel teeth not available) something simple. thank you very much Don.P Montréal.

[Kent 436]

Get a piece of a heavy I-beam, like a short chunk (4 feet?) of railroad track... use a piece of log chain or cable and bolt it on near each end, then pull it from the middle, forming a triangle...

[rickf 1]

Last fall, I saw a drag behind grader at a yard sale, when asked the guy said he used to pull it behind his b-10... but all of the AC parts were gone years before :( Anyway, it was the basic triangle, with a 6 or 8 Inch running board as the blade on the back with the ends bent forward a bit. The cool thing was there was two ~3/4" pipes sticking straight up off the back. He took weights off the barbell set (don't everyone have those lying around) and slid them over the pipes to add weight... Matter of fact, wouldn't this be a great way to make an adjustable rear counter weight!? Easy to manipulate and store. Cool, now I just have to talk the guy down on his $1000 L12 loader... Woulda bought it if I hadn't already just bought a box scraper. -R

[rickf 1]

Kent's right. When I was a teenager, my dad and I did something like this w/ a piece of I-beam, approx. 8-10", and about 6' long, behind his F-250 2x4. He also had one of us "riding" it, by standing up on it, and hanging onto a crowbar, which was shoved into a hole burned into the flange. You could vary the "angle of attack" using the crowbar, to cut deeper on the high spots, and not hog out the low spots further. Doesn't sound like the safest arrangement, in retrospect, but there were virtually no rocks there. I would think rocks, in conjunction w/ the crowbar, would endanger the "rider," if the beam flipped. It sounds like the proverbial "well, if you had two men and a boy you could..." but it did work! If you do use the crowbar, make sure your dragline is long enough that you are in no danger of being hit w/ it if it goes flying! Peter

[MPH 12]

Rick, not very easy to see on the pic I have but on the bar out the back of my 112 hang a pair of 25lb wts, adjustable by visegrips, works great.MPH http://a4.cpimg.com/image/54/86/8924244-b776-028001E0-.jpg