Need some ideas to level garden/tilled ground

Matt in TN · Jun 6, 2013

I have three 4"OD pipes that are 80" long. They are Schedule 40 and made of metal. I also have some 2" angle iron and a piece of 5' long 3" channel that I may be able to use. I normally drag one length of pipe behind the disc, but it just doesn't get the results I want. I filled it with concrete to weight it down, but it just isn't enough.

So I'd like to build a frame and use all three pipes. Should I make the pipes drag at an angle? How much space should there be between them? Should I make the ground engaging part of the drag out of angle and let the pipes be the "weight" part?

I want this drag to be hooked to the drawbar. I have a box blade and a scraper blade and neither will do what I want to do in this application... Let me hear your opinions.

glennster · Jun 6, 2013

well matt, dont tell anybody, but what i found works pretty good are pallets. flip them over, hook up chains to the front edge on the bottom so it lifts the leading edge of the pallet slightly off the ground and drag it behind the tractor. you can toss some cinder blocks on the pallets for weight too. i use em when i re-seed my grass drive lanes. works good and is cheap. prolly swipe some pallets from over at krusers house.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 6, 2013

Probably hard to find, but we used to use open sets
of bed springs to finish leveling before sowing new
grass seed.

Hendrik · Jun 6, 2013

A drag made of half tires, mounted in a staggered fashion may work. These drags are usually used for pastures; see no reason why it wouldn't work for you. See link.
HTH
Drag made of half tires

Fergienewbee · Jun 6, 2013

I used the entire tire in a pyramid shape. What is the advantage of a half tire?

Larry

gtractorfan · Jun 6, 2013

I made a blade at least 4' wide to use with the walk behind tractor. It drags a pile of ground and it's easy to lift or push down on the handles as needed to level ground, works great for me.

Traditional Farmer · Jun 7, 2013

I picked up an old beat up York rake and took out every other tooth and it levels ground really well plus it gets the large rocks.

Texasmark1 · Jun 7, 2013

Half tire like you'd cut a Bagel with the cut down gives you a knife like edge that does a good job on poop. Not sure about this application.

Mark

Texasmark1 · Jun 7, 2013

My problem with this sort of thing is that if you get it heavy
enough to do what you want, it tries to submarine and pile dirt
up on top of it. I would think that having a round pipe as the
first element would prevent that; unlike a piece of angle iron or
something square.....blunt face.

I use a commercially built chain harrow that works good. I can't
advise on number of pipes you mentioned nor spacing. Might
just cobble something together that is easily disassembled and
experiment till you get the recipe then build it to last.

Mark

MI AC Parsons · Jun 7, 2013

Holy cow, Hendrik, that link gave me more ideas of
stuff that I didn't know that I needed! Always
amazed at what people know. thanks

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