homemade driveway drag

Anonymous-0

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does anyone have pictures of a homemade gravel drag they have made to use behind there "n" with a pole where you can lift off the ground? I have a weilder and can fab, just need some ideas. thanks
 
Might want to lighten up on materials for an N

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here's a pasture drag i built with tires.. might smooth a driveway too.. dunno.

this one is pull.. but if you have a gin pole.. you could attach the pull piece tot he base of the gin pole, and then us ethe gin pole tip with 3-4 ropes to lift the entire drag.

other options are to use a chain drag section, and build a frame with some angle for lifting it witht he pole. i'd do it about the same way.. attach drag to bas of pole.. then build a box frame for lifting..
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Before I got my W Speed Patrol I used an old heavy piece of I beam with loops welded on the ends so you could hook a chain to it fro pulling it. That way you could also set it to drag at an angle. Worked pretty good and I still have it laying on an old trailer I have out back
 
DR, DoMor and other companies make them mostly in towed versions. Just Google em and take a look at how they are built. You can get a lot of ideas there.

Rick
 
Nice grader.
The tractor looks like a 3 cylinder 4000 of one sort or another. Maybe 4400 or 4500. Has the Gannon setup on it so you'd have down pressure on the 3 point - in addition to the hydraulic top link. No pto though. Still a nice tractor.
 
Soundguy, I love the color red. Next time I paint my jubilee, it wants to be that color too. My C is a 1950, what year is your's? I have a 6 ft belly mower on mine.
George
 
Sound guy,
Looks Great! My dad had an H with a loader. We used for everything. The loader cracked the H in half. Dad brazed it back together and worked fine. I was using the H to load logs on the truck to take to the saw mill. Got the log up in the are and over the tractor went. That was a good lesson on center of gravity. Sent me flying. Thank God, there was a large log that the back wheel landed on top of. I may not have been here if the log wasn't there. I love the deep color of IH RED. We also had an MD.
George
 
i've been wanting an H for a looooong time. back before I got my 8n, when i was moving out of the city into the more rural area where i had farm property, i was scouting a real tractor. I already had a import grey market jap compact ( yanmar 1700 ~ 21hp.. 4' mower.. box blade.. etc.. ).. but wanted soemthing better. one of the contractors i was looking at for a barn on our farm property.. he had a 49H with a 6' woods belly mower for sale for 2800$.. it went down to 2500$ and I wanted it.. got tied up for a week with work.. saw he had it at 2200$.. the day i went to get it it was sold.. :)


last year i think? after i finished my C i started looking for an H, M or a 300.. found a few H.. picked the best of the bunch and got it. this one just needed some belts and gaskets, plenty electrical work ( new wires, reg, and some switches.. etc.. )a leak or 2 chased, and a some paint. got a weight set for it and hung those.. ( man those things are heavy! )... she's got a ratty rear on one side.. 30% tread and a gash thru the outter layer of rubber but it holds air... other rear is about 50% tread.. a lil dry but looking good... fronts are real good.

rears are so much money I run them till they fly off the rim.. :)

soundguy

ps.. on the red.. i also like a deep red. manuy times i have used mf red to paint a .. ford. :)
 
My mom had my C. I got it for $1500, put another $500 in it. Got the 6 ft mower off an H. Had to paint, starter drive, alternator, head gasket. Runs great, wish jubilee road as smooth.

Still have the 6 ft mower on Jubilee. Use both. Both tractors have very healthy engines.
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i see yours sports an alt like mine.

i had to completely contrive a set of brackets using soem metal tabs and threaded rod, stacks of washer and nuts. looks odd but works fine?!
 
Soundguy,
This is getting way off the driveway drag topic, hope no one gets upset with us. I had to remove the draw bar when I installed the 6 ft belly mower. So I had to invent a hitch that would be strong enough to pull a 10k dump trailer full of gravel out of my gravel pit. Here is what I came up with.
George
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Here is a driveway grader I just completed. I have the plans available.
One thing I would advise, make it as heavy as your tractor can handle. I have read that 110 lbs per foot of width is recommended, and after using it, I would agree. This one is 6' wide. The wheels on my 8N were just starting to lose traction when I was dragging this up a slight hill in the gravel. I lifted the 3PH just a bit, which put more weight on the tractor, and all was good. This thing does an excellent job at smoothing out my 1/2 mile gravel driveway.[/img]
 
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Actually, here is the finished product. I had planned to use a scraper blade that I bought from AgriAupply, but then I stumbled across a used motor grader blade. (The silver thing with holes in it).
The blade weighs about 100lbs and for what I'm using it for will never wear out.

Anyone want to buy a brand new 6'6" scraper blade?[/img]
 
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Here is a driveway grader I just completed. I have the plans available.
One thing I would advise, make it as heavy as your tractor can handle. I have read that 110 lbs per foot of width is recommended, and after using it, I would agree. This one is 6' wide. The wheels on my 8N were just starting to lose traction when I was dragging this up a slight hill in the gravel. I lifted the 3PH just a bit, which put more weight on the tractor, and all was good. This thing does an excellent job at smoothing out my 1/2 mile gravel driveway.[/img]
 

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