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Plans for a drag harrow needed

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Bob in AZ

02-19-2007 14:16:37




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I am in the process of making a drag harrow to level and clean up 4 acres of ground . I have 3 10 foot 8x8 timbers , a 10 foot heavy channel iron rear truck bumper , a 7 foot old box scraper blade , and a 5"x6" box tubing frame in my junkpile . I have some ideas and searched the web ... but would like more ideas .

Basically I"m thinking of bolting 1 timber at each end of the frame and slinging the blade crosswise and parallel to them . The timbers will stabilize the blade like a grader and even out the ground hopefully .

Give me some ideas or better yet a picture here or my email addy if you"ve built something that works super good .

If my idea is unclear I can post a picture or 2 but its raining outside right now .

Thanks for any ideas and advise , Bob in AZ

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Bob in AZ

02-20-2007 08:55:55




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 Re: Plans for a drag harrow needed in reply to Bob in AZ , 02-19-2007 14:16:37  
Thanks for all the information . I"m reading and digesting it and making a few drawings . Internet has surprisingly few pictures of something that should be so common .

What I have done is used a 6 foot box blade with rippers to level up to this point , but now I need the drag to really get it leveled out and smooth . I have a hard time getting the boxblade to behave itself and wind up gouging insted of smoothing . They are tricky , especially with an old tractor with leaky hydraulics in the 3 point . It slowly bleeds down and contstant adjustment is required to keep the blade from digging in . Add that to my operator inexperiance and you get the picture.

Its sunny out today ... I"ll take some pics of the materials I have to work with and post later .

Thanks , Bob

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hay

02-20-2007 08:12:11




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 Re: Plans for a drag harrow needed in reply to Bob in AZ , 02-19-2007 14:16:37  
i built one last year but unfortunately i cannot post picutres on here. mine is 6ft wide X 3ft.deep made of 2x2x1/4" angle. welded a lot of 5/8"X12" rebars to the angle and it drags great. lets the dirt flow thru and catches the ground trash. also mine is built on 3 pt. hitch so i can lift it when backing or if it clogs. BTW, i could not find plans either, so i designed one myself. it's kinds lightweight so it's easy to hookup and weight could be added to the top of the angle frame.

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MLD

02-20-2007 07:50:31




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 Re: Plans for a drag harrow needed in reply to Bob in AZ , 02-19-2007 14:16:37  
Sounds like its going to be very heavy & plow up a bunch of dirt in the front, rather than level the ground. I don't know????



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jwal10

02-19-2007 19:00:55




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 Re: Plans for a drag harrow needed in reply to Bob in AZ , 02-19-2007 14:16:37  
I used 5 truck tires,2 in front, 3 in the back, bolted together. Used chain for the hitch. Use large flat washers on both sides of bolts to keep them from pulling through. Makes a good drag. Width and weight can be adjusted by size of tires.For a farmall H used 7.50x20, Farmall B 7.50x16.



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John S-B

02-19-2007 18:13:12




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 Re: Plans for a drag harrow needed in reply to Bob in AZ , 02-19-2007 14:16:37  
Bob, go to the implement photo section and put in "homemade drag harrow" into the search box. There is a pic there of one that I made. It is 8' wide. You can see how well it works by the plot in the backround. It is made from 4x6" beams. I drilled holes every 6" and staggered on the back beam so the holes are centered between the one on the front. I used railroad spikes in the holes, turned so the point runs parallel to the side. The holes are 3/4" so the spikes don't move. I then lag screwed a 2x6 to make sure the spikes don't come out. You can see how the ends go on with lags. The "basket" on top holds weights so it digs in. In the pic I have it set up to drag with a chain, I used cast eye bolts because the formed wire ones were'nt strong enough. Use caution using this method if there are big rocks or anything big that you could catch the harrow on. I have since bolted on a three point carryall platform so I can use the three point, much more handy that way. Good luck.

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johns48jdb

02-19-2007 15:48:27




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 Re: Plans for a drag harrow needed in reply to Bob in AZ , 02-19-2007 14:16:37  
are you going to pull this drag behind a pick up disk or a three point hitch disk? if you are you can make a drag that foats behind the disk and is picked up when you pick the disk up. to make one you need to attach an arm some where forward of the rear gang. to this arm attach another arm the will go back to the drag. these two arms can be welded together at about a 90 degree angle. you'll need two of these arms one for each side of the disk. the slope on the last arm will hit on the rear gang when you pick the disk up and force the drag to be picked up at the same time. its a matter of playing with what you have as to how high all of this is put together. its ease to do. the point where the first arms attache to the disk has to be a pivot point so the drag can float. i used a piece of 2 inch angle on the bottom of the second set of arms where they touch the ground and then added a piece of flat stock about 5 or 6 incehes wide to the angle. that made it look like a grader blade and if the dirt piles up to high on it it will just run over the blade. em me if you don't understand and i'll give you my telephone number. if your going to use just a chain to pull a drag a round piece of pipe works best. if you weld two pieces of pipes together with a piece of steel seperating them it will do a better job. the welded up piece would look like the roman numeral II. don't weld the drag chain up to high on the front pipe or it will cause the drag to dig in. if you put it to low it will pick the drag up and not let the front pipe touch the ground real good.

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