Tom M King
05-27-2021, 5:34 PM
I have seen smaller one of these on youtube used on finished lawns that were already pretty level. We have several acres of ground we're planting with new grass. Long story shortened, I wanted a long one, to fill in low spots, so the area can be cut at a high of a speed as possible.
This was just a first trial, and guesswork, with no drawings made. It's made from four 20' 3x3x3/16" angle irons. I just finished it this morning, and tried it out with some topsoil I already had. We have a spot where we've let several subdivisions dump leaves for 40 years. It's full of worms, and great stuff. I've been waiting for an excavator to come pile it up, so another guy can bring a big screen to screen it. The dirt I was using today wasn't screened, and any rock, or stick would jamb things up, and cut a groove. I'm anxious for them to come screen the probably thousand plus cubic yards of compost, but wanted to try it out.
The bare dirt down by the cove is a low spot I've been wanting to level out for years.
It works like a charm. I can drag it across growing grass with no harm to the grass. It won't even cut off Dandelion stems.
It's 6-1/2 feet wide, and 12 feet long. My intention was for it to work like a jointer plane for dirt, but rather than take off the high parts, it fills in the low parts. This tractor has a loader, so I can load a bucket full, dump some in low spots as I drive, and pull the drag behind. It's hard to do such jobs with a box blade, without harming growing grass.
I had all the Pine trees taken off of our point, and lost what little topsoil there was in the process of getting it fairly leveled back out.
This was just a first trial, and guesswork, with no drawings made. It's made from four 20' 3x3x3/16" angle irons. I just finished it this morning, and tried it out with some topsoil I already had. We have a spot where we've let several subdivisions dump leaves for 40 years. It's full of worms, and great stuff. I've been waiting for an excavator to come pile it up, so another guy can bring a big screen to screen it. The dirt I was using today wasn't screened, and any rock, or stick would jamb things up, and cut a groove. I'm anxious for them to come screen the probably thousand plus cubic yards of compost, but wanted to try it out.
The bare dirt down by the cove is a low spot I've been wanting to level out for years.
It works like a charm. I can drag it across growing grass with no harm to the grass. It won't even cut off Dandelion stems.
It's 6-1/2 feet wide, and 12 feet long. My intention was for it to work like a jointer plane for dirt, but rather than take off the high parts, it fills in the low parts. This tractor has a loader, so I can load a bucket full, dump some in low spots as I drive, and pull the drag behind. It's hard to do such jobs with a box blade, without harming growing grass.
I had all the Pine trees taken off of our point, and lost what little topsoil there was in the process of getting it fairly leveled back out.