My "Super Duper" Drag

[J_J]

Boy!- J_J borrowing your design? There's a compliment!!! Wish I had that for my 'deer-plot' activities, instead of just my mini ATV disc and chainlink! Ya might just have another 'clone' being 'born' up north!! Thanks! ~Scotty

Well, you have to give credit where credit is due. I will have to tailor mine to pull behind my Kubota-9200 HST 4WD I also have lots of steel.

 

[kcprecision]

The pictures are of a drag that was given to me. I did a lot of maintance welding on the thing but did not build it for the original owner Originally the drag was pulled behind a truck with chains.

The chain anchor points were cut off and a 3pt frame work was welded on.As this thing was too heavy for me to move it around I use the jack to adjust the angle before doing any welding. BTW the angle is fixed.

On the rear of the drag is a long piece of rail road iron that floats behind the cutting edge to smooth out a ridges that are left when a rock or something rolls under the cutting edge. The RR iron hangs off a couple of spikes when transporting the drag on road.

This is just another way of doing the job, hope it gives you guys some ideas.

 

[mjncad]

Looks good Eddie. I'm happy to see good old Yankee (Forgive me) ingenuity at work.

 

[jinman]

The pictures are of a drag that was given to me. I did a lot of maintance welding on the thing but did not build it for the original owner

Your drag looks like my theory: "The uglier it is, the better it will work." If my wife asks me to hide it, it's probably my favorite tool. Just check out my boxblade weight below.

 

[EddieWalker]

This is just another way of doing the job, hope it gives you guys some ideas.

Interesting idea. It sort of looks like a cross between a box blade and a drag. The thing about a drag that I like is that it follows the contour of the ground and doesn't really change anything, it just makes it smoother. That is my goal. The small bumps and low spots that it cuts off and fills is part of the process, but overall, it doesn't change the shape of the land.

With a boxblade, I'm dangerous. I'm one of those guys that just never figured it out and went to other means to get the results I wanted. Mostly I like my loader bucket. That is my first choice for finish work and what I use most often. The dozer is good for roughing in work, but with a 12 foot wide blade, and 40,000 pounds, I can only get it so smooth. From the seat, it looks perfect, but then walking on it, I see lots of little imperfections. The drag fixes those in just a few passes, where it would take me hours to get it right with the dozer. Sometimes I make it worse before making it better with the dozer.

My fear of attaching the drag to the lift arms of my tractor is that I will make waves in the land or create low spots that I didn't have before. I do like the idea of being able to pick it up, but don't think it's that big of a priority that I'd take the time to do so. Mostly, when I'm done with the drag, I just leave it where it is. When I need it, I go get it, use it and leave it there. Right now, it's out in the woods, hundreds of yards away from the house.

After the mud dries up, I'll run it around some more. I'm real excited about how it works and really wanting to use it as much as possible right now. What's really cool is that I went over an area around my new burn pile. Then I got on my tractor with the grapple on it and moves a bunch of debris from the woods to the burn pile. It was so nice driving over the smooth dirt!!!!

Eddie

 

[shinnlinger]

KC,

Does you drag move material the wrong way? To the shoulder instead of the crown?

 

[Slackdaddy]

Your drag looks like my theory: "The uglier it is, the better it will work." If my wife asks me to hide it, it's probably my favorite tool. Just check out my boxblade weight below.

Hmmm?,
I have the same theory with women

 

[kcprecision]

Shinnlinger, the angle is set to move the material to the crown of the road.

 

[LBrown59]

Interesting idea. It sort of looks like a cross between a box blade and a drag. The thing about a drag that I like is that it follows the contour of the ground and doesn't really change anything, it just makes it smoother. That is my goal. The small bumps and low spots that it cuts off and fills is part of the process, but overall, it doesn't change the shape of the land.

With a boxblade,
My fear of attaching the drag to the lift arms of my tractor is that I will make waves in the land or create low spots that I didn't have before. I do like the idea of being able to pick it up, but don't think it's that big of a priority that I'd take the time to do so. Mostly, when I'm done with the drag, I just leave it where it is. When I need it, I go get it, use it and leave it there. Right now, it's out in the woods, hundreds of yards away from the house.
Eddie

My idea is to lift and lower it with the 3 point but dragging /towing it would be done with a chain so the drag would follow the contour of the ground and doesn't really change anything, it just makes it smoother.

 

[radioman]

My idea is to lift and lower it with the 3 point but dragging /towing it would be done with a chain so the drag would follow the contour of the ground and doesn't really change anything, it just makes it smoother.

Then build one for one of your bota and post here. you got a dirt driveway to use it on don't ya ?

 

[mikereid]

I use the back 7' wide gate off a 16' lanscape type trailer of ours that someone stole. All that is left is the gate. It is about 7' x 5' with the wire mesh they put on so you can drive stuff up it. I load it down with cinder blocks. Works pretty good. I can even lighten it up some and use it with our lawn mower.

 

[jayste]

I use the back 7' wide gate off a 16' lanscape type trailer of ours that someone stole. All that is left is the gate. It is about 7' x 5' with the wire mesh they put on so you can drive stuff up it. I load it down with cinder blocks. Works pretty good. I can even lighten it up some and use it with our lawn mower.

I bet that does work good. Good and wide as well. I wonder though how it would work by dragging the thief who stole your trailer, weighted down with cinder blocks! Sorry, I have no tolerance for thieves!

 

[MikesTractor]

I bet that does work good. Good and wide as well. I wonder though how it would work by dragging the thief who stole your trailer, weighted down with cinder blocks! Sorry, I have no tolerance for thieves!

I second that!!!

Just 1 question.....When you use them for drags, where do you connect the tow chain?

 

[jayste]

I second that!!!

Just 1 question.....When you use them for drags, where do you connect the tow chain?

Thanks for reminding me Mike. That would be around the neck with a slip hook on the chain of course!

 

[LBrown59]

Then build one for one of your botas and post here. you got a dirt driveway to use it on don't ya ?

in use

finshed surface.

 

[radioman]

in use

finshed surface.

Very nice!. that is another way to do it.

 

[Egon]

I think Mr. Brown should come up and drag the access road to our lake lot!

 

[jenkinsph]

You could add some base course to the road but then you will get more traffic.


Steve

 

[radioman]

I think Mr. Brown should come up and drag the access road to our lake lot!

he cant right now. he wants a deckover trailer with no sides, 16 footer and needs to get a replacement truck that is safe for his needs. isn't that right lbrown?

 

[beppington]

Eddie ... Could you remove blocks from one side of your drag so it would crown a road? (or remove the center & one side section of blocks)