Glenn,
There seems to be a slight misunderstanding about the location of the scarifiers on a "rollover" scraper. They are not mounted "within" the box, but are completely outside of it. When the scraper is in the standard position for pulling soil forward, the scarifiers are behind the rear of the cutting edge pointing rearward and are not able to touch the soil. If you then release the latch and back up the tractor with the scraper touching the ground, it will roll 90 degrees placing the scarifiers downward to engage the soil and the latch locks it there. In this position the tractor hitch height determines the depth of the teeth in the soil--there is no cutting edge or box side member helping to gauge depth. Finally if you release the latch and drive in reverse again while the teeth are contacting the ground, it will roll another 90 degrees to position the second cutting edge onto the soil and pointing to the rear. When latched in this position, you can backfill when driving in reverse and do a very nice job of leveling and smoothing when driving forward. The teeth are now horizontal and underneath the frame of the scraper. Note that the scraper cannot roll continuously for 360 degrees since the ripper teeth would contact the structure forming the A-Frame (mast) of the 3 point hitch. It can only roll as much as 180 degrees in one sense and the back the same amount. It might be helpful to look at a photo of a rollover as you think through how it looks in the 3 configurations. There is a good photo at the Woods Website www.woodsonline.com. It is under landscape equipment/box scrapers/rollover. Hope this helps.
There seems to be a slight misunderstanding about the location of the scarifiers on a "rollover" scraper. They are not mounted "within" the box, but are completely outside of it. When the scraper is in the standard position for pulling soil forward, the scarifiers are behind the rear of the cutting edge pointing rearward and are not able to touch the soil. If you then release the latch and back up the tractor with the scraper touching the ground, it will roll 90 degrees placing the scarifiers downward to engage the soil and the latch locks it there. In this position the tractor hitch height determines the depth of the teeth in the soil--there is no cutting edge or box side member helping to gauge depth. Finally if you release the latch and drive in reverse again while the teeth are contacting the ground, it will roll another 90 degrees to position the second cutting edge onto the soil and pointing to the rear. When latched in this position, you can backfill when driving in reverse and do a very nice job of leveling and smoothing when driving forward. The teeth are now horizontal and underneath the frame of the scraper. Note that the scraper cannot roll continuously for 360 degrees since the ripper teeth would contact the structure forming the A-Frame (mast) of the 3 point hitch. It can only roll as much as 180 degrees in one sense and the back the same amount. It might be helpful to look at a photo of a rollover as you think through how it looks in the 3 configurations. There is a good photo at the Woods Website www.woodsonline.com. It is under landscape equipment/box scrapers/rollover. Hope this helps.