I get 3,000 pounds how about you?

[Laminarman]

I have a chance to get a lawn roller cheap that measures 24 x 48" long. Filling it with water I calculate it weighs (water alone) about 3,000 pounds. Now I need to figure out how to hook it on my drawbar. It's one made for a garden tractor.

 

[Henro]

I think it is more like 750 lbs...but I did the math in my head so I would not count on it... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Chance are I might be close though. I can't imagine a garden tractor pulling a 3,000 lb roller... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Gomez]

Sounds like you're off a little. Using Pi* R^2*Length, I get about 94 gallons. Rough number of 8 pounds/gallon gives about 752 pounds.

Try this link for a quick calculator.
Virtual Cylinder Volume

 

[Currmudgeon]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Rough number of 8 pounds/gallon )</font>

Clean water weighs in at 8.33 lbs / gal

Sewage weighs eight pounds and a turd.

 

[Laminarman]

Thanks guys. I guess that serves me right for doing this on my morning thinking post with pencil and pad. Sorry about that. Now on to the question: can I rig this puppy and will it roll disced dirt flat and firm prior to seeding (clover and/or grass depending on which part of my property I'm on)? I've been told to get a cultipacker, but too expensive for the limited use. This costs $75 used, and my water is pretty free. Only drawback is it's only 4' wide on a 40hp tractor.

 

[Laminarman]

Just saw the other post here marked "roller" that addresses my issue quite well. Sorry for the redundancy.

 

[greg_g]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Only drawback is it's only 4' wide on a 40hp tractor. )</font>
Wrong tool for the job. Even at 750#, it will probably bounce. When encountering a 10# rock, it will surely dent - maybe even rupture. At that point $75 will look cheap.

Ever think about rentals?

//greg//

 

[IrTxRx]

That's funny, i actually laughed out loud.
It is good to know I am not gowing out of the "potty humor" phase /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Phred]

How about two fifty five gallon drums welded togheter and filled with concrete?

Concrete is about 2.3 gm/cm^3.
1 gallon is 3785.412 cm^3.

So 110 gallons is 416395.32 cm^3.

So this thing is 957709.236 gm or about
2107 lbs.

This is excluding the weight of the drums and the metal that forms the hitch.
This is plenty heavy enough for me. In fact I recently bent the hitch frame since it was the weakest of the three parts; my tractor, the conrete filled drums, and the hitch.

If you really have a 3K lb roller by very careful. I pull my 2K roller with a 70hp 4wd tractor or a Diesel F250. Even then the steep hills make me a little nervous. What happens when the hitch breaks and that 3K lbs runs wild? Maybe not a problem for you. But my hitch is home made, by previous owner, and it was not overly engineered.


On edit:
A roller 48"x24" is about 94 gallons or 355838.629381 cm^3.
Density of water is 1 gm / cm^3
Therefore your roller should be 355839 gm
or 784.47 lbs.

Fred

 

[Currmudgeon]

There aren't many good Civil Engineering jokes.

 

[Junkman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Wrong tool for the job. Even at 750#, it will probably bounce. When encountering a 10# rock, it will surely dent - maybe even rupture. At that point $75 will look cheap.

Ever think about rentals?

//greg// )</font>
I have a similar roller and it has never ruptured or and as for denting, the only dents in it are the ones that were there when I bought it. It fell off the truck and one end is slightly flattened. Never had a problem with it rolling my lawn to get out the winter wrinkels...

 

[Laminarman]

Junkman

Did you rig your roller to pull from the drawbar? If so, how did you do it? If I get a six foot roller (still cheap, even new) I may saw off the front attachment thingy and weld on a heavier duty extension to tie into the drawbar.

 

[dummy]

Aren't they the guys pocket protectors were invented for so their slide rule and pencil didn't ruin the shirt Mom just ironed for them?

 

[Egon]

Volume = 22/7 x radius squared x length [ Units in feet will give cubic feet.]

FreshWater = 62.4 pounds /cubic foot. [ If memory is corecct ]

Think the weight would be about 780 pounds.

Egon

 

[Gomez]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( There aren't many good Civil Engineering jokes.

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My brother-inlaw has a PhD in Civil Engineering, but he'd have a hard time changing a tire /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif (book smart/not too sharp with tools). I think that's hilarious. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[greg_g]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Junkman

Did you rig your roller to pull from the drawbar? If so, how did you do it? If I get a six foot roller (still cheap, even new) I may saw off the front attachment thingy and weld on a heavier duty extension to tie into the drawbar. )</font>
Still the wrong tool for the job. A wider version of the lawn roller is still a lawn roller. Unless something has changed since you started this thread, you're trying to finish a deer plot.

There was a 9' cultipacker - the RIGHT tool for the job - for sale in the paper yesterday for two hundred bucks. By the time you get done buying a 6' lawn roller, modifying the hitch, then hitting that inevitable 10# rock in your freshly turned deer plot - I think $200 might look real good in hindsight.

//greg//

 

[Laminarman]

Greg

Believe me, if I could find a $200 cultipacker I'd have it right away. I can't find one anywhere. Only ones I can find (6' minimum) require shipping and are all over $400. I'll keep looking. Looks like for now I'll plow, disc and drag harrow, and let the rain settle it a little. These will be sorghum, clover and brassica's plots, so I'm not into spending a ton of money to get my venison and big deer. I enjoy the projects however and appreciate your feedback. If anyone sees a cultipacker within a few hours drive of Upstate NY please let me know. I'm borrowing the disc and plow for now, but my friend doesn't have anything to pack the dirt. Deal was I come up with a roller implement and we share every year. We're both cheap.

 

[Poppa]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( There aren't many good Civil Engineering jokes.

)</font>

I don't know, some of the things that have made me laugh the loudest were put on paper by a civil engineer.
/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Not that there is anything wrong with that. And, Some of my best friends are civil engineers. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Mike

 

[Soundguy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( There aren't many good Civil Engineering jokes.
)</font>

Sure there are.. its just they are usually brought up by ME's.

Here's one for the group..

CE's build tragets.. ME's build the toys that destroy those targets.

Soundguy

 

[Soundguy]

Hmm.. a slide rule.. I think that will hit Ce's.. Me's.. and Ae's
( rocket science. etc ).. An EE might have som sort of pocket reference.. .. and a Chem-E is probably not using a pocket protector.. but rather a full body protector.. ( lab coat.. )


Oh yeah.. and that was more to save the pocket from an INK pen.. not as much a pencil.. but whatever's available.. etc

Soundguy