Lawn Leveling Drag

[walker450]

Built this this afternoon. Going to buy a few loads of sand and drag it around my yard. It is rough, very rough in spots.

 

[walker450]

I must give credit to the guy who made this YouTube video:

I added a piece of C perlin at the front that is 3/4" aboce ground level, thinking it will kind of act like a mini box blade and distribute some material, the next piece of angle rests on the ground, the next is 1/4" above ground, the last sets on the ground and is slightly angled back to help carry some material and also cut in a little more.

I may add a piece of "hog panel" behind it as well.

 

[walker450]

Nothing is welded so I can adjust as needed. The width is 7'

 

[Xfaxman]

:thumbsup: That should work better than mine .

 

[walker450]

I love it!! I was eyeing some things like that when I went on the hunt for material. I have some really big pallets that would have probably done just as good of a job.

 

[oosik]

I built this drag out of 4x4's, plywood & large spikes. I drag it around with my ATV. Spikes down if busting tilled land. Spikes up if leveling off those nasty pocket gopher mounds. View attachment 646849

 

[RalphVa]

An old bed spring would be good for that. Just put/tie some loads to one side of it and drag it around.

Ralph

 

[Thomas]

An old bed spring would be good for that. Just put/tie some loads to one side of it and drag it around.

Ralph

Your idea brings back lots of memories.

 

[Industrial Toys]

My drags always got caught on something like stumps. Save yourself some time and put at least one diagonal brace on it so it doesn't get all twisted.

 

[walker450]

You sir are correct, I added some bracing. I think this should do the trick.

I debated it yesterday but was thinking that I would just be dragging sand, what's the worst that could happen? You are totally correct, Murphey's law will prevail.

I had some thin angle iron laying around, didn't even cut it, should work to add some rigidity.

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