Show me your Drag

number9L · May 3, 2016

I've built my boys a dirt oval go kart track and need something to smooth it out with. I don't want to spend a bunch of money on a land plane or whatever. Back in the day when I raced karts, the track owners would drag an old box spring with tires and concrete blocks on it around the track, but I can't find a box spring set like that ANYWHERE these days.

Show me what you've made to smooth the ground something similar :thumbsup:

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k0ua · May 3, 2016

number9L said:
I've built my boys a dirt oval go kart track and need something to smooth it out with. I don't want to spend a bunch of money on a land plane or whatever. Back in the day when I raced karts, the track owners would drag an old box spring with tires and concrete blocks on it around the track, but I can't find a box spring set like that ANYWHERE these days.

Show me what you've made to smooth the ground something similar :thumbsup:

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Something like this?

sea2summit · May 3, 2016

Add or remove logs depending on how lumpy the ground is and how fast you want to knock it down.

Also use a hog panel behind the four wheeler for the wife's running trail, works great for finish type work.

teg · May 3, 2016

number9L said:
...I can't find a box spring set like that ANYWHERE these days...

Wife's mother in Chattanooga has one in her basement... shipping would be cost prohibitive :duh:

Told my wife I wanted it... :fiery: She was not happy.

aczlan · May 3, 2016

I have seen a piece of chainlink with 1-4 pieces of 4x4 on top (one on the front, one on the back, add more in the middle to make it more aggressive).

Aaron Z

number9L · May 3, 2016

Hmm.......i've got tons of woods I can get logs from - even have an old telephone pole..........also have some old tires (big truck tires, and can get more) that I could use, if they work good?

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California · May 3, 2016

number9L said:
I can't find a box spring set like that ANYWHERE these days.

Nowadays they are covered with upholstery. No big deal to cut that off to make a drag from the structure inside.

I'll bet a 'wanted, free' listing on Craigslist would discover one.

I made a drag like that from a lower innerspring (they call that 'foundation'?) to go over disced ground, but so much junk got jammed in the coils that I gave up and took it to the dump.

Replaced it with a simple land plane I welded up from bedrail angle. That isn't ideal like a bought one, but its sufficient.