I am looking for a good home use gravel drag to pull behind my lawn tractor tractor. Do any of you uave a good recommendation in the $150 and down price range?
Before I had a tractor I used an old 12' cross arm cut in 3 pieces with a piece of chain link fence stapled to it. I spaced bolts about every 8" across the first piece of arm. Put a little extra weight on it to keep it from riding up. Will take a pic when I get a chance.
Old bed spring or chainlink fence sounds cheaper than a com drag. Works just as good... maybe better. I pulled a bed spring round and round on our lawn area years ago. Worked great.
You could even just use pallets with chain link wrapped around it with some weight on top. The second pic you can kind of see the bolts. Railroad spikes with a top strap may work more better. Could also bolt 5 tires together, 3 in back 2 upfront in a triangle pattern. You can run bolts in those too. Not sure if they will dig in well though. I would try to use the heaviest thing that the tractor can pull to dig in. It would be neat to make a ripper that mounted were the deck goes as well.
I use a spike tooth harrow with excellent results. http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/for/4606259671.html http://thumb.craigslist.org/grd/4650872830.html
4' chunk of heavy channel iron with a chunk of chain link fence attached to it. Channel is heavy enough to knock down any humps and the fence levels it all.
Know anyone that does sediment control/ excavation work? The chain link for super silt fence works well for a behind the lawn tractor size.
Shoot my daughter just gave away 50 yards of chain link fence On CL, post's and all you should be able to find what you need for free
If you could get an old David Bradley cultivator and rig it to the tractor where the deck goes that might work as a ripper. Sorry got a picture of this thing in my head. Don't need one myself but it might be a bad a$$ project to for someone that does.
A sheet of raised expanded steel works great. A 4x8ft sheet is around $125. #6, 1.5". Weighs around 100lbs or so. Toss on a couple blocks of concrete if more weight is needed. I've weighted the one we use to 500lbs or so. Yard tractor pulls it ok. Also have a spike teeth harrow that works ok on the looser gravel. On the hardpack it doesn't dig in much.
I just googled this. I've seen similar in action. I've used a York rake on my Fils kubota to fix gravel drives.
