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Do you use a drag to smooth your roads, driveways, etc?? The drag in the trailer is mine, it’s 8 feet long, built this 10 foot one yesterday afternoon for a guy to smooth dirt after he discs and plants his oat patches. I made it so he can cut a foot off each end if he decides it’s too long. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/N0B4swkF/IMG-0893.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/2jQXf2D0/IMG-0892.jpg) screen capture windows 7
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For roads / drove ways those “land plane” style 3 pt drags worn well.
For seed, I’ve got several homemade drags.
One made of old drill pipe and sucker rod for my tractor.
One made of chain link / cyclone fence for my SxS.
Dave
�The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.� Lou Holtz
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I've got a 16' cattleguard, made of railroad track.
We flip it over and drag fields with it. Sure knocks down the gopher mounds.
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon.
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For my driveway I use a Land Plane Grading Scraper.
For repairing hog damage, I've tried a number of things. Most recent is a railroad tie/chain link fence contraption that bounces around and does a poor job.
I'll be looking at making one like yours, Hanco.
Thanks.
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LOL...
My roads are so tough I would shear the fang on a D-7 ripper.
If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
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For my driveway I use a Land Plane Grading Scraper.
For repairing hog damage, I've tried a number of things. Most recent is a railroad tie/chain link fence contraption that bounces around and does a poor job.
I'll be looking at making one like yours, Hanco.
Thanks. My friend wants it to use for that also, hogs jack up his pastures a good bit. He traps them hard, but you know it’s impossible to get rid of them. If you lived closer, I would build it for you Mr Boone. It took me about 4 hours to make the ten footer.
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That's a good drag! For covering oats and such, I generally either drag 2 16' welded wire panels attached to a pipe, and pulled behind the tractor or Mule with a chain centered from both ends to the hitch point, or a ridged harrow that's adjustable as to how much it engages the ground to level and cover. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/AAAxyEc.jpg)
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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That's a good drag! For covering oats and such, I generally either drag 2 16' welded wire panels attached to a pipe, and pulled behind the tractor or Mule with a chain centered from both ends to the hitch point, or a ridged harrow that's adjustable as to how much it engages the ground to level and cover. You are a real farmer-rancher, we be amateurs!!!
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Our shooting range uses a homemade drag made of railroad track. Works just fine for our purposes.
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Our shooting range uses a homemade drag made of railroad track. Works just fine for our purposes. I bet it does, that track is heavy. They had a drag in south Texas built out of track to fuuuck over brush. They pulled it with a dozer. It was about 40 feet wide.
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Just pull an old box spring around…😁
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Retired cross tie with a piece of retired utility pole behind.
The tie is heavy enough to bust up clods and smooth out humps.
The round utility pole does a really nice job of just smoothing out the rough spots.
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Got the damn thing finished, he needs to come get it. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/3NNQh61V/IMG-0968.jpg)
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