jpmillermatic
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I have always needed to add gravel to the driveway every couple of seasons due to plowing the snow and the gravel off the driveway every winter...add to that the spring thaw where the mud and dirt swap places with the gravel and it gets pretty expensive to have a truckload of gravel brought in. (not as much as black top)...but the pot holes and mud are really annoying
So I did some research and found a few products out there that dig up the buried gravel and smooth out the path behind with a flat bar or wire mesh material. They are pretty expensive for a good one, so I decided to make my own from recycled (okay, found) materials or bits and pieces I had laying around the garage.
Here is the sketch I came up with : I wanted to unit to drop solidly on the ground but also be height adjustable and towable over the lawn without digging IT up...so I designed a way to raise and lower a set of wheels for those times when I need it...
I still have to add the wheels and wheel brackets and hook up all the linkages ect...but its coming along...
I can add up to two cinderblocks for more weights, which it does need. The unit will lower and raise by using a trailer tongue jack without the wheel which will be operated by a cordless drill...(in theory, anyway...it works by hand so far...)
I did buy some inexpensive pillow blocks from Northern tools..for 8.00 each they are great!
The frame is made from old bed frames, angle iron and some found steel that I took out of our local park which I found buried for what looks like 30-40 years.....Im sure they werent going to use it...in fact the LAST generation forgot about it much less this generation!.
let me know what you guys think...
JP
So I did some research and found a few products out there that dig up the buried gravel and smooth out the path behind with a flat bar or wire mesh material. They are pretty expensive for a good one, so I decided to make my own from recycled (okay, found) materials or bits and pieces I had laying around the garage.
Here is the sketch I came up with : I wanted to unit to drop solidly on the ground but also be height adjustable and towable over the lawn without digging IT up...so I designed a way to raise and lower a set of wheels for those times when I need it...
I still have to add the wheels and wheel brackets and hook up all the linkages ect...but its coming along...
I can add up to two cinderblocks for more weights, which it does need. The unit will lower and raise by using a trailer tongue jack without the wheel which will be operated by a cordless drill...(in theory, anyway...it works by hand so far...)
I did buy some inexpensive pillow blocks from Northern tools..for 8.00 each they are great!
The frame is made from old bed frames, angle iron and some found steel that I took out of our local park which I found buried for what looks like 30-40 years.....Im sure they werent going to use it...in fact the LAST generation forgot about it much less this generation!.
let me know what you guys think...
JP