monkeybreath
Silver Member
I visited a NH dealer today in my journey towards tractorville - to see what they had and could put together, prices etc. I told him I wanted a FEL and box scraper . . . When we were discussing uses I had for a tractor, and I mentioned maintaining rolling roads on my rolling foothill property, he suggested I would have better luck with a drag scraper than with a box scraper. He indicated that with a box scraper it would be going up and down with the tractor - and it would have to be constantly raised and lowered to fit the situation. But he indicated with a drag scraper with wheels behind the box, it could lowered by hydraulics and would do a much better job leveling a road or area. Their large and level lot he indicated was maintained with a drag scraper. I did a search here but "drag scraper" did not show up. He showed me one and what he said seemed to make sense. The drag scrapers do not have scarifiers, however. I was assuming I would take the high spotts out of my roads with a box scraper and drag the dirt to the low spots and so on. But I am anything but experienced. Anyway, does any of this make sense ? (he also tried to talk me out of HST but that is another issue)