A rollover scraper with minimum

[tmar04]

Mike, you are amazing!! wish i had your talents. i have a friend who lives in latvia. near riga. just like you. keep it up. terry

 

[MJPetersen]

Thanks for the compliment. I do not know that I have extraordinary talent in this. One of the reasons that I documented the build is that I wanted to show what could be done with minimum tools and resources.

There was a recent post complaining about not finishing the thread. Since you resurrected this I will try to get some pics and give a final evaluation post. Overall I have been very pleased with the results. It is a good tool.

I have a former student who is from Latvia. He married a Polish girl and they hope to move here to help in our work here. He actually is of Russian decent and when he first came to the Bible college where I taught he had a CCCP (Soviet Socialist Republic) passport.

Mike

 

[BayouMan]

Hey Mike,
Just finished reading this thread again, and I want to echo what others have said. What a fantastic job on the rollover box. Looks better than a factory built one. Let us know how it works out. Did you make any interesting discoveries in the mystery pile behind your church?

Mike

 

[MJPetersen]

I have enjoyed using the imitation Gannon very much and it works well. I have smoothed the road in front of our church and my driveway, I smoothed the parking area at church and dug a sand pit in the back property. I have used the scarifiers to pull out old curbing and a thin poured sidewalk. I have a couple of things that I would change if I were redoing it today. 1) I found that I would get hung up with the scarifiers because I could not lift the box any higher. If I had put my pivot point a few inches further back I would have gained that much more in clearance. 2)I made the draft arms of the box (the arms that go from the square tube back to the pivot point.) out of 10 mm (3/8 ") material, and I wish that it were thicker, min of 12 mm. 3) I made my pivot point with a piece of pipe inside a piece of pipe with a back up 24mm bolt. I wish that I had used larger pipe for the pivot. I have not broken anything and I have not used it gently. So it is a success from my stand point, although it is really more blade than my traction can pull in our sand. I just run out of traction before I get the blade full or even nearly full. I believe that it could handle a 30 to 50 hp tractor.

I have done some exploratory surgery into the piles in the back, but have not fully leveled things out. I did not find anything too surprising; broken bricks, asbestos tiles, and a few pieces of rusty somethings that went into my metal recycle pile.

Mike

 

[bowtiebird]

Like all the pix great job, and if it isn't available locally then make something. I also live in an area were implements are plentiful. What til you see what I making, just bought a 1986 ? Yanmar 186 for $ 600.00 posting pix check it out. What a steal I got.

 

[sandman2234]

Mike,
Great work, as usual!
I wanted to make sure you are aware of the hazards of pushing with the fine implement in reverse, should you happen to catch something solid in those piles of mystery out back, there is a good chance you can bend your lift arms. I know the lack of traction helps, but it only takes once to bend your lift arms, so be careful.
You really need to quit putting model numbers on your implements. Some poor soul is going to come across one of your implements 100 years from now and spend hundreds of hours trying to figure out what company manufactured it, and how many others might have been built at the same time. If you didn't do such good work, they might realize that they are "homemade", but since you do good work, you are going to fool a lot of people.
David from jax

 

[MJPetersen]

Hi Dave,

This random guy dragged this thread out of the depths of 3 years ago. I bent my first lift arms with the scoop before I even made this rollover, but doubt sincerely that the ones that I have now will ever be bent with my tractor. I am aware of the possibilities, but do not worry about it much.

This was one of my early projects and I felt that it should be legitimized by a model number--:laughing:I can see how in the distant future someone could be scratching his head trying to figure it out.:confused2:

i was in Turkey and Georgia (the country) teaching and just got back. Hope all is going well with you.

Mike

 

[Missouri Pioneer]

Mugabe is parasiting on his country, and after he got in trouble, he blamed it on the (white) farmers. The farmers were banned, and black city slickers with no knowledge of farming (all folks that l*ck Mugabe's butt) were appointed to the farms. Our friend told us that the country is quickly running towards bankruptcy, food is allmost unaffordable, and the newspaper wrote last week that by the end of this year, and even more next year, zimbabwe will have a hunger problem as big as countries that are less developed.

(Sounds like South Africa all over again.)

I just ran across this old thread and was amazed at the fantastic job you did. Well, well done.

 

[2manyrocks]

It's a compliment to you that someone would bring this thread back to life.

Earlier this year, I arrived at an auction late, and there was a Gannon scraper there that had already sold. The consolation was that it was probably more than my Yanmar could handle anyway.