Adding guide wheels to blade or rake

   / Adding guide wheels to blade or rake
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#21  
The First Choice has a gauge wheel kit (see above) does have wheel bearings and grease zerks on both the wheel and the pivot. Shipping is more than it would be for the King Kutter one from TSC. Carver Equipment does have a good price on their First Choice landscape rakes right now and if I bought the gauge wheels with a rake, then there's no additional charge for shipping the wheels. I think I could get a fair amount of use out of a rake, but I need to decide if I would get enough use to make it worth the expense. One advantage of the First Choice rakes is that I can get it in <font color=blue>blue</font color=blue>!

I also just got a 10% off coupon in the mail for TSC. So, I could get their trailer jacks and wheels for 10% off. I need to go back and see if I can add a grease zerk to their 10" wheel and if so, that might be a good solution for my grader blade.

Another option is to get the trailer jacks at TSC and get the wheels from <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.castersupply.com/NAV/pneumatic.html>castersupply</A>. I just found them doing a web search, so I don't know anything about them. I called and these casters do have bearing and grease zerks on both the wheel and the caster. They didn't know what the shipping cost would be unless I ask them for an official quote.
 
   / Adding guide wheels to blade or rake
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#22  
Well, I'm still trying to come up with something and haven't yet. I did some measuring and realized the idea of mounting wheels, except some very small ones, directly to the back of the blade will not work because the blade is only 13 1/2" tall and even 8" caster wheels are about 12" high overall, so there's no room for the trailer jack or whatever to mount. This means I need to find a way to mount the wheels on a bracket that is up above the blade, like on the landscape rake in Von's picture above. But, doing that would mean I'd have to take the brackets off in order to reverse the blade, which I'd rather not do. The First Choice landscape rake has accounted for this by leaving room for the caster wheels brackets to go under the 3pt bracket (see attached picture), but my Farm Star grader blade only has about 1/4" of clearance, so I can't do it that way.
 

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   / Adding guide wheels to blade or rake #23  
Danny, I just have to take one side off if I need to rotate the rake. The bracket is held on be two bolts, so it only takes a few min. to change. I find that I don't have to spin it around that often, so its not a big deal for me.
 
   / Adding guide wheels to blade or rake
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#24  
Von, That's a good point about only having to take one side off! Sometimes the obvious is not obvious.
 
   / Adding guide wheels to blade or rake #25  
I would like to claim that my engineering abilities are the reason for our gauge wheels rotating under the hitch, but actually, it was just a lucky coincidence. After the design prototypes, when I was checking them out I remembered some folks need to turn the rake around, and as luck would have it they worked. If they had not, I would have had to redesign the brackets to attach from under the rake frame to get the additional clearance. Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good!!
 
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#26  
You should never have admitted that! I was sooooo impressed with FC's foresight. I appreciate your honesty though!
 

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