Building a Chainlink Harrow

UpstateNYMarine · Aug 29, 2007

Posted this in the build-it-yourself area as well:

Trying to clean up our land we bought here in New York and found several large rolls of chainlink. Pretty good condition just too beat up to make into a fence again. So I am looking to make a chainlink drag harrow for my JD 2320 out of some of it. Have a buddy that wants to make one as well in order to take some off my hands. I am looking for any pics or advice on how I should go about doing this. I have some ideas but was looking for others advice on what works best and lessons learned type of things.

Thanks in advance for the help guys.

Engine66 · Sep 1, 2007

I used a piece of chain link and some 4x4s on my 300' gravel driveway and it worked better than I thought. The piece of fence I had was about 6x4' so I bolted some scrap 4x4s together to make a box slightly smaller than the fence and wrapped the edges of fence up the sides of the box. I nailed the edges of the chain link in place and put a couple 2x4s across the center to hold some blocks. Put a couple eye bolts in the 4x4s and dragged this contraption around my driveway a few times. What I found was that the chain link holds up very well, keeps the box slightly above grade and allows the flow of gravel to travel. I even dumped gravel into the box and dragged it and the box released gravel into pockets and filled cracks. This thing also took care of all the weeds that were growing and dressed up the driveway. I just kept dragging, even doing u-turns and it worked out pretty good for some scrap stuff lying around.

I originally was not sure if it would work...thought about just laying blocks on the chain link, but after observing the box work as I dragged it, I realized it digs at the humps and fills the cracks. Give it a try...I think for the price and time spent, it's worth a try. Good luck.

JB4310 · Sep 2, 2007

Sounds like a good idea with the 4x4's, I was going to use an old chain link gate but it would probabbly be to light, I heard of old timers using a metal box spring from an old style bed which they say works good. JB.

dp5510 · Sep 4, 2007

Over the weekend i use a 5x5 piece of 1 inch thick steel cat walk grate. I pulled it behind the fourwheeler, and my dirt grade looks as smooth as a baseball diamond.