PILOON
Super Star Member
---ABOUT THE WEAR PROBLEM
We built a scraper years back that was basically kinda an open 'Z' affair from 6" X 6" wood stock.
The three 'blades' were faced with 3/8 X 4" common mild flats and lag bolter every 10" to the face.
We dragged that for 10 years over 3 miles every 2 weeks or so.
The wood rotted before the flats wore barely 20%.
We dragged it with an old Willis and used a 12" tire as an 'in line' SHOCK ABSORBER
The tire would streatch before yanking the bumper.
Worked great!
A little faster was more efficient than real slow, I recall.(probably 7-8MPH)
The topping would get skimmed and travel from left to right down to second blade and right to left to 3rd blade where it traveled again left to right.
Neatly filled all the depressions for another 2-3 weeks.
Oh The things we do! LOL
We built a scraper years back that was basically kinda an open 'Z' affair from 6" X 6" wood stock.
The three 'blades' were faced with 3/8 X 4" common mild flats and lag bolter every 10" to the face.
We dragged that for 10 years over 3 miles every 2 weeks or so.
The wood rotted before the flats wore barely 20%.
We dragged it with an old Willis and used a 12" tire as an 'in line' SHOCK ABSORBER
The tire would streatch before yanking the bumper.
Worked great!
A little faster was more efficient than real slow, I recall.(probably 7-8MPH)
The topping would get skimmed and travel from left to right down to second blade and right to left to 3rd blade where it traveled again left to right.
Neatly filled all the depressions for another 2-3 weeks.
Oh The things we do! LOL