DRIVEWAY SCRAPER

[PILOON]

---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

 

[RonMar]

I am making one along the lines of a Duragrader/Big Boy. The 6" angle I am using for the cutters will have a 1/4" plate welded across the opening. This will stiffen it up and I will weld a larger extra bead along the leading edge as hardening

 

[William McNett]

I would love to have that DXF or DWG file
I've tried to convert both PDF's to CAD so I can re-scale it to a smaller size (Cat 0) to work with what I have.

Thanks,
Bill