I get 3,000 pounds how about you?

[Junkman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Wrong tool for the job. Even at 750#, it will probably bounce. When encountering a 10# rock, it will surely dent - maybe even rupture. At that point $75 will look cheap.

Ever think about rentals?

//greg// )</font>
I have a similar roller and it has never ruptured or and as for denting, the only dents in it are the ones that were there when I bought it. It fell off the truck and one end is slightly flattened. Never had a problem with it rolling my lawn to get out the winter wrinkels...

 

[Laminarman]

Junkman

Did you rig your roller to pull from the drawbar? If so, how did you do it? If I get a six foot roller (still cheap, even new) I may saw off the front attachment thingy and weld on a heavier duty extension to tie into the drawbar.

 

[dummy]

Aren't they the guys pocket protectors were invented for so their slide rule and pencil didn't ruin the shirt Mom just ironed for them?

 

[Egon]

Volume = 22/7 x radius squared x length [ Units in feet will give cubic feet.]

FreshWater = 62.4 pounds /cubic foot. [ If memory is corecct ]

Think the weight would be about 780 pounds.

Egon

 

[Gomez]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( There aren't many good Civil Engineering jokes.

)</font>

My brother-inlaw has a PhD in Civil Engineering, but he'd have a hard time changing a tire /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif (book smart/not too sharp with tools). I think that's hilarious. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[greg_g]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Junkman

Did you rig your roller to pull from the drawbar? If so, how did you do it? If I get a six foot roller (still cheap, even new) I may saw off the front attachment thingy and weld on a heavier duty extension to tie into the drawbar. )</font>
Still the wrong tool for the job. A wider version of the lawn roller is still a lawn roller. Unless something has changed since you started this thread, you're trying to finish a deer plot.

There was a 9' cultipacker - the RIGHT tool for the job - for sale in the paper yesterday for two hundred bucks. By the time you get done buying a 6' lawn roller, modifying the hitch, then hitting that inevitable 10# rock in your freshly turned deer plot - I think $200 might look real good in hindsight.

//greg//

 

[Laminarman]

Greg

Believe me, if I could find a $200 cultipacker I'd have it right away. I can't find one anywhere. Only ones I can find (6' minimum) require shipping and are all over $400. I'll keep looking. Looks like for now I'll plow, disc and drag harrow, and let the rain settle it a little. These will be sorghum, clover and brassica's plots, so I'm not into spending a ton of money to get my venison and big deer. I enjoy the projects however and appreciate your feedback. If anyone sees a cultipacker within a few hours drive of Upstate NY please let me know. I'm borrowing the disc and plow for now, but my friend doesn't have anything to pack the dirt. Deal was I come up with a roller implement and we share every year. We're both cheap.

 

[Poppa]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( There aren't many good Civil Engineering jokes.

)</font>

I don't know, some of the things that have made me laugh the loudest were put on paper by a civil engineer.
/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Not that there is anything wrong with that. And, Some of my best friends are civil engineers. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Mike

 

[Soundguy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( There aren't many good Civil Engineering jokes.
)</font>

Sure there are.. its just they are usually brought up by ME's.

Here's one for the group..

CE's build tragets.. ME's build the toys that destroy those targets.

Soundguy

 

[Soundguy]

Hmm.. a slide rule.. I think that will hit Ce's.. Me's.. and Ae's
( rocket science. etc ).. An EE might have som sort of pocket reference.. .. and a Chem-E is probably not using a pocket protector.. but rather a full body protector.. ( lab coat.. )


Oh yeah.. and that was more to save the pocket from an INK pen.. not as much a pencil.. but whatever's available.. etc

Soundguy