scarifier/ grubbing rake

[Taylortractornut]

I have a friend that was raised in Texas but hes relocated up here to MS. He has an old home place in Texas, iforget the area but its loaded with his fathers old junk yard collection and hes hauling off all the unusable iron. He has alot of 1/2 inch pipe some tin and long peices of rebar he wants to dig out of the ground before he sells on of the old lots. He has an old B JD and a 40 JD he's taking down there to work with. Im thinking something along the lines of a rock picker then WroughtnHarv's skid steer scarifier came to mind. I have also thought about a boulder claw like Degelman makes but a smaller 3 point version that has a mechanically opperated clamp. The goal of the machine is to just ru n the fingers through 2 inches of the soil to drag the metal up into a few windrows. I almost forgot the best part all this is to be built on a budget of 100 dollars lol. I have access to a few big cultivatrs and such i may use ome of them to make my feet. The budget isnt really strict but I liketo make something usable to do the job with and also I like a challenge.

 

[Soundguy]

A landscape rake and or a cultivator seem waaaaaay to flimsy to try to blade up 2" pipe and buried rebar. Think about a box blade with scarfier teeth.

If you are making it.. just weld some 4" fingers made of rebar onto a piect of pipe or i-beam.. then weld ut an a'frame and hitch pins to it. Throw or weld on some scrap iron for weight.. or use cinder blocks.. tie on with rope.. or weld a straight piece of rebar on, and stack the blocks over it.... or tie them on... should be virtually 'free' to make this at a junkyard, if he has a torch/chopsaw and a mig/stick welder.

Probably the bottom link pins are the only thing he needs to purchase. Does his B have powertroll and 3pt arms? Or the 40? Otherwise thes are gonna have to be drag-only implements..

Soundguy

 

[Taylortractornut]

I both have powertrol and 3 points. I figured a rake was too light i meant build a grubbing rake like the ones i build for dozers but a 3 point model. I got confused when i said cultivator i had been thinking of a chisel plow. I kinda have a few things in mind, one is a 4 prong ripper like a pavement and slab bucket for an excavator. There also alot 2 foot tall mesquite trees to be ripped up to.If i could get my lift back running to put my plate in the pattern torch id whip out a few sets of scarifier teeth and make a new new ripper bar. I wished there was a way to get an auxhilary hydraulic circuit off the tractor. I could make a supernice one but theres my challenge.

 

[Soundguy]

If it is the B your talking about.. you can use external hyds.. it will run off the powertroll lever. I have left the oem JD hyd plugs in the back of my 'B' as they are prone to oring leaks with repeated removal.. etc.. and instead added 2 2' lines off the side tapped plugs, and put quick disconnects on them.

(I've attatchd a pic of my B.. it is back before I restored it.. but I didn't have any other rear shots available.. but you should be able to see the hyd setup in this one.. lines are tapped into the side of the hyd manifold wher ethe oem plugs are. the taps were alreade there.. I didn't drill them or anything.. they were just capped. )

Works great for external hyds..

Soundguy