Landscape Pulverizer Built For $25

Landscape Pulverizer Built For $25 TILLAGE EUIPMENT New Tools 29-1-20 "I don't like spending money on something if I can build it myself. And I saved at least $1,000 by building this machine," says Brent Pepper, Toney, Alabama, about the 5 1/2-ft. wide, 3-pt. mounted landscape pulverizer he built mostly from scrap metal. Pepper says he wanted a pulverizer like the ones used by landscaper contractors. However, when he priced the ones on the market he decided he couldn't justify the cost. "Comparable commercial models start at about $1,000 and, after building my own, now I know why. A lot of cutting, drilling, and welding is required." He used lengths of steel I-beam to build the pulverizer's main frame. It's equipped with 24 scarifers - 13 on front and 11 on back - that measure 9 in. long and dig up the ground. The scarifiers bolt to sections of angle iron that are welded to the frame. The roller on back is equipped with six rows of 3-in. long spikes, alternating 16 or 17 spikes per row. The spikes break up clods. Springs at each end of the machine apply down pressure to the roller. "It does the job of both a tiller and a landscaping box. I've used it on my own place to prepare the ground before seeding a lawn, and also to do work for friends and neighbors," says Pepper. "It busts up hard packed clay and fills in the low spots, leaving a nice, soft, smooth layer of dirt on top. "Most everything that I used was scrap metal. The bracket for the top link is a Yanmar tiller top link adaptor, and the bearings in the roller are from gauge wheels off a commercial tiller. My only out-of-pocket costs were for paint, and for nuts and bolts to hold the scarifers on. Total cost was about $25." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Brent Pepper, 21450 East Limestone Road, Toney, Alabama 35773 (ph 256 544-1620; email: brents.pepper@nasa.gov).

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