2013 - Volume #37, Issue #3, Page #20
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He Cuts Sod With Garden Tractor
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“I hook it under my Simplicity tractor where the deck mower would go,” explains Maddock. “When I get to the section of sod I want to remove, I just stand on the foot bars, and the cutting bar slices into and under the sod surface.”
The sod cutter has an A-frame hitch that hooks to the belly of the tractor. When making a second cut, the tractor wheels on one side will be riding where the sod was removed and the other wheels will be on top of the sod being cut. A pivot point on the hitch keeps the cutting bar parallel with the ground.
The 3-sided depth control section rides on two small wheels mounted to the sides of the frame. Steel rods are welded perpendicular to the sides and slightly behind the wheels. These are the foot bars.
Three sides of the cutting bar section are made with the same steel strap as the rest of the sod cutter. The fourth side is a straight cutting edge with rounded ends that prevent the edge of the sod from tearing.
“The wheels ahead of the cutting bar keep the bar level,” says Maddock. “The pivot point is the weakest point in the cutter. If I hit tree roots, it can break at the pivot point. Otherwise, it has worked well.”
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jerry Maddock, 29197 Standley Rd., Defiance, Ohio 43512 (ph 419 395-1594; jmachine@ayersvilletelco.com).
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