“Dozer Rail” Drag Leaves Field Smooth

“Dozer Rail” Drag Leaves Field Smooth TILLAGE EUIPMENT Harrows Lindsay Jay Gillis built a drag out of a long 4-in dia pipe and a pair of old dozer rails off a Caterpillar D-4 bulldozer with the grouser pads removed The 14-ft wide drag is 6 1/2 ft long     Gillis uses a Farmall 400 tractor and pulls it with chains from the front two corners hitched to the drag pipe     “The drag floats with the contour of the field and helps smooth the ground and spread manure piles ” says Gillis “I also use it during the spring in fields where cattle have spent the winter I can tow it straight behind the tractor or angle it in either direction ” he says The dozer rails are connected to the pipe and to each other by chains that run under 3-ft lengths of 6-in channel iron The channel irons are bolted on between the pipe and rails and between the 2 sets of rails using existing holes “The chains are connected at both ends by eye bolts and do all the pulling The channel irons are there mainly to keep the rails level instead of folding upward over rough ground ” says Gillis “For anyone who has very rough ground the track from a larger dozer could be used ” He says his home-built drag didn’t cost much “I already had the channel irons and a dozer with worn out tracks I got the pipe from an old gas line that ran across our property ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Lindsay Jay Gillis P O Box 198 1051 Maiden St Beallsville Penn 15313 ph 412 997-2775

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