Help finding link to box scraper with guage tire.

[olthumpa]

Someone on OTT started a thread about modifications to a box scraper where they added a tire to the back of it to help in leveling out gravel. I have done several searches without any luck and OTT is running so slow for me today that continuing to do searches is impractical. If anyone remembers the thread, could you please post a link.

Thanks

 

[Diydave]

Youtube search homemade wheeled box scraper. Terraplane is a manufactured one, I bet there are others. You might be able to do it cheap, with a pair of boat trailer jacks, you know the ones with wheels on the bottom...

 

[olthumpa]

Youtube search homemade wheeled box scraper. Terraplane is a manufactured one, I bet there are others. You might be able to do it cheap, with a pair of boat trailer jacks, you know the ones with wheels on the bottom...

Thanks for your reply.
I have looked at some videos on YOUTUBE but did not see the design I was looking for. The Terraplane is a nice design but at least the ones I looked at needed hydraulics to work. Someone on OTT posted some pics of how they added a tire that was several feet behind the box scraper, like the tire on a bush hog, and was able to adjust the height using an adjustable top link attached to a bracket they fabed on the box and the box tube the tire was attached to. This configuration also greatly improved the effectiveness and ease in grading a driveway/road. With the tire behind the box scraper, on level stretches it would prevent the box from digging in with out any input from the operator. When you came to a high spot it would cut the top off and carry the fill to a low spot and deposit it there. I was hoping to use their basic design instead of reinventing the wheel. Pun intended.

You mean the wheels are actually supposed to be on the bottom? If they are not on the top, how do you increase the down pressure?

Thanks again for your reply.

 

[Daren Todd]

How about using a set up similar to a finish mower? Either find some larger tires on casters or make some mounts for a couple of wheel barrow tires. Then you can weld a slightly larger piece of pipe to the sides of the box blade. Then use shims and a pin to set your height

 

[coachgeo]

hmmm.. so far not found box blade with Gauge wheel but found a rake on here with one that someone added. Hope it helps

http://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14360&highlight=grader+blade+wheel

 

[coachgeo]

Here is one on a scraper blade. Not box.. still might help you

http://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17058&highlight=blade+wheel+height

 

[olthumpa]

Thank you Daren and Coachgeo for your replies.

coachgeo, I did find those two links but thanks for posting them. The guage wheel on a rake by gpreuss is quite similar to the design I am trying to replicate. The post with the box scraper/blade had a few nuances that made it better IMHO and those are what I am trying to find.

Daren, your suggestion does give me an idear using two tires instead of one. It would mean obtaining some additional supplies, not a big deal though. I have most of the steel already cut and had planed on using a re purposed tire -swivel and square steel tub from a retired bush hog. I am going to use a top link turnbuckle to do the height adjustment similar to the setup in coachgeo's link for the rake.

The advantage of what I am trying to replicate is that by removing two pins the tire, swivel, square steel tub and the turnbuckle are all removed from the box leaving only four tabs that hold the two pins and two pieces of angle iron welded to the back of the box in the center.

Thanks again for your replies and giving me something to think about.