Homemade ATV Drag
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 เม.ย. 2018
- Maintaining the lawn with a homemade drag made from scrap metal. Little upgrades are needed and a stick welder comes in handy outside in the wind. Check it out!
The ATV I ride in this video is a 2002 Honda TRX500FA Foreman Rubicon.
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Pomade - Silent Partner (TH-cam Audio Library) - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
Love your welding skills, much better than last time welding your equipment I am convinced. Thank you for sharing your amazing video. God bless you and your family
Now I'm going out to mow the yard with my garden tractor. You made it look like fun!
I actually really enjoy mowing the lawn using the ATV. One more reason to hold a handlebar in my hands being a motorbike enthusiast. :D
I have a similar problem on my pastures every spring and I took a 6 foot tall by 8 foot long piece of chain link fence and stapled it to a 6 foot long telephone pole on either end of the fencing and used a chain to drag the setup by one of the telephone pole ends and this smooths it out wonderfully. The same thing smooths seed beds out beautifully also after planting.
The fence will nicely grind down these dirt piles like a cheese grader. Have to try that in the future. ;)
You have a beautiful country.
Puts a whole new dimension to "lawn stripping"! Awesome dude
..Good job Donn. I took 5-6 large car tires and run a cable thru them. Made a loop with a couple of clamps for the ball. I works Prety Good!! If i need more weight i'll throw a large truck tire on...!!
Tires can be used for everything. :D
That does a nice job!
My wife is from Estonia 👈 Marjamaa) i look forward to my summer holidays in this amazing little place ever year!!
People with OCD, like me, would be going crazy at how you are raking your land, haha. You did alright with your welding mate, just remember, to have a good weld with good penetration the metal has to be clean, the more you prep your metal the better the work thats all, but otherwise awesome job
Yes, another video. I always love your videos no matter what it is. Keep up the good work.
Cheers man!
Enjoyed the video, the projects and really enjoy your sence of humor. We could have way too many beers together. All the best!
Thanks man, and thanks for watching. I do love beer to be honest. Would like that! Thanks for watching.
With stickwelding you're better off dragging the weld rather than pushing it. It looks like you're pushing the weld in the video. With mig/mag you push the weld, but with sticks you have to drag it otherwise the slag will get trapped inside the weld making it weak.
Stick welding can be so frustrating :/nice video, it works amazing!
It is definitely frustrating for me since I don't know what I'm doing. :D But guys who do know they definitely enjoy it. I did too, at the end when the weld came out better and better. It's just weird that you have to feed in the electrode with the same hand you're holding the "torch", in this case the electrode holder. When using MIG/MAG you just point and press the switch and weld will happen by itself. Props to the old school MMA welders out there. ;)
Turn up the amps for the thickness of metal you have also a rule of thumb is for every thousandths of an inch of the electrode size go up 1 amp
ex 1/8 .125 thousands of an inch
The amps should be 125 amps
This little machine was already working on the edge of it's capabilities. :D
nice idea for using an atv.
I use ATV for everything. ;) Well, almost.
Great welder the #ESAB, the best in argentina, excellent work
ESAB has good products. I use ESAB welding wire in the MIG/MAG. I've tried different brands but it's the best I've used so far.
Pretty good!
Good job 😎 🙋
Cheers! Thanks for watching! ;)
Can’t let those mole hills become mountains.
Looks to be a very functional drag to knock down the mole hills.
You probably would “enjoy” stick welding a little more if you had a more powerful welder but thick corroded material does cause enough problems at the best of times.
Still turned out Pret-ty Good.
These mole hills have become an issue on the pastures that are not maintained by us anymore. We used to drag the whole land in the Spring time before cutting the hay in the summer so the ground stayed fairly even. Now it's bumpy as hell. Only plowing or heavily leveling it with heavy equipment would save it in the future. The power on the welder was turned up as much as possible. Worked fairly nice considering its size and carry-on capability. Also the electrodes weren't kept in a dry and warm place, that might have caused a couple of issues while welding. :D
Pretty cool. I'd put a hitch on the back of the grader, then hook a roller behind it.
It's a good idea. (Y)
Very good
Great video 👍 thanks ✌️ maybe if the grader/ blade was set at an angle like a tractor or construction one it would be less strain on arc or more effective? I don’t know just wonder🤔👍
You could in corporate a lawn rake also at the back ?
Iam a big stick welder fan! When your sticking like that add more heat! Are you using 6011 rods? Call them farmer Rods ! If it will arc it will weld no grinding required lol! I have a good 220 mig works awsome on new metal but as ya know not worth a shit on rusty stuff.I have welded stuff more than once beautiful welds .fel, apart when I picked it up lol
I have a mole problem also. I hear there is a natural mole repellent but I cant remember the name right off hand. Great work, I will be making something similar for those pesky moles.
I bet the Storks that come back for Summer will show these moles some manners and thin the herd. They will eat and kill anything on their path.
I wish they would come over to my place, lol. Here they don't have any natural predators. Cats are our only line of defense.
In Ireland we have versions of these for tractors and we call them land levellers
I actually have the proper three point hitch attached tools (levelers, graders etc) for tractors but hooking them up takes so much time. So using ATV is a really fast way of getting rid of these piles.
That your ATV is one hell of working horseman, you replace Tractor with that ATV, let he serve you well for many years :) P,s ESAB is the best welding machine that money can buy, i have experience with ESAB oh boy in shipyard :)
Although I have a couple of tractors in my command I've chosen to use the ATV for most of the lighter work I do. And in the woods it is irreplaceable when you don't want to cut pathways to get through the trees with a full size tractor. ESAB is pretty neat. I've used Hyundai welding wire before and it was bad, ESAB wire in comparison is smooth and don't spatter at all compared to Hyundai.
Do you have any other ATV accessory plans? Those are really cool to see built from scratch. Like a roller compactor or something.
I'm thinking about building an aerator roller for the lawn I can pull with the ATV, or a 3 point hitch I can use for other equipment on ATV. But I will do that in the future. ;)
Jesus! You have an army oh moles in your backyard!
Yes, those bastards!
What causes the dirt to lift up like that? Moles, frost, skunks?
Moles are doing that. I searched for a translation for our equivalent word for "mole" in English but didn't find it at first thus didn't clarify this in the video. They are quite a problem for the lawn and will ruin the pastures if they're not graded every Spring since these piles will grow through with weeds and create little hard bumps and making the pastures dreadful to ride on.
TheCrookHook it looks like moles
Flattening the molehills doesn't get rid of the animals. Only catching them is the best solution. Or taking away their food by spreading certain chemicals, which is not environmentally friendly of course.
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Donn!! 😃🤩❤
Nice good to finally see some stick work. What causes all those piles like that?
Moles.
Little bastards
Oh how I hate moles. Got them bad in my barn yard. Top left of the closing scene....did you edit that in?
This was my father walking back and forth tinkering on his own project. ;)
And that is how Crop Circles are made ha ha
You've invented a mole-hill flattener.
Watch a video on stick welding
I got a 40 ft drag for my tractor
Maybe add a roller with some spikes to act as an aerator? It could be detachable, add to the back side?
There is that possibility, yes. ;)
Moles, beavers, drone shots making your ATV driving like a Roomba - and the joys of stick welding :-D
Was that your grandpa operating with some brushes in the background?
I borrowed the drone for this aerial shot. Really nifty thing. Probably would like to get one in the future for traveling or something, or for whenever I can bust open some beaver dams again. Would be epic to see it from the air. Stick welding thick material isn't that bad if it's possible to practice for awhile but there are guys who do miracles with stick and weld very thin material. Props to them. :D Yup, that was my grandfather. He's still active with his chainsaw at the age of 85. :D
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you need a hotter box to keep burning through the corrosion even tho you ground it down... thicker metal needs more power/heat..... ?? what stick number were you using 6011, 6013, 7018 looked to be 5/16ths dia.???
I'm a complete dumbass when it comes to stick welding. I just grabbed the welder and a couple of electrodes I laid my eyes on, turned the welder up to eleven and started melting metal. :D Any questions about the electrodes or the machine itself will confuse the heck out of me even more. :D I do have a really thick book on how to MMA weld properly but do you think I've read it? :D I should do it. In the future. Probably. Maybe.
if it holds for you then its solid !! work on friend! waiting for your next vid. cheer's...........
How many acres of land do you have, Is it not better to mow and bale it instead.
I rent out most of the land and they do bale it to some extent. But I like it when the grass is cut low near the house and I mow regularly 4.1 hectares / 10.1 acres of grass using the ATV and the homemade front mount mower. If I figure out how to market the fine grass locally I will start collecting and baling it to earn money with it.
the grass thinks the new design is "pretty good!"
you get alot of use out of those two grinders, make sure to check the brushed time to time.. if they get too short the grinder will still work but itll spark alot to the commutator and ruin the motor.. 6$ brushes can save a 100-200$ grinder.. they tend to last 200+ hours of use though
I've never checked the big angle grinder brushes - thanks for reminding me that! I replaced the brushes on the previous smaller grinder but the rotor was already bad and it started to eat the brushes. Eventually it died altogether. But I think what got to it was cutting brick. Even though I used a filtering cover on the tail stock to keep the brick dust from entering the motor it still wasn't enough. Now I just avoid cutting brick with the angle grinders.
Your cats need to get to work on those varmints!
Looks like you have a bad pocket gopher problem!
while I was rebuilding it I would've made it twice as wide.
I'm pulling it with the ATV and for the size of the ATV the area of the drag creates drag in proportion with the pulling power of the ATV. I've also pulled it up hill on rough terrain and had some wheel spin. It is also nimble when it's narrower in the garden between the trees. But for the large pastures you're right, more coverage would be better.
Why do the piles of dirt come out from the ground? How ?
The moles dig little tunnels in the ground and push out the excessive dirt.
Need more angle... and more cowbell.
Just use a roller. That way you don't spread the dirt and also less stress on your ATV saving fuel.
You have to catch that mole ASAP. :). It ruin's your lawn. :)
Yes!
Seems like it’d be easier to trap the moles
I'm gonna go through different ways of getting rid of the little piles of dirt. Trapping might be one of them if other ways don't make any difference.
Donn DIY we harvest grass seed, these mounds of dirt prohibit us from shipping to certain countries. They get in our windrows at harvest time an then into the bags that eventual get sold wholesale. We’ve tried everything out there. Trapping is the only solution. We pay 20 bucks a critter and the trapper levels the mounds by hand. Good luck in your experiment.
If more farmers would drag their fields, of cattle persuasion, their fields would be more useful as grass. If the cattle paddies remain, only bad grass grows, and cattle will not eat from that type cow patty. Been there, done that! And NEVER clean the metal to weld, the iffy welds will thrill, later!
Lol! Today I’m stuck welding and it’s gonna suck! Ha! Ditto.
Haa! I feel for you. :D
Why did you stick-weld it and not weld it the nomal way?
He is outside and you can't MIG weld outside, because the wind blows away your shielding gas(es).
Also stick is a lot cheaper and better for "dirty" welds
ha! weld the 'normal' way
Yeah, I'm confused. Since when did you need electricity to weld? My normal oxy-acetylene torch doesn't plug in...
Atticus Draco i'm sorry
I think you need to get rid of the molesfirst and foremost. Lol
I think you're right. ;)
Рассмешил ты конечно со своим электродом. Magdeburg 7.10.19
Put a half a stick of Juicy Fruit gum on each pile you will devastate the Gophers 80%
And the find that every thousands trick only works for 7018 try that with 6010 6013 7014
need more heat to weld
It was all the heat that little welder could put out. Once I got the arc started it melted the metal great. ;)
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Why not just use a roller?
Must be a heavy roller to push these piles of dirt level to the ground. Using a roller after dragging would give probably a better result. ;)
Donn DIY Fair enough! How about a video making a roller with a blade in front? I’ve seen blade rollers before that would be a really cool
Video! Love your videos!
Need more heat. The welding should sound like popcorn popping steadily.
CLEAN YOUR METAL!!!!! If you can eat off of it. . . you can weld it!!!
be good for fire ants
I think you did pretty well because that welding machine is a peice of crap, a total waste of money! I hate to weld with those!!!! If you can afford a Kemppi Minarc 150, then you does´nt have to search for another welding machine anymore, they really are GREAT!
And a tip when you stick weld, do´nt rush it, you shuld have a molten puddle behind the stick at all time, about 3 times bigger than the thickness of the welding rod. And second tip, do´nt rush it! ;)
We got this welding machine for free. It's my father's. I can use it when I want and as you realize I do it not very often. We do have a huge generator based MMA welder which is an animal and you can basically cut metal with it but it's not as portable as this ESAB one I used. I won't rush it next time. ;)
Make a hare. It will dig a little deeper.
I'm planning on making a drum with knifes on it so it will create little openings in the lawn when rolling. It will be attached to the drag. It's supposed to aerate the lawn or something.
A haro would dig deeper but he doesn’t want to till up his lawn which is why it has skis on it. He only wants to knock down the little mole hills before they become mountains.
Vole, water rat, mole or??
Stick welding is not any more difficult that TIG / MIG, clean surfaces and steady hand (you could do with a needle hammer and / or a proper slag hammer) - you seem to manage a lot of different skills, no reason for "down talking" yourself - interesting channel, tryin' my best to check out all videos while at work (home office)
Не электродом варить ты не умеешь сразу видно привык до хорошего. Но видос у тебя классные!