Box Scraper Makes Driveway "Runway Smooth"

Box Scraper Makes Driveway "Runway Smooth" MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Earth Movers 27-4-10 When he needed to level a newly graded yard, Marvin Bauer, Hastings, Minnesota, went to his shop and made himself a box scraper. "I put it together in about a day," he says. Bauer used a 10-in. I-beam as a main frame, and added a 3 point hitch and some 3/16-in. thick plate steel for sides. For the scraper blade itself, he used a blade from a highway department snowplow. "I bought three used snow plows for $30 each, so I already had them on hand when I decided to make this," he says. "I cut them apart and used flat steel and one of the blades to make the scraper." He decided to use a turnbuckle for the top link so he could adjust the height of the blade. Bauer's scraper is 9 ft. wide and about 18 in. deep from front to back. Mostly due to the I-beam, it weighs about 1,500 lbs. It'll make a 2-in. cut through packed gravel with no problem when used behind his 1850 Oliver. "It'll grade the roughest driveway ærunway smooth' in one or two passes. "It's great for scraping the driveway and filling in ruts and holes," Bauer says. "You could level anything with it." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Marvin Bauer, 10215 190th Street East, Hastings, Minn. 55033 (ph 651 437-5068).

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