3-Pt. Mounted "Wheel Rim Drag

3-Pt. Mounted "Wheel Rim Drag TILLAGE EUIPMENT Miscellaneous 28-1-3 Patrick Prom, Eden Prairie, Minn., made a 5-ft. wide, 3-pt. mounted landscape drag by welding together a series of car wheel rims. The drag is made out of two rows of rims - three in front and two in back. He laid the rims on a concrete floor and welded them together edge to edge. He used rectangular tubing and flat metal to build a 3-pt. bracket that bolts to the front row of rims. The rims are connected to the 3-pt. hitch by three short lengths of drag chains, which allow the rims to float up and down over uneven terrain. "I use it to grade my driveway. It does a super job," says Prom. "The nice thing about this design is that the rims can hold dirt. They scrape off dirt on the high spots and drop it into any low spots. Another advantage is that the rims are self sharpening. My nephew has even pulled my wheel rim drag behind his car and used it to level off gravel roads. It works best if all the rims are the same size. I use my Deere 485 garden tractor to pull it. However, it could be made much wider and pulled behind a bigger tractor. I made a Cat. 0 3-pt. hitch, but the same idea would work with a Cat 1 hitch. The important thing is that the rims are able to float. "Another advantage of this design is that the front row of rims lift up before the back row, so I can use the drag while backing up. I drop the back row of rims just enough to contact the ground and then back up and push ground backward into a corner or up against a wall." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Patrick G. Prom, 12661 Pioneer Trail, Eden Prairie, Minn. 55347 (ph 952 944-9266; email: p_prom@msn.com).

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