Box Scraper Doubles As A Road Grader

Box Scraper Doubles As A Road Grader MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Earth Movers 20-3-8 "It does the job of a commercial road grader that would cost thousands of dollars more than what we spent to build this," says Darin Boone, Pasco, Wash., about his home-built pull-type scraper. The 10-ft. wide scraper's blade tilts 42 degrees to the left or right and is fitted with hydraulically-controlled steel "end caps" that flip up out of the way to use it as a straight grader blade. The unit is equipped with eight hydraulic cylinders - two to raise or lower the blade, two to tilt each side of the blade up or down, two to angle the blade from side to side, and two to raise or lower the end caps. It rides on four 9.5 by 15 flotation tires. "Works great for making roadways because you can move soil toward the center of the road and later level it to create a æcrown'. By setting the blade straight across and putting the end caps back down the blade can be used like a box scraper to move dirt. "We use it to do custom work on irrigated land that has a lot of canals, water-ways, and ditch banks that farmers have to keep graded," says Boone, who built the scraper with his father-in-law David Brubaker. "We made it just 10 ft. wide be-cause we also use it to scrape manure out of our corrals and they have 10-ft. gates. We pull it with a Deere 7400 96 hp MFWD tractor which is a perfect match. It cost about $7,000 to build. The blade's 3/8-in. thick cutting edge is off an old road grader." Boone used 4 by 6, 5/16-in. thick steel tubing to build the rig's frame. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Darin Boone, 3834 Dogwood, Pasco, Wash. 99301 (ph 509 266-4423).

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