Do You Think This Will Work???

John B. · Jul 2, 2013

I bought me a little one bottom subsoiler 3 weeks ago and I decided to make a bullet/enlarger for it. I finally decided on how to make it. I bought a plastic long neck funnel, cut part of the spout off at the bottom, bought a long eye bolt and a quart of resin with hardener. I put the eye bolt thru the funnel, mixed up the resin with the hardener then filled the funnel with the mixture and set it upright in a small bucket for a few days. This is how it turned out. I welded a small flat bar on the back end of it today. (The weld doesn't look good I know). I hope this bar will tell me where it is incase the assembly breaks loose from the ripper out in the field. I'm going to leave the plastic funnel on it, I thought this will help hold it together. I'm going to use a short chain to connect this to the ripper.

So Do You Think This Will Work???

It's been too wet here to try it the last few days. I can't wait to give it a try. I have about $40 invested in this little project...

FLOLDFORD · Jul 2, 2013

Only thing I see wrong is how fast the funnel will wear thru and then the resin. But it should work for awhile. Steel would have been better but hard to fabricate. I'm looking in the shop right now trying to figure out how I could build you one out of scrap metal. Bet I can find something at work tomorrow

John B. · Jul 2, 2013

FloldFord, I thought the same thing. It's hard to find something at least four inches thick let alone it be round. I guess a pyramid shape would work too. If this wears out I'm going to try concrete instead of resin next time if needed.

charlie n · Jul 2, 2013

What's the purpose of it?I guess I mean is what are you trying to accomplice.

LeonardWD45 · Jul 2, 2013

John how about using different size's of round flat stock 1/2in thick. Just layer it up so you have a steel cone, then weld it all together. The steel will eventually wear down to a cone.

Leonard

JMS/.MN · Jul 2, 2013

It"s going to wear out in no time flat, due to friction, Just take some heavy wall pipe of the desired diameter, torch some V"s out of one end, hammer them together to form a point, weld that, and weld a loop to that to pull it through the ground.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 2, 2013

My guess is the resin will break out before the funnel. Epoxy resin, with no fiberglass in it ain't real strong. Give it a whirl, and let us know what happens, WTH, might work better than us skeptics think!

Big Fat Herb · Jul 2, 2013

Years ago my brother built one and he just used half of a disk spool and welded a 3/8 chain to it then welded a connector to the shank worked perty good

FLOLDFORD · Jul 2, 2013

I believe I could make one out of a piece of 4" shaft and cut the taper on the big lathe in the machine shop at work. Drill and tap the end for the eyebolt. How long does it need to be? Not going to be cheap to ship it to you though

gtractorfan · Jul 2, 2013

It looks to me like you're thinking along the same line I did with this that I made for the 2 wheel walk behind in the garden. It pulls easy enough to work about 8" deep. I like to use it before planting where the rows go. I think what you've made will pull hard for what it does.

Ted in NE-OH · Jul 2, 2013

I think the eye of the eyebolt will unwind if pulled on.

Tx Jim · Jul 2, 2013

(quoted from post at 20:46:13 07/02/13) I think the eye of the eyebolt will unwind if pulled on.

I'll 2nd the eye coming apart unless it's welded.

Leroy · Jul 2, 2013

To me it sounds like the subsoiler you got a 3" mole would work better than a 4", a 4" might just be big enough to pull hard enough to bend your subsoiler. The old subsoilers that had a 4" mole were designed to pull with a tractor the size of a IHC W9 and it sounds like your subsoiler is not that heavy.

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