Old-timey New-fagled slip scraper

I'm sure that many of the younger and non farm folks won't know what a slip scraper is, but it is the way dirt was moved with
horses before tractors, scrapers, loaders, dozers etc. were invented. You can google it and see more of the real thing. I have a
real one at home in NY that I used behind a tractor years ago. We also made one from a 55 gal drum cut in half lengthwise to dig a
33 x 16 foot swimming pool (in pure sand) at our first house in Fla in 1972.

I have a couple piles of shredded trees/compost that I wanted to spread and that's a lot of shoveling and wheel-barrowing so
thought, without a tractor or anything here in Fla., what could I use to spread it. I had an old 100 lb propane tank out back and
an old hand truck meant to move 30 gal drums around the garage. No monetary investment involved so what do I have to lose. You can
see the results in the photos. It works ok but would be better with a bridle and longer flat bottom to carry more like the real
ones. One photo shows the scraper is in the background and a rope and pulley attached to a palm tree, to move the compost into a
blind corner. Hooked the wife up to the other end of the rope and hollered giddy-up but she couldn't move it so I had to let her
use the car.
for some reason I got 2 of the same and couldn't upload the other photos but you get the idea.

Hope it worked OK and she still talks to you. Ron Mn

That's a good looking home made fresno.
Richard in NW SC

Looks like a tumble bug to me.

How did you cut the tank without killing yourself?

The easy way is to fill it with water and cut with no or little air in it.

(quoted from post at 10:11:00 03/03/18) How did you cut the tank without killing yourself?

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I knew that someone would have to come up with that. I'm surprised that it took 16 hours.

It's been sitting for 4-5 years with the valve removed so it was well aired out and it was about an hour of cutting with a 4 1/2" grinder at 15 minutes at a time to let the grinder cool down.

It works ok but would be better with an extended flat bottom like the real ones, to carry more. Once it fills, it just starts pushing material and spilling off the sides like a straight blade would. For the little that I have to do, I'll just make more passes.

After 55 years, she's used to that kind of stuff from me.