Not competing with George, but....

fixerupper · May 9, 2021

Here is my high dollar landscaping machinery. A neighbor and I cobbled together the roller a few years ago. Full of water it is approximately 5000 pounds. The drag is just two angle irons welded together using old scrap iron.

My box scraper is 12' wide and can give a 100 horse tractor a run for it's money but it's too big for a lot of the small areas I have. The blade does a nice job in wide open areas but these little rigs really shine when it comes to tight places with short turns. This is 1 1/2" road stone as it is called that I am leveling down. I have four 27 ton loads planned for this spring, maybe five. I don't know why I get such a kick out of piddling around doing this stuff but I could do it all day long and let someone else sit in the big cushy cab tractor doing field work. We had a nice easy 1" of rain yesterday. The ground is just soft enough to let me in this rock and it's a beautiful day to be outside anyway.

fixerupper · May 9, 2021

Forgot the picture! I have the smell of Marilyn's dinner cooking on my brain!

Jimmydog · May 9, 2021

Life is good. DC-?? threes I'm guessing...you're suppose to say as this is a tractor forum after all.

JD

fixerupper · May 9, 2021

SC. Had to stand pretty far away to get it all in

Geo-TH,In · May 9, 2021

I declare you are the WINNER. NO competing with
yours. Yours looks professionally made. I made
mine out of scrap mobile home frame. A 500 gallon
fuel oil tank I had to line the inside with
concrete because the metal on the tank wasn't
strong enough to hold up. I used Front spindles
from a Mazda. All free parts I found.
Mine weighs 4840# empty with the ability to add
250 gallons of water.
I've managed to lose most of my pics in phone so
I can't show you mine.

I made a 3 pt V shaped leveler. It works great
for filling ruts concrete truck left in my yard.
I use it on the Kubota. Put dirt in front bucket,
dump a little dirt near rut and leveler does the
rest. I have my yard up to 6 mph when mowing.
Previously 2.5 mph was a ruff ride.

Looks like you did a very good job. I'm no
competition.
geo.

SVcummins · May 9, 2021

Hobo,NC · May 9, 2021

How do you line the inside of a tank with concrete...

Geo-TH,In · May 9, 2021

Wasn't easy to line inside with concrete. I made
two cutouts where the 4 bung holes were. Ran re
bar long wise in 6 places. Put 2 2x6 every 60
degrees. Made one pour at a time. After 5 pours,
I formed up the ends and middle and poured the
ends and middle. Last pour capped off the last
side. Spot welded metal where I made 2 cutouts to
gain access to inside tank.

I put pipes between the 2 hollow parts so water
could get to both sections. The concrete held
each section together

That was one of my first retirement projects.
It's worked for over 15 years. It can turn white
rock on a sidewalk to flower.

It's complicated to explain. Took me a week do
do. I wasn't going to give up just because a 500
gallon fuel tank wasn't make of heavier metal.

Fixupper had better tank to work with. He's the
winner.

geo

Tubacase47 · May 9, 2021

On on the left is an DC< on the right a DC--both three's.

Tubacase47 · May 9, 2021

Thought I hit S for the one on the left.

fixerupper · May 9, 2021

George it took a lot more ingenuity to make your roller and you don't have to drain it every winter. This roller I have is an old 500 gallon anhydrous tank. The bearings are wheel hubs from an old disk. The frame and tongue is from the same disk. The tank came from my neighbor the frame steel came from me. His son did the welding. I have thought of filling it with concrete but it would be so doggone heavy my little Cases wouldn't be able to pull it. This afternoon I had the SC grunting and clawing trying to pull the roller up a small sudden slope. I was cruising along in third gear and in a fraction of a second I was almost stopped with the rear wheels digging up the lane. LOL

fixerupper · May 9, 2021

Both are SC. The one on the left is a 51 and the one on the right is a 48. Both of them start the first time over and sing a nice song when they are running. The SC on the left is the one I just bought. It is still tight as new. The only worry I have about is a possible bad head gasket or cracked head. A couple weeks ago I was pulling a 1600 gallon water wagon up the road with it and when I came to an up slope that made her grunt foam started coming out from under the radiator cap. When I removed the cap I found some slime of some sort on the underside of the cap. I have a hunch that slime is radiator sealer someone had added to patch it up.

Hobo,NC · May 9, 2021

I have bent this one up a bit its a long 300 gal tank I may try to get some concrete in it... I filled it full of use coolant so far it has not leaked...

https://forums.yesterdaystractors.c...storder=asc&highlight=roller&start=15

Geo-TH,In · May 10, 2021

The property I plan to sell is clay. I
would wait for a 2 inch rain before
rolling. The roller would flatten dirt.
Water was in front of roller and Ford
Jubilee was clawing up the sod. Roller
would put the sod back in place. Good
thing I lined 500 gallon tank with
concrete.
I couldn't use it if it weighed anymore.
No hills either. Be too dangerous to
even think of using it on a hill or near
a lake.
My roller's home is next to my new pole
barn.

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