![]() Now depending on how you are going to mount it and with what material, you will need to add that dimension to the height of your uprights. That measurement is the height of your uprights. Measure the height of your blade and deduct your teeth and tubing. you will need to add in some gussets to support your teeth they should be about 4" in length. they should be about the same in length from the bottom of the tubing the depth of the teeth should just exceed your tubing by 2". The teeth should be made from 1.250 material depending on your use and how long you want it to last will tell you what grade of metal I use AR400 plate, space your teeth about 10"-12" apart. Your rakes main body should be 5x5x1/2 square tubing cut for your blades width. This is what I do for a living, but I will help you out. I use 1' material cut at 5" wide and about 10" in length x4 pcs burn a 2" hole in the plates and your uprights and use a 1 15/16 pin to lock them in place you will have to add a piece of 3x2 pipe about 2" in width for a lock collar for the pin drill 1/2 or 9/16" holes in both collars and pins to hold them in place. Thanks This is what I do for a living, but I will help you out. Any suggestons would be greatly appreicated. Do any you guy'/gal's got a design, material and teeth I would need for a 8' wide unit ? Cant find one around here to copy. here are links to pics, I will not post anymore because it is a pita to resize them all for this website.After pricing a root rake for my for my JD 450G dozer my CFO (wife) strongly suggested I use" that shop full of pertty welding/cutting stuff you just had to have". sometimes a mat of big roots the size of your leg would bog the machine down to stall point and I would have to lift and push then back up and push again or take light passes. the ditch ran down the center of where I am clearing. then raked all the roots into a big ditch about 12feet wide by 4 feet deep that was left from poor logging methods of the 1800s. I dug the stumps with the ripping claw on my backhoe and tried to get as much dirt off as possible to refill the hole. ![]() its neat to think about him and his impact on the world when I see the old stone piles from the fields that used to be here. He sold his patent to Holt manufacturing/Holt Caterpillar Company who merged with Best and in 1925 formed the Caterpillar Tractor Co. On a side note the land was first farmed and cleared by the Dinsmoor family, one of the sons was Charles Dinsmoor. I figure the inclined plane of the tines will pull the rake down in, add pressure for traction to the front of the machine, and help roll the roots up out of the ground instead of just breaking them into pieces in the ground. I angled the tines to try to get them to engage into the ground on there own. Mostly just what I have scrounged from the dumpster at work. Then I will disc it and plant clover or some cover crop on it for a year and try to plow it. Then this rake will hopefully break up the roots so they can rot or pull them out of the ground into windrows where I can pile them and burn them. I will be leveling it and filling in the stump holes. I plan on farming this land when I am done and don’t want to lose any top soil. Then I burn the top and cut the tree for firewood. That pulls the tree down and gets the stump out all at once. I have been pulling on the big trees with the winch cable while I dig around them with the ripping claw I built for the backhoe. Then I pulled all the dead fall and trash into a pile and burned it. First I brush hogged what I could between the trees. A lot of it over 3’ (1 meter) in diameter. They have grown back up with white pine oak and maple. I bought a few acres from my neighbor that was last cleared about 100 years ago. I am by no means an expert I am making every thing up as I go.
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