Drag Mat Diy

Chain link fence drag mat can be factory made or diy if you like.

Drag mat diy.

I explain how it works and how i built it. A rope is tied to each corner of the fencing and the homemade drag mat can be. Here is how to make a pallet drag harrow. The most popular material is a section of chain link fence.

The drag mat can be purchased from home and garden centers or it can be homemade from chain link fencing using a piece of fencing that measures 4 feet wide by 4 feet long. Ensure that the pallet bottom side is facing up. However its going to serve a dual purpose of also doing the initial drag on our 11 year old select baseball team s field. The drag mat is either pulled by hand or attached to a piece of machinery such as a garden tractor.

You can as well transform a pallet to a leveling drag mat that brings the finishing you would get with a commercial unit. I also made sure i drilled the holes on the bottom of the setup so the bolt heads would sit inside the squares of the drag mat and not stick out. Fasten it to the top of the drag mat at the very end. First select a piece of chain link fence.

This will keep the bar from flipping or cutting. Not sure if i will be able to drag it behind atv when it digs in or whether i will have to use something larger like my suburban. I put together an idea of a leveling drag to use on both my seeding bed in the front yard as well as for ongoing top dressing for smoothing out and leveling. Drag mats take the place of garden rakes to overseed large areas.

Use a cutting torch to cut a rectangular piece of grating to a size of 4 feet by 6 feet and then attach a chain to one of the 6 foot sides. One of the best field drag materials available is the metal grating often used at construction sites or on some bridges for scaffolding. No idea if it will work or not. I then added the 4 x3 drag mat that i had from my previous leveling attempt and added a 2 x2 x4 piece of 1 8 thick angle iron on top of that held on by 3 8 lag bolts.

View attachment 20844 view attachment. Dragging loose soil with a mat levels the ground and covers fresh seed. Chain link drag mat doesn t have strict requires of the quality. Drag mats can be constructed from many scrap pieces of material.

This is my top dressing drag mat. The point is about the size of the mesh opening which is determined by the. A 1 4 or larger will start cutting and pulling alot of material depending on your soil conditions. Rusty old or bent is available.

It is the cheapest field equipment but reach the same result. The mat will do the cutting and the bar will level it.