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SW Ohio | Von's links covered the basics.
After watching a beat up Shulte sell at auction for over $12,000 I thought I could build one, so started looking over the inventory pile and came up with what you saw. It is sitting in the "seldom used parking lot" so I am guessing a little here, the pipe is regular 8" (maybe 10"), the rods are 1.5"x 24", drilled all the holes with one worn hole saw and a harbor Freight drill press, the frame components came from a junk disc, the motor is from a 200 series bean head. It does not work as well as expected, it tends to windrow dirt and miss a few rocks, especially if they are half or more below the surface. I used it to clean a dirty field going into hay and it was better than hand picking, neighbors have borrowed it for pipeline clean up and some fencerow jobs, they had no complaints but it has not run very many hours since I made it. A few thought come to mind to make a better design-more weight, it tends to rise up and over, flat teeth to grab rocks better-maybe even have a little bend in the end of teeth. Mostly I built it just because I could, I enjoy turning my dumb ideas into finished product. | |
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Homemade rock rake
