Box Scraper Built For Under $300

Box Scraper Built For Under $300 FARM HOME Miscellaneous Marlin Galde couldn’t justify the cost of a new box scraper to maintain the gravel road that runs in front of his place So the Wahpeton N Dak rural resident built his own 8-ft wide 3-pt mounted box scraper for less than $300 “We use it to maintain a 1/4-mile stretch of road in a high traffic area It works like a little land leveler ” says Galde “I use my 20 hp Ford 1210 diesel tractor to pull it Two of my neighbors also use it and pull it behind their Ford New Holland Boomer tractors ” The box scraper is 8 ft wide and rides on 15-in rear flotation tires that extend 3 ft back from the blade The body is made from 3/16-in steel plate that Galde had rolled by a local fabrication shop and the welded-on ends are made from 1/4-in plate The wear bar is an old grader blade that he got in 5-ft sections He cut the sections to length and then bolted them on side by side The tongue attaches to the 3-pt lower lift arms and is made from tube steel Angled braces welded to it are made from 1 1/2-in pipe A 6-ft length of railroad iron is bolted on top of the scraper for added weight Galde used tube steel to make an axle for the tires which are off an old trailer “It does a great job of leveling and is built simple without any hydraulics which makes it easy to operate ” says Galde “A lot of people compliment us on how good our road looks I built the body mostly from scrap material that I already had After I was done building it I painted it Ford blue to compliment my Ford tractor I also jazzed the scraper up by painting an angled white line on each side which gives it a sense of motion ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Marlin Galde 18075 78th St S E Wahpeton N Dak 58075 ph 701 899-1676; marlingalde7@wah midco net

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