Dew dragger in for a refit. It has been working flawlessly for a couple of seasons. Made some upgrade a while back that worked out great. This season I'll do more changes so we can dump the box. I'm also thinking of mounting a pro force blower in the box. That way it will have some dual-purpose work while it's out there.
Only keeping the arms and hitch section.
Old hardware from figuring out what will work over the years.
Fresh start.
New upright to hold arms up in transport
Playing around with ideas
This will work out great. a sliding hinge using rails from box to.
Washers and bolt will ride inside rail .
Looking good so far
Going to use these bearings for arm pivots
Made tabs to weld on old arms to mount
Bunch of holes to find ideal spot. Then I'll cut the rest of later
Almost done
Final assembly. Didn't have any 7/16 nyloc nuts ...SOOO I decided to do this.
Welding on the supports
Done ready for paint
I'll post a pic with blower in it later. Their out on the course with it at the moment.
Bad case of the Bends.
Yes, I did the unprofessional thing and lost my cool a bit after being told it was like that! (First time out dragging)
Not sure what kind of day the staff member was having but added to the work load I had that day.
Then this happened!!!
Sheesh!! Did some quick repairs to get it back out. Second time out a different staffer brought it back safe and sound. Next time I took it out. Having the blower handy was great to fire up when needed to clean cart paths of grass debris. No issues the second and third time out but did find the hinges I installed to floppy.
Had time to cut out all the bends and had some metal to weld in. It was the quickest way.
For the hinge I pressed a piece of round tube stock inside the square stock. Feels pretty solid now.
2019 updates
Right out of the gate last season it got bent up pretty bad.
For easier repair I'm changing a few things up.
First the blower was removed for service.
and reinstalled in center of dump bed. Found last season it started to list to one side.
Here are last season's set up. Made out ok all season
Doubling up on this support. Found the old system bent a bit from impacts
Reason for the fancy mount is to tip box back to rinse out.
The lower bar hangers I'm going to cut off and raise to level with the rest plus shorten it in by 5" total
changed how bar pins to frame. This way bar can lay on mount for easy clipping
bar framing raised and shortened
easily removable to repair.
Staying with same grass guard set up. works great.
a little paint
