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 its 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
I video of it in action .
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 off 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 pieces 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 is last seasons 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.
