What do you guys call a "ground level" implement l

[Will Herring]

Grandpa always called it a "steel road drag"... Can't remember it being used more than once or twice (usually just to move it out of the way). Some sort of cutting blade underneath. Works pretty good for leveling out messes from stuff like dumped dirt from a loader bucket in a hole [just tried it out for that awhile back]... No idea what it is truly called though.


 

[hardscrabble]

"Road drag is what they called them around here too. In the old days, before the county maintained roads, every farmer had a road drag, and took care of his own roads. Now they are a specialty item, used mainly for driveways.
 

[Will Herring]

[flying belgian]

Yep. We called it a road drag.
 

[paul]

In general in the field there is too much vegitation causing plug-ups and they don't work well on a long haul. Could be useful to fix up an issue of some sort, but not as a general cover the whole field sort of thing?

--->Paul
 

[BCnT]

i've never seen a drag with plate over it...mine is 5 pieces of railroad track welded inside a pipe frame.
does that one have multiple drag edges underneath?
 

[Will Herring]

Never have managed to look underneath it, but I know there is at least some sort of cutting blade in the middle of it... Or so I was told.
 

[Leroy]

Sure wish we could see the underside, never heard of such a thing. Grew up with gravel roads and a lot still in area I do a lot of traveling in.
 

[BushogPapa]

Could not use it in any damp soil or it would just pack full and do nothing..
Must have been for a dirt/gravel road, or limited use leveling..

Ron..
 

[ihman73]

We use ours to level up cattle drylots and field roads. Used to use behind a disk before we had a field cultivator back in the plow everything days.
 

[TomA]

I think it a weeder for summer fallow ground.
When a flush of weeds comes up and they are small
it is pulled over the ground and the knife cuts off
the weeds just below the surface and it leaves the
ground nice and smooth so it will hold moisture. If
that is what it is it has a name, I just cant remember
it.
 

[Nebraska Cowman]

Yes, The county still uses road Drags here. They have a hoist arrangement on the back of the Patrol to carry it in transport. Dad talked about the King Drag. I suppose "King" was a brand name.
 

[Nebraska Cowman]

After I posted I got curious and googled it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_road_drag
King drag

 

[Ol' Gimpy]

My late father built similar units using oak 6x6"s,three of them boxed in.Always called it a "Slab".Used it mostly to level plowed sod,pulled in the direction of the plow.Also helped level fields,and could put rocks on it too.One of my first jobs-"Slabin".
 

[Will Herring]