How To Make A Homemade Drag Mat
In this episode we show you our homemade drag for our lawn mower.
How to make a homemade drag mat. And you can easily pull it manually making it a fantastic alternative if you don t have an able tractor. I have about 4 acres of woods i can make a food plot with and a new atv but i have seen the prices of some of the attachments and it just ain t in the cards. Industrial drag mats and harrows are pulled behind tractors but a smaller version simply made from chain link fence can be pulled by hand or by a ride on mower. Chain link drag mat made of chain link fence is among the cheapest and most popular field equipment in leveling surfaces and maintaining turf.
Drag mats are used on lawns after they have been freshly sowed or partly reseeded to make them less patchy. Diy driveway gravel driveway horse shelter small tractors tractor implements tractor attachments yard tools lawn maintenance chain link fence. The drag mat can be pulled by hand across a small area. A 4ft x 6ft width by length drag works for a start though you can make it longer than 6 foot as per your.
Use a cutting torch to cut a rectangular piece of grating to a size of 4 feet by 6 feet and then attach a chain to one of the 6 foot sides. Here is a quick rundown of how to make a chain link drag mat. For larger areas attach the mat to a lawn or garden tractor. Anyone have pictures of a homemade drag they made for pulling behind an atv for cleaning up land for a food plot.
One of the best field drag materials available is the metal grating often used at construction sites or on some bridges for scaffolding. Lay an appropriately sized chain link fence on the surface. We built this using only items we had on hand in our shop that we had collected over the ye.