Posted by smiley on March 02, 2018 at 17:22:04 from (174.227.38.44):
I'm sure that many of the younger and non farm folks won't know what a slip scraper is, but it is the way dirt was moved with horses before tractors, scrapers, loaders, dozers etc. were invented. You can google it and see more of the real thing. I have a real one at home in NY that I used behind a tractor years ago. We also made one from a 55 gal drum cut in half lengthwise to dig a 33 x 16 foot swimming pool (in pure sand) at our first house in Fla in 1972.
I have a couple piles of shredded trees/compost that I wanted to spread and that's a lot of shoveling and wheel-barrowing so thought, without a tractor or anything here in Fla., what could I use to spread it. I had an old 100 lb propane tank out back and an old hand truck meant to move 30 gal drums around the garage. No monetary investment involved so what do I have to lose. You can see the results in the photos. It works ok but would be better with a bridle and longer flat bottom to carry more like the real ones. One photo shows the scraper is in the background and a rope and pulley attached to a palm tree, to move the compost into a blind corner. Hooked the wife up to the other end of the rope and hollered giddy-up but she couldn't move it so I had to let her use the car. for some reason I got 2 of the same and couldn't upload the other photos but you get the idea.
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