It looks functional for a wagon just pulling a 4 wheel hayrack.
Someday some serious weight from a 2 wheel trailer will be put on it. That is what tractors are for, heavy pulling and heavy hitch loads. So someday it will get that.
Grader blade metal is odd stuff. Built to wear and be stiff, but not possibly real strong. Might rather break than bend. Or some bend pretty easy.
Throw in the welding on it, that changes the structure of the metal on the weld seam. If you welded across the blade, you created a line that is ‘different’ and will react to weigh and bending and shock loads differently. That is kind of scary...
Dad made a drawbar for the Ford 960 out of regular metal bar laying around the shop. It was the correct dimension bar. Managed to cut it the right length and drill a big hole in each end with the hand tools of our shop. But it bent down with the first load he put on it, the bar was soft.
My Oliver tractor I pulled the manure spreader every August. You could see the correct factory drawbar spring down a little, under a lot of weight. It was best to bolt the pin holes in the drawbar together on each side of the drawbar. Or the swinging drawbar lip would break off, it had a lot of weight to hold up under. We ran the drawbar is short mode, not really much sticking out. By the time you put a receiver hitch in there, you are extending the wight way far out.
I’m sure your drawbar will work 100 years for what you plan for it today.
Just hope your plans don’t change, and someone gets hurt.
There are things that can go wrong, and might be the next owner before any of that shows up.
Enjoy your pics and your message, and I’m not trying to beat up or be critical of you. Not in any way at all. I’m sure my message is too long for anyone to bother reading anyhow.
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