Gill's pulverizer

Daren Todd · Aug 24, 2016

Borrowed a pulverizer from another member of the site

Goal is to get the yard smoothed out and to re-seed. Gave it a test run next to the garage tonight. Unit weighs around 740 lbs. has spikes on the front and back of an I-beam. With two rollers that float on the back.

Here's what I started with.

Here's after the first pass

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Daren Todd · Aug 24, 2016

Here's after the second pass. Still loosening things up.

Here's after the sixth pass

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Daren Todd · Aug 24, 2016

With grass it worked so, so. Where it was almost all dirt, it works great!!!

It did knock the high spots down though in the sod

Just gonna be lots of trips around the yard

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85Hokie · Aug 24, 2016

Wow ....that's damn nice!

Ship that to me for JUST one weekend!!!

Nice job Daren!

Daren Todd · Aug 24, 2016

I was really surprised how the little bota handled it

It didn't miss a beat even though the thing weighs over 700 lbs and 6 foot wide. It does shave off the humps in the sod, and when approaching a big dip, you can raise it slightly to dump any build up like you do a box blade.

I can't turn though unless I take the weight off it

It did build up quite a few grass clumps with it. But kicking the pile takes care of those

Gonna be a long run though doing 1 1/2 acres. I have a couple spots I may have to knock down first with the box blade. Then dress with the pulverizer

edwardsonmark · Aug 24, 2016

I need to do something similar to my 6 acres. I like to see what attachments work so I can look around. Can't wait to see the progress

Daren Todd · Aug 28, 2016

Here's the back yard after scalping. Tried to get pics of the high and low spots.

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Daren Todd · Aug 28, 2016

Here's the sway ditch I've been trying to get smooth. It's like eating a whale

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Daren Todd · Aug 28, 2016

Some spots I had to hit with a box blade to knock them faster.

Still on the sway ditch

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Daren Todd · Aug 28, 2016

Got the sway ditch done.

It's now nice and smooth and doesn't beat you to death when driving through it. Then hooked the pulverizer back up. And knocked out all the wash boards in the back yard.

Can now run in 7th gear on the tractor without getting shaken to pieces

Managed to get rid of all the places I was catching the mower deck on as well

Now to find a diesel zero turn that needs some tlc

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Benhameen · Aug 29, 2016

Good looking dog, looks like my Emma. She is getting old and tired these days. ***128577;

Daren Todd · Aug 29, 2016

Benhameen said:
Good looking dog, looks like my Emma. She is getting old and tired these days. ***128577;

Thanks

She just turned a year old. She takes her supervising duties pretty seriously

Tooljunkie · Aug 29, 2016

This was the beginnings of my dirt tuner. 48" wide and spins 150 rpms(guestimating) does a decent job except on hard clay.
Beat on it last weekend,wish i would have angled it,then i could windrow the debris.
Pulverizer does a nice job, wonder how long it would take to straighten out 9 acres.....

My little unit is good on small areas 9 acres would take a year or so.

Daren Todd · Aug 29, 2016

Tooljunkie said:
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This was the beginnings of my dirt tuner. 48" wide and spins 150 rpms(guestimating) does a decent job except on hard clay.
Beat on it last weekend,wish i would have angled it,then i could windrow the debris.
Pulverizer does a nice job, wonder how long it would take to straighten out 9 acres.....

My little unit is good on small areas 9 acres would take a year or so.

What did you put on the roller?

After looking over the pulverizer and seeing how they made the rollers. I'm thinking about making an aerator to go behind the tractor. Found a source for the bearings in town for $20. Only thing that would time consuming would be welding on all those spikes

just need to find a piece of pipe around 18" to 24" that won't break the bank

Plus I would add a couple pipe plugs to the side so I can fill with water for extra weight.

To do 9 acres with the pulverizer, it would take awhile. Especially if you have hard baked clay. Back yards about 1 1/2 acres and I'm not quite done. Still got the front yard to do as well

Tooljunkie · Aug 31, 2016

Its about a 10" drum with a 1"shaft. I made a cross bar for either end that i set in my brake lathe to size for drum. The studs are 1/2"x1-1/2 grade 8 bolts with lock nuts. Made a single v chevron pattern to go around drum. 65 holes if i recall. Shielded it and a flap in front to keep the junk from covering me.
It leaves distinct lines behind, but almost 100% coverage. A couple passes and it seems to smooth things out nicely. Took about 15 hours to build.

13 horse honda with a 3" pulley to a 12" pulley then a chain drive 1:1 to drum.

Daren Todd · Aug 31, 2016

Tooljunkie said:
Its about a 10" drum with a 1"shaft. I made a cross bar for either end that i set in my brake lathe to size for drum. The studs are 1/2"x1-1/2 grade 8 bolts with lock nuts. Made a single v chevron pattern to go around drum. 65 holes if i recall. Shielded it and a flap in front to keep the junk from covering me.
It leaves distinct lines behind, but almost 100% coverage. A couple passes and it seems to smooth things out nicely. Took about 15 hours to build.

13 horse honda with a 3" pulley to a 12" pulley then a chain drive 1:1 to drum.

I like it

Didn't realize that you had it powered. Thought you set it up to pull.

skeets · Sep 1, 2016

junkie,,, that looks like a roller off a big old mine belt line around here that would be coal

Daren Todd · Oct 30, 2016

Figured I would give an update. Since I used the pulverizer on the yard, we've had rain around 3 times. So, the seed I put out hasn't done much. I covered the seed and I've been waiting or mother nature to bring in the fall rains.

So, today was the first time I've mowed since then. What a huge difference. I as able to mow in 6th gear. But the speed was a little fast for the finish mower to keep up. But the nice thing with the l1501 is the 4 speed pto. So, I grabbed second on the pto running around 700 rpms. Got the tip speed up on the finish mower to keep up with the faster travel speed

Got my mowing time down considerably

Daren Todd · Apr 23, 2017

Figured I would give an update since seeding the yard and show the finished product

Very happy with the way the yard turned out

gonna need to roll it next spring just to knock down a few ridges.

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Daren Todd · Apr 23, 2017

Here's the front

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