Good day. Short answer is No I did not make homemade bedder…long answer is…I started down that route but that was when the steel prices surged…the price of the materials was more than just ordering the completed unit with FREE delivery to a commercial address / freight terminal. (Yes I am probably going to hell for thatAnybody here build one?
Ive been looking at buying one, then I thought it looked too simple to build one a lot cheaper, and then I went to youtube…
What do y’all use?
). To pour salt in the wound for me really came when time to price the discs…they are not cheap either. Part of my issue could have been my spec and how I would process the material though too…drilling all the holes was going to been an issue for me without a proper drill press or mill. Anyway I went with EA…same thing for my potato plow(it was shipped to my door for FREE via ups…I am really going to hell for that
). I was going to make something that goes into the rear triangle for both the bedder and the plow (see below… did that with intentions for modular implements specifically a plow and bedder)but at the time steel had a surge and I got wobbly knees and just ordered the bedder and plow. I think if you have access to scrap you can probably build and come out ahead…I did not have access to scrap and the price to buy new steel was too much for me to make it worth my time compounded with how I was going to drill all those holes on the cross piece….I wanted the ability to move the discs in/out for bed width. I have not looked lately so I am not sure current condition.
