How To Make A Homemade Drag Mat

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.

How to make a homemade drag mat.

Lay an appropriately sized chain link fence on the surface. And you can easily pull it manually making it a fantastic alternative if you don t have an able tractor. Drag mats are used on lawns after they have been freshly sowed or partly reseeded to make them less patchy. In this episode we show you our homemade drag for our lawn mower.

Add weight to the drag mat by placing a couple of old boards across the 4 foot width. For larger areas attach the mat to a lawn or garden tractor. Here is a quick rundown of how to make a chain link drag mat. The drag mat can be pulled by hand across a small area.

Saved by bigjohn greggs. Chain link drag mat made of chain link fence is among the cheapest and most popular field equipment in leveling surfaces and maintaining turf. Place a couple of concrete blocks on top of the boards. 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.

One of the best field drag materials available is the metal grating often used at construction sites or on some bridges for scaffolding. Anyone have pictures of a homemade drag they made for pulling behind an atv for cleaning up land for a food plot. We built this using only items we had on hand in our shop that we had collected over the ye.