The drag mat can be purchased from home and garden centers or it can be homemade from chain link fencing using a piece of fencing that measures 4 feet wide by 4 feet long.
Lawn drag mat diy.
I put together an idea of a leveling drag to use on both my seeding bed in the front yard as well as for ongoing top dressing for smoothing out and leveling.
Fasten it to the top of the drag mat at the very end.
A 1 4 or larger will start cutting and pulling alot of material depending on your soil conditions.
First select a piece of chain link fence.
Just like a diy drag mat commercial drag mats are either pulled manually may include a tow rope or attached to equipment like a zero turn mower infield tractor grooming machine or atv might come with the required mounting connector.
They will drag loose soil with each pass until the low spots are filled and the hills smoothened out.
Add weight to the drag mat by placing a couple of old boards across the 4 foot width.
The drag mat can be pulled by hand across a small area.
Place a couple of concrete blocks on top of the boards.
Leftover chainlink old bedspring.
Rusty old or bent is available.
Build a diy lawn drag from chainlink fence.
Chainlink works well for drags for lawns.
Now we will introduce an easy method of building drag mat by yourself.
A rope is tied to each corner of the fencing and the homemade drag mat can be pulled by hand or attached to a lawn tractor.
You can for instance whip up a drag mat to level lawn from.
It is the cheapest field equipment but reach the same result.
Chain link fence drag mat can be factory made or diy if you like.
I will take you through the simplest approaches.
Apr 8 2014 chain link drag mat made of chain link fence is among the cheapest and most popular field equipment in leveling surfaces and maintaining turf.
This will keep the bar from flipping or cutting.
Then use 6ga x 6 x 8 12 chain link and a 6 x 2 x 3 x 1 8 angle iron.
Chain link drag mat doesn t have strict requires of the quality.