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road magnet
spasmcreek
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went out with magnet on a stick & drove 4 wheeler slow and picked up a pile of tire killers...thinking about a 6 or 7 ft tow behind bar to sweep twp roads around home..can get ceramic ring magnets 3.2" in diameter with a 95# pull shipped for $7.80 apiece and thought about 10 of them mounted 8 to 9 " apart on an aluminum frame with height adjustable wheels on end ??? seems cheapest way to do this...any ideas ????
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When I was in the Marine Corps, was working with Facilities Maintenance, they had one mounted on the back of a tractor powered off of the PTO. They brought it over because it wasn't picking up real good. Cleaned up the slip rings and loosened the brushes to make better contact, sent the operator back out. He came back and asked we turn it down a little, was pulling manhole covers.
While at Vermeer, he invented the pallet grinder.
Goofed around with some big 'ol magnets for the grinder.
He made a tire killer picker upper with one of the big barrel magnets.
I borrowed it for my pasture a year ago, tired of running magnets through the cows.
Picked up 2 -3 gallon buckets of treasure.
But, drug it to a neighbor a mile away to do his feed lot.
You would not believe what I picked up off the road.
Mass nails, screws, tractor pins, bolts, and old horseshoe with cleats on it.
Asked my buddy if he'd build me one, and two neighbors wanted one.
He said sure, but those barrel magnets cost $2000 apiece 15 years ago.
Worked like a dream though.