Re: 10 ft bladed pull behind grader:anyone know something about them?

Posted by Rennie on August 27, 2001 at 06:39:25 from (209.23.99.206):

In Reply to: 10 ft bladed pull behind grader:anyone know something about them? posted by solates on February 18, 2001 at 05:21:37:

In upstate NY we have the York Rake Co. In Unadilla, NY, always painted yellow, in business since the horse drawn era, they built the "Workman" and "General Workman" in later years, which our town still uses one of, seperate engine and hydraulic control, although they made the mistake of getting rid of the 1961 ACRS Walter truck they pulled it with just before the Blizzard of '93.
Another Upstate producer was the Good Roads/Champion outfit in Marathon, NY, and the Acme Road Mach. Co. which was an offshoot, in Frankfort, NY, that also built rollers.
The style of framework can give you clues,(Russell used a flat channel steel frame on horse drawn models, sort of rectangular but with distinctive rounded corners, I think our town had a couple of those and a "Mammoth Leaning Wheel" Adams or Austin? with an arched frame, as the town was originally divided into "wards" each with a "warden" who was boss, and farmers could pay their town taxes by working on town roads with their teams pulling graders, etc. Our town would pull three graders c. 1920 with their Linn tractor, doing the center and both ditches at the same time). If there is no manufacturer's plate or name, you will probably have to just use comparison to figure out what it is. If it came from a local highway dept. you might be able to research their records, any purchase of equipment was usually recorded in the minutes of town meetings, etc.
I think York typically had a large hand wheel either side of where the operator stands and 3 smaller wheels in front, and a flat frame.

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