![]() ![]() “The mud comes out of the tire as a real nasty, silky mush full of slime, weeds and dead leaves. Then I drive back to the other side of the pond again and start over by hooking up to the spare cable,” says Kalnbach. up onto dry land, then attach a short cable to the rebar loop and to my loader bucket and lift the tire off the ground to dump the load. “After I make a pass across the pond I pull the drag about 10 ft. He also attaches a spare cable to the rebar loop. To use the tire drag, Kalnbach attaches a long 3/8-in. A rebar loop mounted on back extends inside the tire and is welded to the frame. He welded together a triangle-shaped, steel rebar frame to reinforce the tire so it keeps its shape. Kalnbach cut away about one third of the tire, using a grinder with cut-off wheel to cut through the top of the tire and then a reciprocating jig saw with wood blade on the rest. ![]() “Our tire drag works much better than dragging a beam or a big rake, or even bed springs, because it digs into the bottom of the pond while also catching weeds and slime.” deep, but sediment has washed in from a nearby field and now the water is only 2 ft. We stock them with bluegills and perch and have enjoyed a lot of fish dinners over the years. “The ponds are 1/4 and 1/2 acre in size and were made back in the 1960s. It’s an inexpensive way to make a pond deeper without having to hire someone to do the job for you,” says Kalnbach, who used his tire drag for the first time last summer. “I got the tire from my neighbor’s 4-WD backhoe. ![]() He pulls the tire drag behind his Kubota B 6100 14 hp. Michigan farmer Doug Kalnbach recently built a “tractor tire drag” to dredge out a couple of small ponds on his property that were partially filled with sediment. ![]()
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