Dragging a semi rocky road

[levicooper]

Does anyone have experience making a home made drag that would work on a semi rocky road? Ideas would be very helpful. Thanks

[TomJr]

I have never used a drag but seen the border patrol use them and they stored one near the road so I looked it over good. They took thick steel cables about 1/2 inch and 11 good sized truck tires. Drilled holes in the tires and strung the cables though. The tires were arranged in sort of a V shape with the point aimed towards the back of the dragging vehicle. So one tire then 2 tires then 4 and then a 2nd set of 4.

[Mike Leonard]

That would dang sure make a good drag but hard to pack around you would have to stash it like they did.

Semi rocky road presents a probelm because unless you can stir up a big cloud of dust you won't lay enough across the rocks to see a track.

I have used evrything from small bushy trees, to chain link with weights and even large chains. If you can pick up about 3 sets of used up old double truck chains for big trucks you can tie them together and make a mpretty good drad that you can still wrestle into the back of a truck to haul around.They still won't do much on the rocky areas but may stir up enough dust to see a track.Some of these old trucking companies sometimes have scrap chains that are wore too thin to repair you can get from them,

At one time i had a set of old cleated trailer mats that I cvould pull out of my horse trailer and hook on to the rear of the trailer and I would drag the roads going into my camps and it worked out pretty good at times and also let you know what was moving in that area.

A lot of people don't think the old time dry ground hunters ever bothered dragging roads or trails but I can tell you from personal account a lot of them did.

Wiley Carroll told me how he had road drags and he even had a seat rigged up out in from where a guy could ride and really scan the road as they drove slow to see the faintest of tracks. It can save you a lot of time finding a starting place if the conditions are right for it.

Use your imagination and have fun with it.

[Cowboyvon]