Show OPERATION OF A ROAD DRAG BRAG mistake for operator to think that all ue tie has to do Is to drive team get best angle whenever the road drag lias has been tried and pronounced a failure it ix Is safe to say that it was not used often enough or else it was used at the wrong time or in the wrong way some operators seem to think that all they have to do is 13 to drive the team and the drag will automatically do the work but this Is a sad mistake in the first place the manner of hitching the team to the drag greatly k operating a road drag effects affects its operation if a short hitch Is used the tendency la is to raise the front edge of the drag while a longer hitch makes it cut deeper and move more material the correct length of hitch to use depends upon the height af pf of the team arrangement of harness etc and must be determined by trial the amount of skew or angle which the drag makes with the center line of the road load also affects the results the greater the lie skew 1 I 1 e the smaller the angle between the drag and the center line of the road the more earth 1111 be moved toward the center usually this skew angle should be about abt 45 degrees but here again the judgment and experience of the operator must be brought into play the driver can control the operation to a large extent by shifting his position upon the drags drag when lie approaches pro aches a high spot in the road he can step to bonard toward Nard the front thus making the blade cut deeper while at a depression he can step toward the rear in tills this way raising the cutting edge and dumping the earth which is being pushed ahead of the drag by stepping toward the end of the drag nearest the center of the road he can increase the skew and so move more earth toward the center line while stepping to the other end of the dram drag lias has the opposite effect in road drab dragging it is especially true that practice makes perfect provided that common sense la Is used along with the irac practice tice |