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Looking for a magnet to hang off my ripper

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Hopuser

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Juneau,Ak
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Surface Supervisor
Hi
As the title says looking for a magnet that will pick up metal debris from the road a large powerfull one the is easy to clean and will work to save tires. We had one but not strong enough and still having tire
Injurys. Seems like when we grade we turn up metal and with the cost of tires going up I need to find one.
So let see what you know
 
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Scrub Puller

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Gladstone Queensland Australia
Yair . . . Hopuser. Tell us more, what sort of metal and why is it there? I assume you are speaking of rear mounted rippers on a grader?

The unit in catfixers link looks the business. Showing my dinosaur tendencies again but I was unaware such devises were needed or existed. (he grins)

Cheers.
 
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Hopuser

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Juneau,Ak
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Surface Supervisor
The road has misc metal nails and such we had one but it didn't hold up, The idea is to save tires from damage. it worked before but the magnet lost its magnetism.
 
DoyleX

DoyleX

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Minnesota
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Lever Puller, Gear Jammer, Pipe Twister
Made an electromagnet... For some reason, friend's weather radio quit working "the speaker lost it's magnetism. If you put a magnet near it it'll start working again" So... coiled up the ground lead ( about 20 feet) and stuck the radio in it. Lowest amp setting ( about 40 amp ) ... viola!! radio played like a charm. Im sure the welder wasn't too happy about that, but by golly, it worked.
 
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