DaveM
Silver Member
Hey Gang- The Bush Hog SQ600 and the Land Pride FDR2560 was delivered on Friday. It's still too soon to use the mower but I finally got to do some real tractor work with the cutter. I'm totally amazed at the ability of the tractor/cutter combo to annihilate about 1.5 acres of brush!! It took about 5 hours as I took it slow and learned it's cababilities while also triming around aprx. 60 spruce trees. I cut lots of huge multi-flora rose bushes (some of these had their own zip codes /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif) and many wild apple saplings with trunk diameters up to aprx. 1.5". The delivery guy gave me a good tip for cutting the rose bushes. For the really big ones I'd back up to them with the cutter raised and slowly lower it on top. Did I say I was totally amazed?! I did discover a few large stones though and these did not do the blades any favors. Both blades now have some major "ripples" in the cutting edge. I suspect that this season will be toughest on these blades as I cut brush for the first time. Future cuttings will be mostly grasses and thin shoots from the roses and saplings I cut now. If I removed the blades, could I hammer them back, more or less, to their original shape? Should I not worry about it and continue to use them this way for the rest of the season? Maybe get new blades next year and save these blades for future rough stuff?
A related multi-flora rose question too. Am I fooling myself by thinking I can eventually kill these roses if I keep this area cut? Is it worth trying to pull or dig out the roots?
Did I say I was totally amazed?! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Thanks- Dave
A related multi-flora rose question too. Am I fooling myself by thinking I can eventually kill these roses if I keep this area cut? Is it worth trying to pull or dig out the roots?
Did I say I was totally amazed?! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Thanks- Dave