Bush Hog in Latin is Sylva Malalis.
Latin is the root for most medical, law and horticultural words in the English language.
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Bush Hog history
How it all started…
In 1951, a new device designed to clear pasture and crop residue was being demonstrated to a group of farmers near Selma, Alabama. Witnessing the ease at which the tractor-pulled implement devoured heavy brush, an elderly gentleman wearing worn overalls stepped forward and observed, “That thing eats bushes like a hog!” And the name that became synonymous with rotary cutters in North America was born.
The first Bush Hog was the Model 12, a five-foot wide rotary cutter that became the “bread and butter” of the Bush Hog Company. It was the first such device of its kind, featuring a three-point lift and a stump jumper, with swinging blades that would fold back if they hit rocks or other heavy objects. The Model 12 was originally handmade at the rate of one per week in a dirt-floor factory in Selma. It was built-to-last out of heavy gauge steel, cost $320, and revolutionized how farmers managed their fields.
What was life like before Bush Hog? Well, those who still remember will tell you that if you were trying to clear pasture land, you used hay cutting equipment and drove your tractor around the big bushes and came back later armed with axes and hoes (and hopefully a lot of able-bodied helpers). Clearing a cornfield required a different strategy. Back then, most farmers hired 30 or 40 day laborers, supplied them with hoes, and worked from dawn to dusk until the job was done, which could take days or even weeks, depending on the size of the field.