Billc
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- Joined
- Apr 6, 2000
- Messages
- 357
- Location
- Northwest Georgia
- Tractor
- Kubota 5400 4x4 with ROPS, canopy, 1001 loader, heavy duty quick release bucket with tooth bar, 280 Bush Hog brush cutter, 6' Bush Hog box blade, 6' Bush Hog plug aerator, 3 point hay spear, 6' Lands
I am cutting a pasture...errr...what use to be a pasture some years ago, for a customer. Lots of heavy growth: Briars, brush, 12 to 17 foot pines (lots and lots and lots of pines), and high grass. His field hasn't been touched in years. Oh, and can you believe that it is rock and stump free?
I have a Kubota M5400 with a heavy duty Bush Hog 286 6' brush cutter. I've done lots of jobs similar to this one with out a problem. Today, when I was within 3 hours of being done (am cutting 19 acres) the blade on my Bush Hog brakes. Lots of racket..."Huston, we have a problem." The blade brakes where the bolt goes through the hole into the blade. I find the blade. The circle where the bolt goes through is no longer a circle, its half a circle. The other part of the blade is still attached to the Bush Hog.
I go home and get a spare set of blades. The spare set happens to be the original blades that came with the Bush Hog. I had always taken them off, sharpened and ballanced them, and then reinstalled them. Finally decided to get a spare set. The spare set is what broke.
I go home, get my tools and original blades, and put one of the original blades on. I know this was wrong, but it was the end of the day and I wanted to get done. I brush cut for another hour and then it happens again. The other blade, that I bought as a spare, brakes.
I have never had this happen with my original blades. This is the first heavy stuff I've cut with the spare set.
Finally, here is my question: I thought I bought "Bush Hog" blades. I'm betting I got a knock off instead. Does Bush Hog put a stamp or identifing mark on their blades? I guessing this is sort of like buying logging chain. Not all chain is the same.
Any help would be geatly appreciated.
Bill Cook
I have a Kubota M5400 with a heavy duty Bush Hog 286 6' brush cutter. I've done lots of jobs similar to this one with out a problem. Today, when I was within 3 hours of being done (am cutting 19 acres) the blade on my Bush Hog brakes. Lots of racket..."Huston, we have a problem." The blade brakes where the bolt goes through the hole into the blade. I find the blade. The circle where the bolt goes through is no longer a circle, its half a circle. The other part of the blade is still attached to the Bush Hog.
I go home and get a spare set of blades. The spare set happens to be the original blades that came with the Bush Hog. I had always taken them off, sharpened and ballanced them, and then reinstalled them. Finally decided to get a spare set. The spare set is what broke.
I go home, get my tools and original blades, and put one of the original blades on. I know this was wrong, but it was the end of the day and I wanted to get done. I brush cut for another hour and then it happens again. The other blade, that I bought as a spare, brakes.
I have never had this happen with my original blades. This is the first heavy stuff I've cut with the spare set.
Finally, here is my question: I thought I bought "Bush Hog" blades. I'm betting I got a knock off instead. Does Bush Hog put a stamp or identifing mark on their blades? I guessing this is sort of like buying logging chain. Not all chain is the same.
Any help would be geatly appreciated.
Bill Cook