cmatthew
New member
- Joined
- Oct 2, 2006
- Messages
- 11
- Location
- Montgomery, AL USA
- Tractor
- 3.5 HP Toro 22" cut w/bagger ----Wish I could get a real tractor!
Hey guys,
Saw the post on sharpening bush hog blades and I thought I see if anyone had a solution to this problem---
A buddy of mine (Captain Destructo) called me the other day to take a look at his cutter. He said it was making an awful racket while cutting. Turns out he managed to hit something solid enough to bend the deck where the gearbox mounts and now the blades hit the bottom of the mower deck (5' width, I think) on the left side.
I tried to remove the blade in order to take off the gearbox and hammer/shim the deck straight, but I couldn't get the blade/stump jumper pulled off the shaft. I've soaked the splined shaft with liquid wrench and even put a torch on it with no luck.
I went by there this morning and found that my buddy had flipped over the mower deck and hung it with chains attached to the blades from an engine hoist. He was hitting the shaft with a 5 lb. sledge hammer hoping the hammer and weight of mower deck would cause it to drop off. I'm not sure what he would have done when the deck landed on his legs/feet. I took his hammer away from him and went to work.
Anyway, sorry to ramble on with this and if anyone has a suggestion I'd greatly appriciate it.
Thanks,
Bryan
Saw the post on sharpening bush hog blades and I thought I see if anyone had a solution to this problem---
A buddy of mine (Captain Destructo) called me the other day to take a look at his cutter. He said it was making an awful racket while cutting. Turns out he managed to hit something solid enough to bend the deck where the gearbox mounts and now the blades hit the bottom of the mower deck (5' width, I think) on the left side.
I tried to remove the blade in order to take off the gearbox and hammer/shim the deck straight, but I couldn't get the blade/stump jumper pulled off the shaft. I've soaked the splined shaft with liquid wrench and even put a torch on it with no luck.
I went by there this morning and found that my buddy had flipped over the mower deck and hung it with chains attached to the blades from an engine hoist. He was hitting the shaft with a 5 lb. sledge hammer hoping the hammer and weight of mower deck would cause it to drop off. I'm not sure what he would have done when the deck landed on his legs/feet. I took his hammer away from him and went to work.
Anyway, sorry to ramble on with this and if anyone has a suggestion I'd greatly appriciate it.
Thanks,
Bryan