Wingnut
Veteran Member
watch where you\'re going!
I decided to "stretch" my pasture a bit on Saturday ... I've got about 8 acres of land between the house and barn that belongs to a Cell Phone company and has a tower and 3 supports .... and they rarely wack the weeds down .... so I've gradually fenced much of it off to use as a pasture. No complaints from them as it's temporary electric fence ... and I'm keeping the weeds down.
Anyway ... I've brush-hogged the unfenced portion many times ... and decided to do it again prior to extending my fence ... and finally got around to starting to brush it Saturday afternoon ... and did my first pass without paying much attention at all - familiarity breeds contempt, right?
So ... suddenly I get a wack-wack-wack sound from the brushhog, kick in the clutch, disengage the pto, back up ... and what do I see, a bent over T-post with a 2 foot section cut off ... wonderful. Never saw it in front of me - should have remembered it was there, but didn't. Climb off, pull it out of the ground ... set it aside - both pieces. Get out the tools and replace the broken shear bolt.
So far, no big deal .... replace shear bolts at least once every time I hog ... then I climb back on the tractor ... and just as I'm about to engage the pto, I see the oil light on .... oh no ... shut 'er down, climb off, look underneath ... everything is soaked ... with oil ... so, drive it back to the garage, park it inside, climb underneath. Nope, nothing broken here, nothing broken there, don't see any broken lines ... oops ... there it is ... the filter has a huge gash in it.
So .... when I drove over the slightly bent t-post .... the axle bent it down more, it sprang up and took out the filter ... and then proceeded to crease - but not break - the fuel "glass" ... sure glad they switched to plastic ... I guess I have to consider myself lucky that the t-post didn't do a heck of a lot more damage before it tangled with the brushhog blade!
Now I'm out of action until Steve Carver responds to my email request for a filter kit .... just because I wan't bothering to watch in front of the tractor as I wacked down the weeds and willows ....
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pete
I decided to "stretch" my pasture a bit on Saturday ... I've got about 8 acres of land between the house and barn that belongs to a Cell Phone company and has a tower and 3 supports .... and they rarely wack the weeds down .... so I've gradually fenced much of it off to use as a pasture. No complaints from them as it's temporary electric fence ... and I'm keeping the weeds down.
Anyway ... I've brush-hogged the unfenced portion many times ... and decided to do it again prior to extending my fence ... and finally got around to starting to brush it Saturday afternoon ... and did my first pass without paying much attention at all - familiarity breeds contempt, right?
So ... suddenly I get a wack-wack-wack sound from the brushhog, kick in the clutch, disengage the pto, back up ... and what do I see, a bent over T-post with a 2 foot section cut off ... wonderful. Never saw it in front of me - should have remembered it was there, but didn't. Climb off, pull it out of the ground ... set it aside - both pieces. Get out the tools and replace the broken shear bolt.
So far, no big deal .... replace shear bolts at least once every time I hog ... then I climb back on the tractor ... and just as I'm about to engage the pto, I see the oil light on .... oh no ... shut 'er down, climb off, look underneath ... everything is soaked ... with oil ... so, drive it back to the garage, park it inside, climb underneath. Nope, nothing broken here, nothing broken there, don't see any broken lines ... oops ... there it is ... the filter has a huge gash in it.
So .... when I drove over the slightly bent t-post .... the axle bent it down more, it sprang up and took out the filter ... and then proceeded to crease - but not break - the fuel "glass" ... sure glad they switched to plastic ... I guess I have to consider myself lucky that the t-post didn't do a heck of a lot more damage before it tangled with the brushhog blade!
Now I'm out of action until Steve Carver responds to my email request for a filter kit .... just because I wan't bothering to watch in front of the tractor as I wacked down the weeds and willows ....
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pete
