MossRoad
Super Moderator
- Joined
- Aug 31, 2001
- Messages
- 60,253
- Location
- South Bend, Indiana (near)
- Tractor
- Power Trac PT425 2001 Model Year
I was thinking more about rear mounted mowers. True, I would not do it with a front mount. But I would still inspect the site beforehand.
That's what I'm trying to tell you.... there's places in there that you or I can't possibly inspect. And even if we could, we'd miss stuff. For example, I mow next to a highway, a strip about 8' in. No matter how well I inspect it, there's highway debris in there that I've managed to hit: fence posts, truck load bars, dead turkeys, tire pieces, car and truck parts. The worst was a large, ratcheting load binder handle. It blew one rear wheel clear off of my brush cutter. Lucky it didn't take out my front tire on the tractor. Lucky it didn't fly out onto the highway, or across the road and take out a house over there, about 150' away. I'm always mindful of that, and constantly keep an eye out for vehicles on the highway and stop moving the machine when they get within several hundred yards of me. Sometimes it'll take quite a while to mow that 8' wide X 1/4 mile strip due to traffic and waiting for clearings.