Rotary Cutter King Kutter In Action...

[Travis_R]

Y'know...you got to be a total tractor nut when you can watch 10 minutes of brush cutting!!

Roy, I'm definately in that category!:laughing:

 

[Learning to Farm]

I am also slightly embarrassed, I use the farm's brush-hog to mow pastures. This is amazing! When I mow this afternoon I am going to feel like it is over kill, like swatting flys with a shotgun. However, I got permission to fix up a finishing mower I found in the weeds behind the barn.

Roy, I love your "you can do it attitude" you give us newbies! (yes, I wear my lap belt with my ROPS, wink)

MoKelly, I have about 100hrs almost all mowing. The tractor I use has 1248hrs, I wish it could impart all of it's knowledge into me Two funnies from last weekend: I learned everyone loves to wave at tractors, adults and kids (I was mowing the pasture next to the road). Also, when I stop to talk to people on the tractor and take off my floppy hat they don't expect a woman, haha!

Is it sad that I watched it twice to look for technique? Like knocking it down first with FEL and 1/2 mowing so it was "easier" on the brush hog. One question how does one "clean up" the downed saplings? What about poking tires with the little stumps, will they? Best time of the year to do this kind of work, this looks like fall?

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Also, when I stop to talk to people on the tractor and take off my floppy hat they don't expect a woman, haha!

What about poking tires with the little stumps, will they? Best time of the year to do this kind of work, this looks like fall?

My wife can run a combine as well as anyone I've ever seen. We're working with my daughter-in-law now to teach her. That frees up me and/or my son to drive the grain truck.

Yes, those little staubs will punch right on through a tire. BTDT, have several expensive radial tires w/big ol' holes in them leaning against the back wall of the shop..... That's the best reason why bush hog blades shouldn't be razor sharp. They cut saplings instead of shattering them. Cutting leaves a sharp edge, where shattering them leaves a little "softer" point.

On the subject of combines, with todays bio tech crops, corn stalks are much tougher than they used to be "back in the day". I've seen quite a few combine tires chewed up and ruined by plain ol' corn stalk staubs.

IMHO. the absolute BEST time to mow dense brush is the dead of winter when there isn't much in the way of foliage. MUCH easier to see what's in the line of fire!

 

[Learning to Farm]

My wife can run a combine as well as anyone I've ever seen. We're working with my daughter-in-law now to teach her.

:thumbsup:

Can I be just the slightest bit jealous? I watched the new Gleaner YouTube series and want to help with harvesting so bad now... My husband thinks I am nuts, he thought that for a long time but now he just accepts that I am having an early mid-life crisis. Haha!

 

[reelnative]

ive never owned one but I hear everyone knocking the kk brand, I looked at some of them at tsc and they looked beefy really they looked stronger then the howes and bush hog squeelers, I looked at, the kk brand had a really thick I beam around the edges and the metal they were made out of looked like 1/8in steel or at least 10ga, I do own a kk 5ft box blade and have been dragging it for 5yrs at least once a week for 2miles to keep my road drivable and its holding up good its only lost some paint on the bottom edge and thats from me not the blade, I would say for the money they look good