dsmiley
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Panik, a little off topic here, I bet you took those photos with an Iphone. If so, take them with the volume buttons down and they will transfer to PC stuff in the proper orientation.
Dean
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Good Moring New BX2360 Owner with Questions
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I agree with the others, don't use your mid-mount for cutting that stuff. Look for a used rough cut deck or check out the Nortrac rough cut decks at Northerntool.com, there not bad for the money and there are stores in Georga. Check eBay as well.
In regards to the iPhone photo advice - not off topic at all considering I was asking you folks to look the condition of my field.
In any case I do for see a visit to northern tool as well as tractor supply. The wife's talking about putting in fencing, as well as improving the land so that we can eventually put a horse on it.
I think she's got higher expectations of my long term abilities than I do.
In any case I do for see a visit to northern tool as well as tractor supply. The wife's talking about putting in fencing, as well as improving the land so that we can eventually put a horse on it.
I think she's got higher expectations of my long term abilities than I do.In regards to the iPhone photo advice - not off topic at all considering I was asking you folks to look the condition of my field.
In any case I do for see a visit to northern tool as well as tractor supply. The wife's talking about putting in fencing, as well as improving the land so that we can eventually put a horse on it.
I've got one of those as well................ a wife with high expctations.
Let's face it.... we're screwed :confused3:
radioman
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If you are only 10 mins from kubota - why not go back and ask if they got a bush hog you can rent for the day and mow that field down the first time. Once it starts growing, you might be able to use MMM then. If worse comes to worse, you always can purchase a bush hog as you never know you need it again and chances are you will.
Yup - she already ordered a copy of "Horse Keeping on Small Acreage"
In all honesty I not complaining in the slightest. We have two young boys who are high functioning Aspergers and a new daughter. Tractors, horses and farms are right their alley and the kids are our motivation. 'Sides I get to play in the dirt and use equipment.
I did ask at the dealer about rentals and its a no go. But I think you're right Radioman we probably should rent or get a neighbor to brush hog the part we want to work on and see how it goes. That way we can spread out the costs. I have no illusions that we will need to buy a brush hog at some point but it'd be nice not to have to drop an additional 500 to 1500 on an attachment right at the moment. A couple months spacing between large expenditures would be nice.
fordmantpw
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Search on craigslist for a brush hog. I bought a Woods RCC42 for $350. Much cheaper than new, and it's in really good shape.
dodge man
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I bought a used brush hog also, for something like $250 and it wasn't in good shape. It was in better shape after a friend welded it up. It looks like mowing it with the MMM wouldn't be out of the question in my opinion. I've mowed worse, but like someone else said, its always been small areas. The problem looks like it has more to do with it being rough than too tall.
Well, I ended up "mowing" part of the field in order to mark the section I decide to keep uncultivated as its getting close to time to start working the field. I say mowed, basically I set the the deck just short of as high as it could go, took it slow and top cut everything. However I will be getting the field brush hogged to deal with the corn stubble.
In a related note I need a bit of reassurance. My dealer couldn't find the manual for my tractor and won't be able to get one to me until next week. When I mowed my actual lawn, prior to tackling the field, I couldn't get an even cut until I ran things up at 3000rpm. I didn't realize there was a break in period and that your weren't supposed to be running over 25,000 to 27,000 rpm.
I'm guessing its bit paranoid, but should I be concerned about this? The only thing I picked up on is that when I top cut the field the engine temp was about halfway between the mid point and the start redline I was done. the fan shroud wasn't blocked. I did vary rpm's pretty frequently doing the field and lawn simply due to getting used to the machine.
In a related note I need a bit of reassurance. My dealer couldn't find the manual for my tractor and won't be able to get one to me until next week. When I mowed my actual lawn, prior to tackling the field, I couldn't get an even cut until I ran things up at 3000rpm. I didn't realize there was a break in period and that your weren't supposed to be running over 25,000 to 27,000 rpm.
I'm guessing its bit paranoid, but should I be concerned about this? The only thing I picked up on is that when I top cut the field the engine temp was about halfway between the mid point and the start redline I was done. the fan shroud wasn't blocked. I did vary rpm's pretty frequently doing the field and lawn simply due to getting used to the machine.
rbarker
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Just speaking for myself I always mow at just a shade under wot (wide open throttle) or about 2900 rpm. As far as break in is concerned, the manual does call for a 50 hour break in period but its kind of hard to vary the rpm significantly for 50 hours when the work I mostly use the tractor for (snow blowing and mowing) require high rpm to operate effectively. It's not good to run too slow and bog down the engine either so I decided to run it the way the tractor was designed to be used and not worry about it too much. If I was going to run it for several hours straight I would take a break every half hour to fourth five minutes and throttle down for a couple of minutes before resuming.
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