Unloading a Brush Hog 3510

[Michaelallff]

I'll be needing to unload a 3510 Brush hog off a flat bed trailer. It weighs about 2,800 lbs and is 10 ft wide. It'll be sideways on the trailer. Any ideas would be appreciated. I worry that it would be to much weight on my tractor loader. Thank you all.

 

[Yander]

Drag it off slowly. When the first side hits the gently hits the ground, hook to the side still on the trailer and lift it and drive out from under it while you have it lifted with the loader. This assumes you have a tractor loader on your Case.

If you don't have a loader, find a local neighbor that has a loader and have them unload it at their house and you drive your tractor to hook up to it and drive it home.

 

[Cataclysm]

Pile dirt up next to the trailer to make a ramp. Back tractor up ramp, hook to brush hog and drive off.

I've done that a few times. Works pretty good.

 

[Yander]

How high is this flatbed? Are we talking Semi flatbed?

 

[Michaelallff]

It's about 3.5 ft high

 

[seville009]

Like Yander describes above, just unload it partially at a time (get one side on the ground, then the other). No need to lift the entire mower by itself.

 

[Tinhack]

1. I'd park the trailer under a tree and raise the cutter with some Come Alongs or similar. Pull the trailer out from under the cutter. Make sure you start with enough wound cable to lower the cutter to the ground.

2. Find a neighbor with a bigger tractor and loader.

 

[dieselscout80]

Woods C114-1 that has a 9.5’ wide cutting surface.

Just don’t let it swing into your radiator which I didn’t.

 

[Michaelallff]

Drag it off slowly. When the first side hits the gently hits the ground, hook to the side still on the trailer and lift it and drive out from under it while you have it lifted with the loader. This assumes you have a tractor loader on your Case.

If you don't have a loader, find a local neighbor that has a loader and have them unload it at their house and you drive your tractor to hook up to it and drive it home.

Thanks, this is probably my best option. I do have the loader on the tractor

 

[Michaelallff]

Pile dirt up next to the trailer to make a ramp. Back tractor up ramp, hook to brush hog and drive off.

I've done that a few times. Works pretty good.

I thought about this, probably should mention I live in southern Missouri where we grow more rocks in our soil then dirt. I don't think I could get enough dirt dug up without a back hoe

 

[Michaelallff]

1. I'd park the trailer under a tree and raise the cutter with some Come Alongs or similar. Pull the trailer out from under the cutter. Make sure you start with enough wound cable to lower the cutter to the ground.

2. Find a neighbor with a bigger tractor and loader.

I like the idea of finding a neighbor with a bigger tractor. Though I don't know anybody with a bigger tractor remotely close

 

[Eagle1]

I thought about this, probably should mention I live in southern Missouri where we grow more rocks in our soil then dirt. I don't think I could get enough dirt dug up without a back hoe

If you near me, that is a fact.

 

[Cataclysm]

I thought about this, probably should mention I live in southern Missouri where we grow more rocks in our soil then dirt. I don't think I could get enough dirt dug up without a back hoe

Fair enough. You have trees? Put bigger logs/limbs down first. Pile brush up on top. Drag brush hog off on cushy brush pile. Easy peasy!

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Try lifting it with your loader and if it will handle it lift it slightly and pull the trailer out from under it, I had to unload an offset harrow that weighed over 3k and I just got a tractor on each side of the trailer and eased it up with both tractor loaders and pulled the gooseneck trailer out from under it and eased both loaders down gently till it was on the ground. I don't know what size tractor and loader you have but 2 loaders is always a safe bet.