Recent content by Brushcutter1

Often farmers, especially hobby farmers, use what they have. Back in the 70s Dad had a David Brown 990 with a fel. A friend asked if Dad would bring it over and bury a dead cow in his pasture while he was at work. I watched. At about 2 feet deep, progress got real slow. Dad rolled the...

I do this on my tractors also. I also use wheel weights when I can get them. On my Kubota B 7100 I built a front bumper that weighs over 100 lbs. with a 40lb. weight that I can swing out to the side for a side slope. I "weighed" the idea of putting duals on the back. (I have an extra set of...

Something else to mention is the "unknown factor". I learned that the hard (painful) way. On a property that I rented, looking at a hillside covered in blackberries I saw that the top was level for turning around and the bottom looked ok. The slope itself was ok to mow going up and down. So I...

I've never joined a forum before, but I want to share my "experience". For the last 20 years I've spent hundreds of hours brush hogging 20 plus sites on the Oregon coast.(rarely flat) I've used several different tractors and rolled one. That one was a Chinese Tai Shan, 25 hp, 2wd, no rops...