boggen
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- Joined
- Feb 22, 2011
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- Location
- Trivoli, IL
- Tractor
- SSTT (Sideways Snake Tain Tractor) and STB (sideways train box) tractor, dirt harvester
--slip clutch, most rotary cutters have them. learn how to setup them up and how to maintain them. Tractor Attachments And Skid Steer Attachments For Any Tractor Or Skid Steer has some videos / text of how to maintain slip clutches.
--for myself, i like running the FEL (front end loader) down and just a couple inches off the ground. so i can push a tree limb i can not see away, to hopefully pushing baby dear / baby cow that might be laid down in the thick grass (hide on purpose by mother) and will not move.
--some folks talk the general duty bucket off there FEL. so they can make it through woods better. on other hand i want the weight out in front via general duty bucket, to help counter balance the rotary cutter. and at same time, i may back down some areas towards a lake, and not be able to get back up (loosing traction) and use FEL to work my way back up the hill.
-- i do not remember person name / thread title right off. guy was mowing down some old areas that were left to go for a few years. and was having a lot of "traction problems" going up and down the hills. to simply having enough power to keep the rotary cutter going. if memory a lot had to do with "reducing air pressure in tires" tractors are not car / trucks on paved highways. tractor tires = mud / dirt, and a lower PSI is wanted. so the tire flattens more out for traction. i do belive same person also end up having to add some more weight into the FEL general duty bucket. along with having to drive down steeper hills, and then drive back up a non steeper areas, then take next pass down the steeper section ((long drive for a short path to mow)) more of issue all the weeds are wet, and when you cut them down, it just makes for a wet muddy slick ground. even if you let the area dry and no rains for a week or longer, when you go to start cutting down tall weeds they will have mini puddles of water around the stems were leaves attach, to simply not getting enough air flow lower to the ground causing things to not really dry out at all.
--radiators love to get plugged up when rotary cutting. having say a leaf blower might help clean them out, and/or an air compressor with a long metal bendable pipe you can bend some to work your way into and behind the radiator to blow crud out. ((do not run a cold garden hose water, onto a hot radiator)) just blowing them out with air should be good enough.
--check your air/ air filters as needed. they can also get clogged up from all the pollen / dust / crud in the air.
--rotary cutters are "heavy" and more so how far they stick out behind the tractor. and they will cause the rear end to "dog tail it" and cause rear end to shake back and forth.
--make sure you get correct "sway chains / bars" and "check chains/bars" for 3pt hitch. to help reduce the "dog tailing" but also to make sure you do not destroy the 3pt hitch.
--the rotary cutter is going to cause a lot of vibration, any turn buckles (long nut with 2 bolts coming out each end, with holes in the end) take a piece of wire and loop through the turnbuckles on the 3pt hitch. so they will not unscrew themselves and fall off some place.
--for myself, i like running the FEL (front end loader) down and just a couple inches off the ground. so i can push a tree limb i can not see away, to hopefully pushing baby dear / baby cow that might be laid down in the thick grass (hide on purpose by mother) and will not move.
--some folks talk the general duty bucket off there FEL. so they can make it through woods better. on other hand i want the weight out in front via general duty bucket, to help counter balance the rotary cutter. and at same time, i may back down some areas towards a lake, and not be able to get back up (loosing traction) and use FEL to work my way back up the hill.
-- i do not remember person name / thread title right off. guy was mowing down some old areas that were left to go for a few years. and was having a lot of "traction problems" going up and down the hills. to simply having enough power to keep the rotary cutter going. if memory a lot had to do with "reducing air pressure in tires" tractors are not car / trucks on paved highways. tractor tires = mud / dirt, and a lower PSI is wanted. so the tire flattens more out for traction. i do belive same person also end up having to add some more weight into the FEL general duty bucket. along with having to drive down steeper hills, and then drive back up a non steeper areas, then take next pass down the steeper section ((long drive for a short path to mow)) more of issue all the weeds are wet, and when you cut them down, it just makes for a wet muddy slick ground. even if you let the area dry and no rains for a week or longer, when you go to start cutting down tall weeds they will have mini puddles of water around the stems were leaves attach, to simply not getting enough air flow lower to the ground causing things to not really dry out at all.
--radiators love to get plugged up when rotary cutting. having say a leaf blower might help clean them out, and/or an air compressor with a long metal bendable pipe you can bend some to work your way into and behind the radiator to blow crud out. ((do not run a cold garden hose water, onto a hot radiator)) just blowing them out with air should be good enough.
--check your air/ air filters as needed. they can also get clogged up from all the pollen / dust / crud in the air.
--rotary cutters are "heavy" and more so how far they stick out behind the tractor. and they will cause the rear end to "dog tail it" and cause rear end to shake back and forth.
--make sure you get correct "sway chains / bars" and "check chains/bars" for 3pt hitch. to help reduce the "dog tailing" but also to make sure you do not destroy the 3pt hitch.
--the rotary cutter is going to cause a lot of vibration, any turn buckles (long nut with 2 bolts coming out each end, with holes in the end) take a piece of wire and loop through the turnbuckles on the 3pt hitch. so they will not unscrew themselves and fall off some place.
