Bad things hit while bush hogging?

[riptides]

Wow!

About a week ago I hit a PVC pipe, about 8 foot long. I must say that had to be the quickest destruction of *anything* by my mowing that I have ever seen. By the time I reacted and lifted the deck it was too little, too late. Shards of sharp PVC in every size littered the mowing area. The biggest piece was about a foot long.

The only reason I say it was so bad, was because we spent the next hour or so picking up the debris.

The only reason I mention it a week later, is I found another piece this w/e.

 

[Thomas]

Sure does gets one attendion REAL quick doesn't it ...hope you never chew on small moose antler as I did...YIKES.

 

[kebo]

I was mowing one of the tracts my hunt club leases and I hit a broken piece of an old plow. The mower was just a bit to low because the 3pt hydraulics were leaking down some. It scooped up the broken plow and slung it around inside the mower deck for a while! A sharp corner on the plow knocked a 3/4" hole in one side of the deck before it finally got thrown out from under it.

 

[Heavyduty]

The worst thing (for me) to get into is metal cable. Got into about 50 feet once and it wrapped around the gearbox output shaft so tight, I had to unbolt the stump jumper and take the grinding saw to it. If you bushhog for the public homeower you will run into just about anything.

 

[Gator6x4]

The worst thing (for me) to get into is metal cable. Got into about 50 feet once and it wrapped around the gearbox output shaft so tight, I had to unbolt the stump jumper and take the grinding saw to it. If you bushhog for the public homeower you will run into just about anything.

Are you saying don't beleive them when they say, problems why no; we have been mowing it with a lawn mower, just got a little behind and need someone to cut the high stuff down.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

I don't know if TBN has the bandwidth for me to list EVERYTHING I've hit, so here's my "DAVE LETTERMANS TOP 10 BAD THINGS THAT ENDED UP UNDER THE BUSH HOG" list.

10.) gallon bucket of roof tar
9.)bee's nest
8.)propane gas bottle (no explosion but a LOT of noise)
7.)approx. 500' coil of high tensile fence wire
6.)my favorite hat
5.)sawn off telephone pole, about 8" tall
4.)bicycle frame
3.)Space-saver spare tire/wheel
2.)dead dog carcass
1.) Live deer

 

[LoneCowboy]

Like FWJ, I too have hit it all
(including a propane bottle, no explosion either, sucker flew like a 100 feet though, stop signs make a lot of noise when lying on the ground and they get sucked up by the cutter)

Hit a dead horse carcass, that was nasty.

BTW, a live Deer?????????? HTH did you do that?????

Anyway, worst thing ever was a cattle panel. (everyone know what this is?)

It's big thick wire (1/4" or so) in about 8" squares in a 5' by 8' panel. Hit it with a twin spindle 8' cutter. You can't just cut it out with a pair of diagonal wire cutters, and there isn't enough room to get bolt cutters in. and of course it got into both spindles.

Took over an hour (100 degrees out, lying under the cutter with about 3" of clearance to my nose, with all the grass falling in my face. BTW, it wasn't supported, so you safety guys can go have a heart attack now). to get it all clear.

UGH

 

[Diamondpilot]

For me it was my favorite sweat shirt. Started the job when it was cool and as it warmed up I took off layers. You guess what happened next. Yep, had the arms tied around the FEL valve handle and it fell off. Before you know it the thing was shredded.

Chris

 

[wolc123]

Once I got a big woodchuck. That thing nearly stalled my old Ford 2000 deisel. Another time, I got a good sized snapping turtle. Luckily I never hit anything that did any damage to the brush-hog, but once I drove into a 3 ft high, 2 ft dia stump in 4 ft high weeds that made a mess of the grill and front sheetmetal on that old Ford.

 

[spruce Deere]

Like FWJ, I too have hit it all
(including a propane bottle, no explosion either, sucker flew like a 100 feet though, stop signs make a lot of noise when lying on the ground and they get sucked up by the cutter)

Hit a dead horse carcass, that was nasty.

BTW, a live Deer?????????? HTH did you do that?????

Anyway, worst thing ever was a cattle panel. (everyone know what this is?)

It's big thick wire (1/4" or so) in about 8" squares in a 5' by 8' panel. Hit it with a twin spindle 8' cutter. You can't just cut it out with a pair of diagonal wire cutters, and there isn't enough room to get bolt cutters in. and of course it got into both spindles.

Took over an hour (100 degrees out, lying under the cutter with about 3" of clearance to my nose, with all the grass falling in my face. BTW, it wasn't supported, so you safety guys can go have a heart attack now). to get it all clear.

UGH

We "swath" a fawn or two every first cutting of hay with the swather. The darned things are programed to stay put no matter what. They do jump up but swathing along at good pace, it is always to late, and they are gone. Have got lucky, got things stopped in time and chased a few out of the uncut portion. Thats not a good feeling neither cause mama deer is never far. Dont usually know it happened till the next round. Got a skunk once, that was very obvious..... When cuttn 125+ acres you just never really know what lies out there.

 

[ttstraw]

I didn稚 hit this but I saw one of those big bat wing mowers mowing the medians in Texas hit a mattress...talk about cool to see but I bet the operator on that tractor was wondering what the heck just happened.

 

[warhammer]

Old wood posts lying in the grass.
Any kind of fence wire - wrapped around the above mentioned post or all by itself.
Bits of metal left over from decades earlier farm operations lying in the grass.


These are the few I have had the misfortune of finding while bush hogging.

Warhammer

Wow!

About a week ago I hit a PVC pipe, about 8 foot long. I must say that had to be the quickest destruction of *anything* by my mowing that I have ever seen. By the time I reacted and lifted the deck it was too little, too late. Shards of sharp PVC in every size littered the mowing area. The biggest piece was about a foot long.

The only reason I say it was so bad, was because we spent the next hour or so picking up the debris.

The only reason I mention it a week later, is I found another piece this w/e.

 

[jinjimbob]

While tilling, wrapped loggers steel rope around the PTO tiller, took a while to get out.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Like FWJ, I too have hit it all
(including a propane bottle, no explosion either, sucker flew like a 100 feet though, stop signs make a lot of noise when lying on the ground and they get sucked up by the cutter)

Hit a dead horse carcass, that was nasty.

BTW, a live Deer?????????? HTH did you do that?????

Anyway, worst thing ever was a cattle panel. (everyone know what this is?)

It's big thick wire (1/4" or so) in about 8" squares in a 5' by 8' panel. Hit it with a twin spindle 8' cutter. You can't just cut it out with a pair of diagonal wire cutters, and there isn't enough room to get bolt cutters in. and of course it got into both spindles.

Took over an hour (100 degrees out, lying under the cutter with about 3" of clearance to my nose, with all the grass falling in my face. BTW, it wasn't supported, so you safety guys can go have a heart attack now). to get it all clear.

UGH

One of us finds a way to hit "Bambi" every year. I got it last spring. Mother takes off like a scared deer but leaves her youngin' hunkered down in the weeds. I try to watch for it, but usually first sign is pieces flying.

Speaking of which.....Next job on the agenda is where last years "Bambicide" took place. This years potential victims might be full grown before the rains stop long enogh to mow though. It's rained 18 of the last 22 days. Not calling for any today. More though, the next 3 days. 4-1/2" in 3 hours last friday.....

 

[slowzuki]

I hit an oven door and a cinder block in one yard, worst on my own property was my well casing but it didn't go under the deck luckily.

I have an old hd bushog 8 ft cutter parked in my rockpile with the stumpjumper sheared off at the gear box. About a 2" shaft, no clue what he/she hit.

 

[intel]

I hit silt fence (that black fabric you see around construction sites)
it had been laying down in 4 foot grass must of been 100 foot long with 80 feet around the stump jumper that stuff is hard to cut with a little pen knife 1 1/2 hour later almost done cops and ambulance showed up someone had called in about a man caught under the brush hog. i wasn't caught but i guess it looked like it from the road.
The policeman was relieved when he herd me causing under the brush hog, that meant i was alive and well. Ambulance driver said why would you brush hog up the silt fence

 

[pitt_md]

Rocks seems to make a heck of a bunch of noise as they are being reduced to rubble. The worst thing I hit was a fence...That I had just installed a couple months before Took out a 4" wood post then proceded rip the high tensel steel wire off of the other posts. This didn't impress the wife at all.

 

[2manyrocks]

Nest of ground hornets....

 

[Tig]

1 1/2 hour later almost done cops and ambulance showed up someone had called in about a man caught under the brush hog. i wasn't caught but i guess it looked like it from the road.

I can just picture you struggling with your penknife, legs kicking for leverage and some poor Samaritan who is watching but doesn't have the stomach to come over and comfort you until help arrives. Poor guy was probably traumatized. I'd like to hear the 911 tape.

 

[intel]

Yes i know, the more i think about it forget about my legs were kicking around yanking on the stuff. The policeman said he dreaded approaching the site imagining a gory seen.