#$%@&*! Barbed Wire

[MDNick]

TonyC,

When you started about barb wire and brush-hogging, I figured you were going to reference winching the stuff up. When a brush hog gets a hitch on some good wire, barb or otherwise, it can make an incredibly high speed winch. Many feet can instantly become wrapped around, above, betwixt, etc. the stump jumper. Makes on heck of a mess. If it won't unwind (yeah, right), only way to get it out is with a torch, and that can be hard on the gear box seals. Been there. Ya want to be real careful around wire and a bush-hog.

Nick

Farmer kid usetabe, Farmer Wannabe

 

[Hillbilly]

I have used an orbiting grinder to remove barbed wire from bush hog.

 

[TonyC]

I actually had two choices...the other choice was cheaper, probably around $75.00. They couldn't come out for a week, though. The expensive guys came out right away. I guess we pay for impatience!

 

[TonyC]

MossRoad...when they drained the fluid from my tire I noticed it was blue. The guy told me that it was exactly the same stuff that's used in windshield washers, just a bit more concentrated. I guess it works!

 

[MikePA]

Sounds like the choice our horse vet gave us when we had to have a horse put down this past summer. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif She said she worked with 2 places that would dispose of the remains.

One costs $150 and will be there within an hour or two after she put the horse down. The other cost only $75 but sometimes would take a few days to arrive. We paid the extra $75!

 

[TonyC]

Sorry to hear about your horse. My neighbor raises horses and when they go down it hurts the pocketbook as well as the heart. In your case, you had a good excuse to be impatient. That's not the kind of thing you want to drag your feet on.

 

[JJT]

John, Somewhere I read a post on folks using concentrated beet juice to fill their tires. I gues the high sugar content keeps it from freezing and it's all natural. Windshield washer fluid and antifreeze are toxic. CaCl is caustic, but fairly harmless to the environment and nothing will drink it. Wish I knew about the beet juice 3 yrs ago. I believe the post was on the compact tractor board site. http://jplan.com/cgi-bin/tractor/testTractor.pl

 

[bgott]

A friends wifes dad was killed by barbed wire while shredding. It seems the wire wrapped up and the end spun around and pierced his heart.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

The suger beet juice around here is sold by the trade name Rimguard...

<font color=blue>...toxic...</font color=blue>

My wife has a number of household cleaners under our sink that are deadly toxic... but that doesn't prevent us from buying or using them for their intended purpose... /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

At this point, I feel the windshield washer fluid offers the most bang for the buck and one of the "cleanest" as compared to what else is currently available...

 

[MossRoad]

I heard mention of Rimgaurd. Sounds worth looking into.

My loader has calcium in the tires. I noticed that it was wet around the tire in the garage, so I followed it up to the valve stem. It had rotted out. I had to jack up the tractor and rotate the tire so the stem was at the top until I can get it replaced.

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