Bought my first garden implement

[clemsonfor]

you can get the top link with the wide pull handle thing like some use for the draw bar. But the washers tacked to the implement are far cheaper!

 

[Haywire]

I bought one of those 2 to 1 bushings, cut it in half and had the local welding shop weld it in. I also had some tabs welded on so I could mount the pins facing in for easier mounting on my narrow 3PH.

Ian

 

[radioman]

I got to playing with it today, thought I'd post a couple pics. I also have a question. The lift pins are standard cat 1, but the hole for the top link pin is huge, the head of the pin will fall right through it. Kinda like they drilled it for a cat 2 or 3 pin. Anyone ever run into this? Is there a pin with a large head that won't fall through or will I just have to weld a doubler plate on it with a smaller hole? The spacing is also really wide like it's meant for a bigger top link.

Ian

Looks like you got the pin in wrong hole. That pin in pics should go on tractor and the one with shape almost like an L goes on the implement top link. If you had a BX24/25 you would know what I mean. The pwrbyd hose is in the way and MUST use that striaght pin on the tractor side only.

 

[Haywire]

I don't have one with an L shape, the pins on either end of the top link are identical. Came that way.

I was watching one of Everything Attachment's videos and noticed they used a big fender washer on the pin to keep it from falling through the hole. I just closed the hole up with a bushing so it would be the proper size.

Ian

 

[bikerdib]

This is probable one of the most versatile 3pt attachments made. I got one from TSC a few months ago. Mine came with the middlebuster blade but I took an old shredder blade and made a subsoiler tine for it also. I use it to bust roots on stumps I'm removing, digging trenches, making the middle of new ditches (I then come back with my rear blade set at an angel to make the ditch bank slope) and I'm getting ready to weld up a small tree/brush puller that will bolt on allowing me to simply back up to a small tree or bush and pull it up roots and all. My idea is to make a v notch from some 3X5 angle that will grab the trunk and latch on. Then I can back up as I lift the 3pt.

 

[OkieDave]

Holy smokes! Why didn't anybody tell me about these things sooner?

I just bought the same one jimgerken has. I tried tilling my soon-to-be garden patch on Friday, and I got 5" of nice, fluffy soil out of the tiller, sitting atop (very) hardpan--you could still see the cup-shaped cuts of the tines. I was wandering through TSC and saw these middlebusters and figured, for $120, it was worth a shot (it rang up at $119.95 here; tax put it at $129.85, I think).

I hooked it up, drove over to the garden patch, and set for full depth. Ripped the soil like soft butter. I went over it twice (perpendicular), and I'll refinish with the tiller, but wow, that took no time or effort at all. Afterward, I was having so much fun that I cut a trench for the invisible fence system I'm putting in (the dog has decided that the neighbor's cattle don't get enough exercise). I pulled the trench around a 1.5 acre lot in about fifteen minutes.

Neat toy!

 

[Gods Country]

Figured I would dig up this thread.

I just purchased a middle buster from TSC for my CCY scut.
I presume it is the same model that Haywire purchased.
I'm a bit leary of the XB, and can never find one to even look at so,
I did some measuring against other xb attachments, and found this
shorter model to be about the same height.
I have absolutely no issue with travel. I have a good 8" clearance.
The only issue I see is that I may need a shorter top link, or weld
a couple ears for another hole. My link is shortened all the way, and although the plow is pointed down I may want a steeper angle.

So if anyone is considering this model for their scut I don't see a problem.This is the SKU Number: 2128228 for reference.

CountyLine Middle Buster - 2128228 | Tractor Supply Company

BTW how deep do you scut owners manage to dig with your MB?

 

[kaferhaus]

Figured I would dig up this thread.

I just purchased a middle buster from TSC for my CCY scut.
I presume it is the same model that Haywire purchased.
I'm a bit leary of the XB, and can never find one to even look at so,
I did some measuring against other xb attachments, and found this
shorter model to be about the same height.
I have absolutely no issue with travel. I have a good 8" clearance.
The only issue I see is that I may need a shorter top link, or weld
a couple ears for another hole. My link is shortened all the way, and although the plow is pointed down I may want a steeper angle.

So if anyone is considering this model for their scut I don't see a problem.This is the SKU Number: 2128228 for reference.

CountyLine Middle Buster - 2128228 | Tractor Supply Company

BTW how deep do you scut owners manage to dig with your MB?

Mine is mounted on a MF1010 and I can bury the lower attachment pins....so basically all the way to the cross bar.

My ground is mostly on the soft side so I use it as a plow and then pull back over it with a rake if I'm going with a flat surface. I've also used it to dig up peanuts. For hard ground I use the rippers on the box blade then the MB. The MB doesn't work well on hard clay unless you take very light swipes with it over and over again so the Rippers make short work of that.