Bringing new life to the Rotary Cutter

[BMan2005]

Bought a 7' Bushwacker 8410 second hand not long ago. Mower had some bumps and bruises but everything was in excellent mechanical condition other than I need a new stump jumper pan. For what I got it for, the condition it was in, and these run new I figured I would by it, go over well, and have a great true HD mower to last me a long long time.

Anyhow, I'm now in the process of removing all the rusted bolts, old rust, and repainting it. I decided to tear it completely down so I could try to do this just one and have everything painted and sealed to keep the rust at bay. Ran over it with a 4.5" twisted wire cup on my grinder, put three coats of Ospho to treat and seal what remained, and just put the first coat of primer on. Finished color will be NH blue to match the tractor.

 

[BMan2005]

Putting on the first coat of Ospho, After 3 treatments of Ospho, and first coat of primer.

 

[M5farms]

Looks good.

 

[BMan2005]

Looks good.

Thanks man. If I had it to do over again prepping the steel for paint I think I would load everything on the trailer and carry it to be sand blasted. Been a long drawn out job with the amount of surface rust it had. But I will say it's done a nice job cleaning it up, just time consuming.

 

[rkidd]

Thanks man. If I had it to do over again prepping the steel for paint I think I would load everything on the trailer and carry it to be sand blasted. Been a long drawn out job with the amount of surface rust it had. But I will say it's done a nice job cleaning it up, just time consuming.

Thats funny you say that about the sand blasting. I am in the middle of doing the exact same thing on a brush hog. Tore it all apart, used a 4 1/2" grinder with a cup brush also. ( will post pics) Neighbor said he had a brother that would sandblast my 4 ft brush hog for $125.00. I thought that was high, and retired I have time to do it. Well after about a day and a half, I think I will sand blast next time. As you say, it came out good, but what a job!!

 

[BMan2005]

Thats funny you say that about the sand blasting. I am in the middle of doing the exact same thing on a brush hog. Tore it all apart, used a 4 1/2" grinder with a cup brush also. ( will post pics) Neighbor said he had a brother that would sandblast my 4 ft brush hog for $125.00. I thought that was high, and retired I have time to do it. Well after about a day and a half, I think I will sand blast next time. As you say, it came out good, but what a job!!

Yeah, by the time I bought a new twisted wire cup, brush, and Ospho I'm close to the cost of sand blasting. Don't even need to think about my time invested.

 

[BMan2005]

Like the old saying, "If you want the wind to blow start a fire". Well if you want it to rain try to paint in my case! :mur:

Was belong to be perfect conditions today and rain Sunday night through Tuesday so I figured I could get a second coat on my mower and first on all the parts I stripped off. Didn't happen! Rain built up just before lunch and humidity is now going to be high after it moves out before the big rain makes it tomorrow now. On top of that, the oil based primer is extremely slow to dry for the next coats, been almost 48hrs and the first coat is still a little soft. But I'm trying to follow the paint manufactures instructions to be sure it comes out right.

I think on my next project a set of 9' Taylor way disk I plan to re finish I'll look into just putting color matched bedliner on it so I can coat it in one day. This is becoming time consuming.

 

[shaeff]

Like the old saying, "If you want the wind to blow start a fire". Well if you want it to rain try to paint in my case! :mur:

Was belong to be perfect conditions today and rain Sunday night through Tuesday so I figured I could get a second coat on my mower and first on all the parts I stripped off. Didn't happen! Rain built up just before lunch and humidity is now going to be high after it moves out before the big rain makes it tomorrow now. On top of that, the oil based primer is extremely slow to dry for the next coats, been almost 48hrs and the first coat is still a little soft. But I'm trying to follow the paint manufactures instructions to be sure it comes out right.

I think on my next project a set of 9' Taylor way disk I plan to re finish I'll look into just putting color matched bedliner on it so I can coat it in one day. This is becoming time consuming.

Keep at it! It'll be worth it when it's complete!

PS- post a pic of your pup, looks like a good helper!

 

[BMan2005]

That's what I'm hoping for. Besides I'm in to deep to back out now. Lol

This is her doing what she loves man. She's with me about everywhere I go, just the best dog I could ask for.

 

[shaeff]

That's what I'm hoping for. Besides I'm in to deep to back out now. Lol This is her doing what she loves man. She's with me about everywhere I go, just the best dog I could ask for.

Aw man she looks awesome, she's loving it for sure! Beautiful pup!

 

[BMan2005]

Aw man she looks awesome, she's loving it for sure! Beautiful pup!

Thanks

 

[BMan2005]

Second coat of primer applied 2 days ago. Still soft so maybe Saturday it'll be hard enough to apply the top coat. Paint definitely takes its time. I could possibly go ahead and put the top coat on but the paint manufacture says wait until you can't leave a fingernail mark between coats.

 

[WranglerX]

If you have pressure washer....

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Dale

 

[BMan2005]

If you have pressure washer....

Pressure Washer Sandblast Kits + Nozzles | Northern Tool + Equipment

Dale

I do, I believe 3000psi. I do know it's a 9hp. I looked at those because it would come in handy alot, but I read mixed reviews about them. Do you have one and if so how do you like it?

 

[BMan2005]

Have the second coat of NH blue on everything, going to put one more coat on and call it good then give it a week or two to harden before I reassemble it and that'll give me time to go get all the new bolts. I will say the top coats with Hardener dried much faster. I was able to recoat the next day.

 

[shaeff]

Looks fantastic!

 

[BMan2005]

Looks fantastic!

Appreciate it, I'll add the final pictures after I get it reassembled with before and after shots. I think it should have a long lasting life now.

 

[MOTractor]

That looks great! Was the primer brush on or spray? What type of paint did you use?

 

[BMan2005]

1st coat was brushed on, we went through a spell of high winds for weeks and doing this outdoors it was to windy and some rains we're forecasted after I finished prepping it so I had to get some primer on it. After that everything has been sprayed. Using Majic's tractor & implement paint (1st time using this brand) being the only one I could find locally that color matched my NH.

 

[BMan2005]

Been waiting on these