Oh the things that go through a rotary cutter......Tree stumps are the usual things. This year alone I started the season off cutting tractor high wheat/rye from the past winter food plots and the field had a few groundhog dens in it. Rough to hit one of these and the tool box broke loose from the back of the tractor....a 50 cal ammo box that had been on there for 5 years, and it made a pass through the cutter. Cutter was fine, box destroyed but tools in the box all landed only a few feet away and in two different piles. Had to use the "red wrench"to get the bottom of the can open. Then just today I dodged a bullet while checking a lot I cut on the way to my hunting land. It is a 70 acre plot that is behind a grave yard and they maintain the graveyard themselves but there is a triangle piece of land just past the cemetery that borders on the highway running back to the gate entering my land. As a "good neighbor policy" when I am cutting my land I also cut the triangle too to make the graveyard look symetrical and it only takes me a few minutes. Well today I was removing some flowers that had blown from the cemetery in a storm onto my property and placing them back on the property line. As I was checking this a piece of thin metal fence post, actually 4 pieces, was seen in the grass. Now for the luck part.....there was 100 feet of 1/4 inch metal wire cable strung through it and along the ground. Glad I caught that before it wrapped around the brush hog and I spent the rest of my life removing that mess. I now have 100 feet of wire cable and the posts will be used to stabilize some timbers for a water table with the ends off the trail.
