Brush Mowers for places too small for bushhog

[coobie]

They work... but will also work you out.

People buy them and think you can run them one handed like you see in the adds,.... not so much. Then they come up for sale.

Bottom line, they work well for what they are. If it can push it over it'll cut it. Just be prepared for the workout.

Boy you have that correct.I bought a used billy goat(10hp honda)this year off the local craigs list with thoughts of extended my trails some.BOY OH BOY this puppy will give a man in his 50,s a decent workout.LOL,coobie.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I bought an old 17 HP DR brush lower and loaded yesterrday.. stone mountain park was only 15 miles away so it took10 hours to go 15 hours. Yes I have the kids with me and they loved the snow tubing.

Chattanooga has their attention for today so it will be Sun or later before I get it unloaded.

The E-Bay seller made a mistake. I finally heard back from DR support as to the age of the mower. The seller stated it was 12 years old but the mower and engine manuals he gave me both had 2004 copy write dates. DR said they shipped the mower April 2005 so it is going on 6 years old and not 12.

I was going to use it again today but it rained ALL day.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Well today with temps in the 60's I got the property lines cut with the DR Brush mower that were bugging me. I should have bought one 20 years ago.

None of what I cut today could have been done with the tractor and bush hog. About once every 4-5 years should keep this line clear because of the size of bushes it can cut and keep going. When we cut the line off initally with saws we got the stumps low so today I was able to desucker them with the DR just fine.

I killed it a couple times today and sure would not want less than the 17 HP that we have due to the 30" deck. There are times I wished it weight 5 pounds but all 350 is desired when grinding on a 2" tree.

 

[JakeBrake]

We had a serious thunderstorm pass through last night that knocked out our power.

This morning I removed the brushcutter from the DR and installed the 6KW generator. Ran it for about 6 hours to keep the freezer and refrigerator up and to do some light cooking until the power came back on this evening.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

We had a serious thunderstorm pass through last night that knocked out our power.

This morning I removed the brushcutter from the DR and installed the 6KW generator. Ran it for about 6 hours to keep the freezer and refrigerator up and to do some light cooking until the power came back on this evening.

Do you have problems keeping the Hz on 60 or does it regulate the voltage/Hz electronically? Our 1992 Kohler in the motor home does it electronically as long as the generator output is closs to the target output.

I would like one, the grader blade and chipper but there seems to be few used ones on the market. I still plan to use the frame of the 42" deck mower to build a little truck bed on for going into the woods with saw and stuff or to haul things around the house where bigger equipment really would not be ideal.

Having just purchased our used 17 HP DR field and brush mower I have to say I am impressed. It would not start when it was cold because the cable like 3/16" fully closing so I just loosen the screw holding the cable at the carb end moved it so the choke sealed and now it fires off when it is below freezing. I do have 5W-40 Rotella T6 Synthetic oil in it. The brakes did not work either and again it was a simple adjustment.

After about 8 hours total use time it is not that hard to control which is not what I was saying after the first couple hours. Getting the heavy duty bush hog blade made a HUGE improvement in performance.

I will have to say using it is the hardest I have worked at a task hour after hour in twenty years.:laughing:

 

[jinjimbob]

Mine came with a cover to put on in the winter, never used it though.

I also bought the chipper, really like that add on.
I have the blade, but never used it.

 

[Ken45101]

The brakes did not work either and again it was a simple adjustment.

That is an improvement they have added. My ten year old DR does not have brakes at all.

Ken

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Last summer a neighbor had a stroke and we had the DR there clean up one corner on the yard that had been over run with bushes. It was cutting heavy brush very well then it went to knocking. We pulled of the deck cover and when engaged the belt was jerking and slapping when normally it runs very smoothly. I was so stressed out that I broke it the son walked it home and it has set untouched since last summer.

Our pastor wants my son to cut back a fence row that has crept into the yard over the years so the son got it out after setting a year with no battery charging since we put it up. He choked it and it fired up and ran fine with the old gas (pure gas). We engaged the blade and the same jerking and slapping started like it was doing last year.

We laid it on its side so we could see the belt engaging cable work. It was all fine but I noticed a bulge in the belt at the rear belt pulley.

It turned out in the very heavy brush a dead piece of limb about 1.5" long had wedged in the V of the pulley and it was making the belt go very tight causing the jerking and slapping of the belt. He just dug the piece of wood out of the V pulley and all was well so he mowed for about 15 minutes in the edge of the woods just to prove it was working well.

Then we washed it up very well and put it back up and are recharging the battery the AGM battery from WM that we installed last year. Before we take it on that rather large job we are going to change the oil and add Ceratec to ceramic coat the engine wear parts. It is to help air cool engines run a few degrees cooler has well.

After tearing down the junk Polaris 325 cc engine that we patched up with a bad crank just as a Ceratec test bed I am sold on Ceratec does as Liqui-Moly states after running the bad engine for 1,000,000 revolutions with a chewed up crank and an new Standard size rod bearing. After that 11 hours of run time the rod bearing was cut down and was knocking under a load but the chewed up crank had smoothed up some and the cam lobes showed a glass look and were very slick.

After a year of fretting over breaking the DR it turned out only to be a small piece of stick stuck in the V pulley. That fact made my day since we need to use the walk behind 2.5' bush hog.

 

[Happy Gilmore]

I have a Billy Goat Outback walk behind brush mower. It works well for it's intended purpose, but it's definitely a workout. Well built machine, I like it. My girlfriend gave it a whirl last year, needless to say she's not asking for round 2 :laughing: