Bush Hog

[Sawyer Rob]

G'Day.....
Here in the Great White North we call them Brush Hogs... eh....

Like said. Brush Hog is a manufacturer and the term is used like the name Frigidaire is used for the appliance, refrigerator.

Bush Hog is a MFG., NOT brush hog...

SR

 

[LightningCamaroGuy]

I only knew of them as bush hogs until the internets.

Like someone else said it's like calling a tissue a Kleenex, or a bandage a bandaid. Also like calling a trimmer a Weed Eater. The only one of those I might call the so called proper term is a tissue when referring to the intended product. I've always thought of calling a bush hog a rotary cutter, or brush hog, or calling a weed eater a trimmer as trying to be so called politically correct but it's whatever. I'm sure it's likely referred to as different things based on where you're from.

 

[DieselBound]

"Brush mower" (that can also mow grass and weeds)!

Hogs can root out crap, while these mowers cannot (unless they're grabbing something and tearing out, in which case things can get ugly).

I think "bush hog" is like "iron horse" ([what North American Indians initially referred to trains as). My brush mower (rotary cutter) is, however, an actual Bush Hog (which I'm always wanting to refer to has a bRush hog).

 

[greggyy]

Yeah....

Brush cutter...mower....slasher etc would ve better

Brush is what we call small shrubs and over groth......bush is more like forest or the woods in US terms when used down here....

I did not realise it was a brand.....so they must be a US focused company.

 

[greggyy]

G'Day.....
Here in the Great White North we call them Brush Hogs... eh....

Like said. Brush Hog is a manufacturer and the term is used like the name Frigidaire is used for the appliance, refrigerator.

How ever I do agree the better term to use would be "slasher" because of the job they do on grass, weeds, brush.

There are a number of people in this area from OZ. And a few from Canada that have spent time "down under". It is fun comparing terms, like Loo from the Brits, Dunny, and Canadian term washroom.

The ways we are different and the ways we are the same. Interesting....

Canadians are prob close too many Aus things as well as you have a mix of US and EU in many such areas.

But down here real estate agents call the loo or bathroom or restroom with a toilet a WC for water closet....but no Aussie calls the shithouse a water closet not even the rich posh ones....bathroom is coomon used for washroom with a toilet....or rstroom as many in US say.....no resting when were in there though