eddieirvine
Silver Member
CUTTER
Bush Hog
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Fielding
Bronze Member
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- Tractor
- 3038e
Build a good product, forever have your name associated with it.
NCL4701
Member
If I’m online, I call my rough cut rotary mower either a “rotary cutter” or refer to it by its actual moniker, “Howse 500”, in recognition of both those who obsess over semantics rather than communication and in recognition of the variance in colloquial terms from one locale to another. I also know if I went into a local implement dealership and inquired about a 72” PTO drive rough cut rotary cutter they’d look at me like I was a complete idiot and treat me accordingly. “Brush hog” would be better but still sounds like I just materialized from the internet. If I walk into the same dealership and ask something more like, “What y’all got in a 72” bush hog for a 47hp tractor? Something with some decent quality like a Woods or Bush Hog?” I won’t be treated like a stupid noob. Other areas may be different.
And I kind of like “bush hog” because although it is admittedly a brand name, when you say it everyone knows exactly what you’re talking about. They know it isn’t a finish mower, or a disc mower, or a flail mower, or a sickle bar, or anything else. It simply is the most precise term to communicate the message aside from “brush hog” which is really a mild modification of “bush hog” to avoid trademark issues for content creators.
Social media is slowly destroying colloquial variations but some things still vary by location. And if things such as bush hog v brush hog v rotary cutter are the things that keep you up at night, be thankful for your extraordinarily wonderful life.
And I kind of like “bush hog” because although it is admittedly a brand name, when you say it everyone knows exactly what you’re talking about. They know it isn’t a finish mower, or a disc mower, or a flail mower, or a sickle bar, or anything else. It simply is the most precise term to communicate the message aside from “brush hog” which is really a mild modification of “bush hog” to avoid trademark issues for content creators.
Social media is slowly destroying colloquial variations but some things still vary by location. And if things such as bush hog v brush hog v rotary cutter are the things that keep you up at night, be thankful for your extraordinarily wonderful life.
Fred Bear
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- Richmond, mi
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- Ford baby 8n, 821 Powermaster and NH TC-18
My "Bush Hog" is in my pants. My "Brush Hog" is attached to my tractor.
OzarkChris
Gold Member
Maybe, but it is always better to use your Mule with the donkey in the sky to choke your fell'd trees and bring 'em up from that ravine!
LyHale
New member
Greetings, tractor owners and mowers of fields. I thought it might be fun to resurrect this little beauty I created several years ago for another forum. Life may be full of changes – both good and bad – but it’s kind of nice to realize that our forums are pretty much the same old loveable places they have always been.
How many TractorByNet members does it take to mow a field?
1 to hitch up the field mower (bush hog, brush hog, rotary mower, etc.) and post photos of it being installed.
14 to share similar experiences of installing field mowers and how theirs were installed differently.
7 to caution about the dangers of installing field mowers.
1 to demand the thread be moved to another forum.
11 to defend posting about field mowers – under any name or euphemism commonly used by those who commonly used names or euphemisms for field mowers. All of us who have fields need mowers; therefore, posts about mowers are relevant anywhere except in the Pictures of Farm Women thread --unless, of course, the women are posing in, on or around field mowers.
36 to debate which method of hitching field mowers is superior, where to buy the best mowers, what to call them, etc.
8 to respond in anger that field mower suppliers have been rotten to them, so they should be flamed, and now’s just as good a time as any.
4 to caution against being unkind to suppliers, because they’re people too.
5 suppliers to answer with long descriptions of why it wasn’t their fault.
1 forum host to plead for an end to the negativity.
7 to post messages of agreement, most with additional shots at suppliers or those complaining about suppliers.
9 to add URL's where one can see examples of different mower applications.
4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly.
1 to post the corrected URL's.
7 to point out spelling and/or grammatical errors in posts about field mowers.
5 to flame the spell checkers.
3 to correct spelling and/or grammar in the flamer posts.
6 to argue over whether it's "spellcheck" or "spell check," then another …
6 to condemn those 6 as stupid.
5 industry professionals to inform the group about everything to date that was stated or pictured incorrectly.
15 guys to argue that they’ve always done it their way and nothing has fallen off yet -- well maybe once in a high-speed turn -- but that doesn’t really count because of the extra stresses in a fast corner.
13 to link all field mower posts, quoting them in their entirety (including all headers and signatures), and adding: "Me to."
5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the controversy.
4 to post: "Didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"
13 to post: "Do a Google search on field mowers before posting questions about them."
1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 years from now and start it all over again.
How many TractorByNet members does it take to mow a field?
1 to hitch up the field mower (bush hog, brush hog, rotary mower, etc.) and post photos of it being installed.
14 to share similar experiences of installing field mowers and how theirs were installed differently.
7 to caution about the dangers of installing field mowers.
1 to demand the thread be moved to another forum.
11 to defend posting about field mowers – under any name or euphemism commonly used by those who commonly used names or euphemisms for field mowers. All of us who have fields need mowers; therefore, posts about mowers are relevant anywhere except in the Pictures of Farm Women thread --unless, of course, the women are posing in, on or around field mowers.
36 to debate which method of hitching field mowers is superior, where to buy the best mowers, what to call them, etc.
8 to respond in anger that field mower suppliers have been rotten to them, so they should be flamed, and now’s just as good a time as any.
4 to caution against being unkind to suppliers, because they’re people too.
5 suppliers to answer with long descriptions of why it wasn’t their fault.
1 forum host to plead for an end to the negativity.
7 to post messages of agreement, most with additional shots at suppliers or those complaining about suppliers.
9 to add URL's where one can see examples of different mower applications.
4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly.
1 to post the corrected URL's.
7 to point out spelling and/or grammatical errors in posts about field mowers.
5 to flame the spell checkers.
3 to correct spelling and/or grammar in the flamer posts.
6 to argue over whether it's "spellcheck" or "spell check," then another …
6 to condemn those 6 as stupid.
5 industry professionals to inform the group about everything to date that was stated or pictured incorrectly.
15 guys to argue that they’ve always done it their way and nothing has fallen off yet -- well maybe once in a high-speed turn -- but that doesn’t really count because of the extra stresses in a fast corner.
13 to link all field mower posts, quoting them in their entirety (including all headers and signatures), and adding: "Me to."
5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the controversy.
4 to post: "Didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"
13 to post: "Do a Google search on field mowers before posting questions about them."
1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 years from now and start it all over again.
RedLeaf
New member
We all tend to call products by brand names instead of generic names.
For example, Kleenex instead of Tissue, Thermos instead of Flask, Hoover (British) instead of Vacuum Cleaner, Xerox instead of Photocopier, Velcro instead of hook-and-loop, and Skill Saw instead of Circular Saw.
I, too, call my JD MX6 a Bush Hog.
If you are going to be picky, you have hundreds of brand names being used generally; you'll go batty!
For example, Kleenex instead of Tissue, Thermos instead of Flask, Hoover (British) instead of Vacuum Cleaner, Xerox instead of Photocopier, Velcro instead of hook-and-loop, and Skill Saw instead of Circular Saw.
I, too, call my JD MX6 a Bush Hog.
If you are going to be picky, you have hundreds of brand names being used generally; you'll go batty!
SCHMALSHOF
New member
- Joined
- Nov 5, 2011
- Messages
- 2
I am completely in agreement. I work in parts at a JD dealer and we also carried Bush Hog brand mowers and equipment. People would come in and want parts for their "Bush Hog" and get confused when I would pull out the Bush Hog catalog and then they would look at me like I was dumb when they really wanted parts for their John Deere rotary cutter. Bush Hog also produced blades, loaders, zero turn mowers, landscape rakes, tillers, post hole diggers, among other things.
nolewatcher
Member
Don't forget the "Crescent Wrench"...
Just use a Kleenex to dry that tear and maybe drink a Coke. Popular culture turns brand names into generic names all the time. Annoying but what can you do?