Catastrophic failure with Hydraulics

[4570Man]

Sticks are hard on equipment. Especially delicate equipment.

 

[DieselBound]

I have towed both my B7800 (with a truck) and my NX5510 (with the B7800), on my property. The B7800 had a piece of brush pop off the soft line from the hard line on the return: HST, dead in the water! NX5510 broke a travel pedal return spring (killed the position sensors).

I, like many here, have done all sorts of I'd-rather-nots because the situation required it. Sometimes you just have to do what is necessary: one guts it out.

 

[BeezFun]

I was using bush hog on a trail thru the forest, brushing up against trees but nothing heavy. All of a sudden the tractor goes to idle and won't go any faster. Can't figure out what's wrong, pop the hood. A small branch had poked through one of those little screen covered openings in the side of the hood and managed to hit the mechanical linkage for the throttle. I could have spent years trying to make that happen and never even come close.

 

[DieselBound]

I was using bush hog on a trail thru the forest, brushing up against trees but nothing heavy. All of a sudden the tractor goes to idle and won't go any faster. Can't figure out what's wrong, pop the hood. A small branch had poked through one of those little screen covered openings in the side of the hood and managed to hit the mechanical linkage for the throttle. I could have spent years trying to make that happen and never even come close.

Always keep in mind that Mother Nature bats last! We can keep up in the battle but eventually...

Brush and CUTs don't go together real well. I enjoy going at brush with wild abandon when using commercial grade pieces of equipment (excavators, skidsteers etc), equipment that is built to handle it (though they get you into the situations of dealing with a lot more weight, in which bigger and scarier and COSTLIER troubles can make you wish you were doing lowly brush battles with a CUT).

 

[Diwali]

If you have to tow remember the power steering won’t be working. A Cat 2 tractor or bigger can be a ‘gorilla arm’ job to steer without power.

 

[big bubba]

weed wack area underneath chassis, cover underneath w/tarp, then drop skid plate in the field. have to do it anyway, you're not digging into the engine, so do it there. hopefully nothing damaged already, doing it in the field would minimize further damage

you'll lose a gallon or 2 of fluid in the filter change...some will recommend using shop vac over hyd fluid input, never tried. filter(s) will take a few qts anyway tried changing filters once on slope, no difference 5 gal pail pumps are great for the job.
as a footnote, when changing the filters, go ahead & lose extra runoff by taking time to clean filter strainers once filter(s) are removed. sorry for stating obvious, but devil's in details.

https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200612566_200612566

lucky to have caught it early. should be straightforward best of luck
sounds like your issue was thankfully not catastrophic (so far)