Cutting tall, wet grass with a bushog.

[JDeerekid]

Cutting wet wil not hurt anything. It will wear the blades a little faster but how often do you have a nice cutting edge on your bush hog blades anyway. I just got done mowing approx 5 acres that was very wet. You do notice it puts a little more load on your tractor so sometimes you might have to slow down a little, but other than that no problem. Also the grass will clump up a little more that when it is dry, but as you said you are not worried about looks.

 

[SPYDERLK]

Originally Posted by john_bud
I would rather cut when the brush is wet with dew. It's much better than dry and dusty! MUCH.

Same here! Some grass/weeds cut better when a little wet. It seems to stand in there and allow the mower to cut it clean.

Im with you guys.

 

[tld]

.................and ever other day. Right, Soundguy?

 

[Soundguy]

If you are refering to rain.. then every day..

soundguy

 

[tjkadar]

My brush hog has been down with a flat tire for about a week. I'll most likely be cutting in the rain this evening. The question, in my mind, is how do you get a flat on a laminated tire? Well, I managed to do it and now I know how they assemble such treasures in India...

 

[Soundguy]

That's a good one... Them laminated wheels usually where the axle and spindle out befor ethe laminated plies comes of fthe center disc..

soundguy

 

[RobJ]

... when you got to mow.. you got to mow..

Yes it is as simple as this......

But I'm not a follower of the dull RC blade that smashes through stuff. I keep my little 4 footer with a decently sharpe edge on it. And I'll pull the blades and sharpen it a couple times a year. Especially when I'm clearing ATV trails in the small Elms, when I cut them the tree gets bent over, and sort of sliced at the curved part. , if the tree brings my little L fronts off the ground, then I know the tree is a little to big!!

 

[tjkadar]

Got home and got the wheel fixed around 8:00 PM. Did about 20 minutes of hogging to make sure things worked. Gotta love all the lights on a cab tractor!

I'll try to get some pics of my laminated flat tire. It was a new one on me!

 

[Soundguy]

Yes it is as simple as this......

But I'm not a follower of the dull RC blade that smashes through stuff. I keep my little 4 footer with a decently sharpe edge on it. And I'll pull the blades and sharpen it a couple times a year. Especially when I'm clearing ATV trails in the small Elms, when I cut them the tree gets bent over, and sort of sliced at the curved part. , if the tree brings my little L fronts off the ground, then I know the tree is a little to big!!

I like a dull-ish blade for 2 reasons.

1, a sharp blade cuts the tree off so clean that it don't kill it and suckers come back up... A dulish blade thrashes the tree and usually kills it.

2, little 3" and 4" tapp sharp shaved off sappling stubs are just looking to find soft tires to poke thru... never had a thrashed one poke a tire.. but have had a sharpened one eat a tire.. especially side wall damage..

soundguy

 

[RobJ]

I like a dull-ish blade for 2 reasons.

1, a sharp blade cuts the tree off so clean that it don't kill it and suckers come back up... A dulish blade thrashes the tree and usually kills it.

2, little 3" and 4" tapp sharp shaved off sappling stubs are just looking to find soft tires to poke thru... never had a thrashed one poke a tire.. but have had a sharpened one eat a tire.. especially side wall damage..

soundguy

The reasoning is sound, but when I look at a patch of saplings I just went through, even with a good edge the ends are pretty fuzzy. The blades hit them more than once because when I'm in the woods I'm in 1st or second gear(slow). In the same area or trail I'll go over where the trees were another time or to to mulch them up. The staubs are never sharp like they were hit once with an axe. Might be because I have a light weight tractor. I did poke a hole while bushhogging with a neighbors 50 hp Ford 4630, rear wheel. That was using his old RC. that was a $50 mistake to call someone out to fix it. That tractor is a lot heavier. Might the kind of trees to. A pine might be worse than an elm or yaupon.