Detaching a brush hog from cat1 3point hitch

[TBURNSK]

I've never had a three point hitch, so you can appreciate my embarassment when a new neighbor asked for help with her tractor. Yes she is 20 years younger and a lot prettier than myself, so I was completely embarassed when I couldn't show her how to get the brush hog off the three point hitch.

It appears that you have to remove the pins holding the draw bars to the mower, but they wouldn't budge????

It is a brand new JD 4010 with a corresponding JD 4 ft brush hog. Please help me restore my machismo!

 

[higgy]

There are three points plus the pto to take off.

There are 2 pins at the end of the lower lift arm that you need to remove and slide the arms outward until they clear the pins on the mower.

There is a pin in the center link to remove and slide the pin out from the frame (the whole pin is removed). The pto has a button on the side of the coupler that you push in and remove by sliding the whole drive shaft off in a rearward motion.

The mower should be flat on the ground before starting removal of any of the linch pins.

This can be hard to do if the mower sits differently than it did when hooked up, a very real possibility. It should not take too much to get the lift arms off but sometimes it needs a little convincing like a quick boot.

PLEASE INSURE THAT THE TRACTOR IS OFF AND THE PTO IS DISINGAGED BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE THE MOWER.

Dane

 

[MikePA]

<font color="blue"> It appears that you have to remove the pins holding the draw bars to the mower, but they wouldn't budge???? </font>
Sometimes you have to slightly, very slightly, raise or lower the 3ph so the lower 3ph arms are not binding on the pins. Also, there are sway adjusters on the lower 3ph arms that prevent the cutter from moving left and right. Make sure these are loosened or you wont be able to swing the lower arms off the pins.

 

[Bob_Skurka]

BRUISED MANHOOD? Sounds like a job for Tim THE TOOLMAN Taylor! I would suggest a rubber mallet. Seriously, I have used a rubber mallet to pound the lower links off of pins numerous times.

But BEFORE you start beating on the lovely neighbor's new machine, you need to get the lynch pins off.

The other thing to take a look at on those two lower links is to see if there is some sort of device that prevents them from being spread apart and limit sway.

On my B2910, there is a sliding thing with a bunch of holes in it and a pin that locks them in place, if her JD has one of those things, you need to remove the pins to allow the lower links to spread. On my TC24D there are turnbuckles that prevent sway of the lower links, sometimes it is necessary to adjust the turnbuckles to get the lower links to spread far enough to disengage. On a lot of older tractors there was a parallel bar that acted as an antisway bar for the lower links. Again, I'm not sure what the lower link arms of that JD model look like, but there is probably some sort of anti-sway type restrictor.

As others have said, turn the tractor off, have it on level ground, etc.

 

[beenthere]

My suggestion is to find someone to show you (and her) who "knows" how to remove (and attach) the brush hog rotary cutter, as seing it done will be easier than sorting through the bits of information you are getting here. There is a sequence to go through that will make it easy enough to do without kicking and hammering, and even the younger, prettier one will be able to do it, although she may get some grease on her hands from the PTO. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[dty]

how come there is no picture of the pretty young neighbor and her new tractor? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[bigtractor]

Either band saw or torch the lift arms off about 6" infront of the lift pins.

Dave

 

[rozett]

One of things that I find helpful in detaching and (moreso) in reattaching the brush mower, is to set it down onto 4x4s or cement blocks. This gives you a little extra room to take the slack out of the lift arms.

 

[Freds]

I set mine down on a piece of steel pipe in the front, that way I can skid it around slightly when I remove the lower lift arms.
Some pto shafts have a twist collar as opposed to a pin that hold it onto the pto shaft.

 

[tc35dforme]

<font color="blue"> Either band saw or torch the lift arms off about 6" infront of the lift pins.
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