drawbar meets rotary cutter.

[Brad_Blazer]

My neighbor broke the blade on his 6' Bush Hog on Friday. It broke right at the pivot eye right after he had started up - not while cutting. Luckily it caught the back edge of the cover on the way out and didn't fly far. The break on one side was rusted so it had cracked some time ago. The back edge had a spot that looked pretty well hammered where the blades apparently clack together on startup. The PTO clutch on those Fords can engage pretty sharply. The other blade was less hammered and there were no cracks. Thinking about balance I recommended 2 new blades and that's what he got. Actually the style was slightly different so there was no question of using a new-old combination. The blade set that broke were a replacement set. The new ones were OEM.

Brad

 

[itsgottobegreen]

I noticed a semi square dent in the back of the rotary cutter when i was washing it down, the next morning i removed the rotary cutter to mount up the core aerator & i noticed my drawbar was missing. I returned to the feild and after a half hour of sniffing around i found it! I will post a photo of it this weekend. Hats off to landpride, i cant believe i did not break a blade!

Y'all know its funnier when he tells you this on the phone. You an't the only one that has done that. Lucky me, I only scooped mine up with my box scraper.