Easy way to uncross bush hog blades

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RalphVa

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Location
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Tractor
JD 2025R, previously Gravely 5650 & JD 4010 & JD 1025R
I hit a stump yesterday with the bush hog and shut down. Restarted tractor and restarted bush hog. Too much vibration. Shut it down and went back to the garage. Parked with the hog in the air at the top of the carriage house ramp. Blades are crossed. Happened one time on the 4010 and LX-4. These seem locked tighter.

Anyone have something they've done to make this easier? I may have to actually remove one blade to get them unstuck. If so, I'll remove the other and do my sharpening (more like raggedy edge straightening) now.

Fortunately, I was done for the day: just running up on my neighbor's side cutting down weeds.

Ralph
 
   / Easy way to uncross bush hog blades #2  
A big hammer.
 
   / Easy way to uncross bush hog blades #3  
Run over the same stump in the opposite direction.

You're welcome.



:)
 
   / Easy way to uncross bush hog blades #4  
I guess I have been lucky, I have never had this happen and have never heard of it happening.
 
   / Easy way to uncross bush hog blades #5  
I keep a hammer in the tool box on my tractor. Just raise the mower and wack it as hard as you can, as many times as it takes.
 
   / Easy way to uncross bush hog blades #6  
Run over the same stump in the opposite direction.

You're welcome.



:)

In your location they wouldn't have crossed.

Do they spin the opposite direction like a toilet flushing ? :)
 
   / Easy way to uncross bush hog blades #7  
I think I used a pry bar to unstick mine but a hammer would probably do the trick, too.
 
   / Easy way to uncross bush hog blades #8  
I've used a 3lb sledge before, in the field... but thinking about it now, the hammer while prying some separation with a crowbar would probably require a lot less hits!
 
   / Easy way to uncross bush hog blades #9  
In your location they wouldn't have crossed.

Do they spin the opposite direction like a toilet flushing ? :)

Nah Mate, they spin in the same direction... just 'upside down' to you. :thumbsup:
 
   / Easy way to uncross bush hog blades #10  
However you decide to do it, some prelube between the blades' mating surfaces couldn't hurt.

Got a picture of it?
 
 

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