General bush hog questions

[RSKY]

I agree with setting the top link like you guys are saying but in the very thick stuff I mowed this fall the wheel wasn't touching the ground. Had everything set so all brush went out the back.

RSKY

 

[DieselBound]

I agree with setting the top link like you guys are saying but in the very thick stuff I mowed this fall the wheel wasn't touching the ground. Had everything set so all brush went out the back.

RSKY

Oh, man! I pull up the tail on my BH286 and run back into tall brush and drop it down: even drop the tail over the sides of ditches (not the most efficient, having to jockey to be perpendicular, but it's better than the alternative- doing it by hand).* Hydraulic top links are great! Of course, there's nothing around (way out on the property), so no worries about flying material. In normal operating position, though, it's nice to have the chain guards (or whatever you call them): really take a beating.

* One has to be very sure that one's PTO shaft allows for sufficient overlap at such extremes; and, that you're operating within the specified range angle-wise of the PTO shaft. I was surprised to find that, as raked as it could look, with the tail WAY up (max) and WAY down (max) that the difference in length and angle were not much at all: I measured.