Generalized Questions

[MossRoad]

I've hit stuff with my 48" brush cutter that really scares me. Once, out by the highway, I hit a 4" ratcheting tie down assembly and strap. That came back and obliterated the left, rear wheel on the brush cutter. I've hit softball sized rocks that have bounced well over a hundred feet. I once was mowing along and hit some 2" branches. As one flew out, spinning away from me, I had time to think to myself, "That looks just like a boomerang..." and guess what? It went out about 50', turned around and came right back at me! Landed about 5' from the tractor! But by far, the worst thing I've hit has been dead turkeys. At least once a year, I'll run over a dead turkey and the maggots and smell about kill me! :laughing: The only thing I ever find besides the feathers, is a claw and the shin bone.

 

[ponytug]

OMG- rotting turkey carcasses. Wow, I can't even begin to imagine how bad it is to hit a maggot infested dead turkey.

If I thought they were out in my fields, I'd be mowing with an electrically powered gas mask. I nominate you for the TBN Order of Brush cutter Extraordinaire, the TBN OBE, to be referred to as Sir MR. :cool2: Go forth and keep the world safe for the rest of us.

All the best,

Peter

 

[cqaigy2]

Yes, i vote with ponytug, that MR be the official rotting carcass crusher! Thank you for taking one for the team.

 

[Barryh]

A dead Turkey tosser didn't know Power Trac made an attachment for that... :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

Yep, we have dozens of turkeys out there that roost in our pines. They'll cross the hwy in groups of 50-60 and its right over the crest of a hill, so BOOM! dead turkey. Then they lay in the tall grass next to the road for a couple days until I find them

 

[k0ua]

Man, I bet that rotten turkey would puke a maggot off of a gutwagon... eyuck.:yuck:

 

[Soundguy]

Hit a dead deer once.. Overcomming....

 

[MossRoad]

How dead was it?

 

[Soundguy]

dead, smelly, jucy, flies, maggots, and it 'popped' when hit by the mower.

I had to avoid that area of the field for an hour till the aroma burned off in the sun and the wet bits in the tall brush dried, before I would drive thru again.

yummy.

 

[woodlandfarms]

Why,,, Why,,, Why do I read this forum when I am eating breakfast.... why......

 

[Barryh]

Hmmm guess I'm lucky, the worst that ever happened to me was a mouse that had crawled up inside one of my Kubota lift arms and died .... Now go finish your bacon and eggs.... :yuck: :laughing:

 

[Soundguy]

Mouse..

Reminds me of a time when I was roading my NH 7610s and batwing to my pasture. A mouse had been killed at startup as I saw a tail fly out of the fan, didn't see the body. Found out on the drive, the body landed on the manifold and I got to smell stinky rat sizle and singe all the way to the pasture.. 4-5 mile drive smelling burning mouse hair pee, poo.. Etc..

 

[MossRoad]

We used to have an IH2500b tractor loader with full cab. I'd leave it out on our tree farm all year. In the early winter, I'd build a wood frame around it and cover it with a tarp. Every time I'd go to check on it for several years, some animal would kill a rabbit, drag it into the cab somehow, and leave its fur and entrails on my seat!

 

[MossRoad]

Hit a dead deer once.. Overcomming....

How dead was it?

dead, smelly, jucy, flies, maggots, and it 'popped' when hit by the mower.

I had to avoid that area of the field for an hour till the aroma burned off in the sun and the wet bits in the tall brush dried, before I would drive thru again.

yummy.

That's pretty dead! :laughing: