Help! Sucked up 100' hose in tiller

[California]

Popster, listen to Sixdogs.

You're stuck just digging it out with a sharp knife and patience.
Here's a tool I made that makes life a lot easier when these things happen.

I made a similar tool to get weeds out of my tiller. A cheap linoleum knife from Harbor Freight

with its handle driven into a piece of conduit. With this I can reach in from either side of the tiller to cut out weeds. This works fine for the few hours per year I run the tiller. If I did this for a living I would make a better quality tool like Sixdog's.

For cutting out that hose you might want heavy pipe for the handle, so you have some inertia to rip the hose when you yank on it.

If its only weeds clogging the tiller - the remedy is to mow first!

 

[sixdogs]

Popster, listen to Sixdogs.

I made a similar tool to get weeds out of my tiller. A cheap linoleum knife from Harbor Freight

with its handle driven into a piece of conduit. With this I can reach in from either side of the tiller to cut out weeds. This works fine for the few hours per year I run the tiller. If I did this for a living I would make a better quality tool like Sixdog's.

For cutting out that hose you might want heavy pipe for the handle, so you have some inertia to rip the hose when you yank on it.

If its only weeds clogging the tiller - the remedy is to mow first!

Good advice. Thank you.

I use my HD tiller about 30 to 50 hours a year and get into all sorts of stuff that often winds itself tight before I figure out what's going on. The tool I made relies on a pulling action with that sharpened internal radius. That way I can get all the bad stuff off and not bang up my hand or rely on a direct cutting action. It as a pretty long handle so I can easily reach in. I usually chisel plow first so whatever is going to get wound up has an easy time doing it. I rarely get grass but find a lot of other things. :laughing:

I've easily cut off baling twine wrapped real tight but it didn't work on the 3/4" or larger wire cable that got one full wrap on before I bogged down. That one took a while.

 

[pmsmechanic]

You guys are all talking easy stuff except for some of the boat and prop stories. Try page wire or barbed wire in the tracks and sprocket of a D6 Cat.

 

[GPintheMitten]

I'ld say that hose is toast. I think you should buy a new one.

 

[Utopia Texas]

I've always used a acetylene torch. Just be sure to sit up wind of the action with garden hoses. Will cut your time by 90%.

 

[sixdogs]

You guys are all talking easy stuff except for some of the boat and prop stories. Try page wire or barbed wire in the tracks and sprocket of a D6 Cat.

OK...we have a winner. How would you even get that off?

I've always used a acetylene torch. Just be sure to sit up wind of the action with garden hoses. Will cut your time by 90%.

Wow...if you're close enough to the barn that has some real possibilities.

 

[pmsmechanic]

OK...we have a winner. How would you even get that off?

Well lets just say I was lucky and saw the page wire coming over the top of the track the first time. I could back up about a foot at a time and cut it and slowly work it back off the track. In about half an hour I was going again. I didn't have any wire wrapped around the final drive. My neighbour however didn't notice the barbed wire right away and he said it took him about 4 hours with pliers and side cutters. He was just happy he didn't have to pull the final drive to replace the seal on the sprocket.

 

[treman]

Man these are some good ones. I have a friend at work that got about 120 of tower support wire/ guy wire wound up in the batwing. It was around 2 of the spindles and I think was 3/4 inch thick might have been 1/2. Real nasty. That took all of a couple hours and a torch to get it all off. That's what we get for waiting until the grass is 4 ft high the year after they did the tower maintenance.