HELP WITH HOOKING UP BRUSHOG UPDATE

[Anonymous Poster]

Hello again. This is concerning the posting I did yesterday with my questions on how to set up a brush hog. Well I am one day more experienced and for now have solved the problem, with help from this forum.

I first took off the upper link and used the left arms to raise front end up 2-3 inches from bottom of mower front to ground and tried it. It worked perfectly this way. The rear is able to go up and down and conform to the ground you are mowing.

I next got a length of chain with two clevis connections (one each end) and used that instead of top link. I am now able to raise mower up. I put a hardened bolt and lock washer where top link hoos on brush hog instead of a regular pin. Once I get the chain length adjusted to where it works (this is mainly on the lowest spot the brush hog will be) I won't take the chain loose from the brush hog, just take the quick connector pin loose from tractor, which is through the clevis.

So for now I am set. The ought to make it clear in brush hog instruction books that the top link isnot to be used for mowing, or at least that's the way I see it today.

Thank you, Richard Gauthier

 

[s1120]

Now let me start with the fact that I do not have a tractor with a 3ph, and that I have not used a brush hog before. But is not using a top link safe? It seems to me that under the right[wrong??] condetions it could kick up the cutter, and cause some trubble. Am I missing something?

 

[pruntyc]

When you hit something, with the Bush Hog, without a top link, you should give your address out, so we can send your wife some flowers. Because the Bush Hog will have came up and hit you in the back and probably killed you. It makes a good safety device, to stop it from coming up that way.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF LITTLE TOY TRACTOR YOU ARE USING BUT THIS CHINESE TRACTOR I BOUGHT IS BIG AND TALL ENOUGH THAT IF THAT 550 LB. HOG WERE EVER TO JUMP UP AND GET ME I WOULD HAVE TO BE CUTTING DOWN A MOUNTAIN AND THEN HIT A TWO FT STUMP.SAVE THE FLOWER MONEY AND SEND ME SOME BEER MONEY NOW.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

i am dissapointed,i didn't get the respones i was expecting from that comment.

 

[BillyP]

The chances of a cutter, without using the top link, flying up and hitting the driver is no better than towing a trailer and it doing the same.

Billy

 

[rdbrumfield]

Not exactly, I have had my cutter catch on stumps and such, it does lift the back of the mower and the top link does stop it before it kinks the drive shaft. I might add that using a chain doesn't give you that safety margin.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

<font color=blue>The chances of a cutter, without using the top link, flying up and hitting the driver is no better than towing a trailer and it doing the same. </font color=blue>

I doubt that. Unless you somehow are putting energy into that trailer like your are that rotary cutter!

Bill in Pgh, PA

 

[Anonymous Poster]

hello again, if you were doing some real brushoging[which i don't plan on doing much of]the idea i have heard and a picture i have seen on this web page,of useing the top link along with a short chain which would be your connection to the top of your cutter might be a better way to go.i might rig up somthing like that before doing much cutting this coming sping. also that way, if the tractor front end wanted to rise on ahill that may catch you or at least an older gentle man suggested it might. 99% of what i will be cutting i have previously been cutting with a riding lawn mower,but i got tired of having to basicly plan my whole summer around this due to not letting it get to tall so the mower wold cut it and dealing with the rain,etc. i got about 5 acres that i mowed with the riding mower.now i can cut it once a year if i want in the rain. i do plan on making a few new trails now but not in any really heavy brush,and i will definitely walk it and cut anything bigger then1 inch. thanks richard

 

[BillyP]

In order for my cutter to come up and hit me, the tail wheel would have to be over 8' in the air. I'm sorry but I don't think my tractor (or yours) can go fast enough and hit something with enough force to give the cutter the momentum to achieve this. One other thing is, the cutter blades are spinning in a way that it is actually pulling the cutter in a downward motion.

Billy