Help with top link adjustment for rotary cutter.

[Highbeam]

All you need to completely float a deck is three points of ground contact. Heck, you could drag it from the hitch if you had front gauge wheels. What you will have is a rough cut finish mower.

I think part of the character of a brush hog cut field is the slight variations. Digging in to the dirt should really be avoided though.

 

[Highbeam]

All you need to completely float a deck is three points of ground contact. Heck, you could drag it from the hitch if you had front gauge wheels. What you will have is a rough cut finish mower.

I think part of the character of a brush hog cut field is the slight variations. Digging in to the dirt should really be avoided though.

 

[daTeacha]

My situation is the opposite of Beenthere's pic. I have a ditch bank I'd like to keep free of multiflora, but the ditch is alongside a 60 mph road and near a blind corner. If I can figure out a way to lower the mower from the top so it will cut at about a 45 degree down angle from a level tractor, I'd be sitting pretty. I may need to get a new PTO shaft, but do you guys have any ideas about how to rig things to allow the mower to hang down over an edge for mowing yet still be able to pick it up to at least level to move over 4 feet and do it again? No, I don't have T n T, but I do have a set of rear remotes.

 

[daTeacha]

My situation is the opposite of Beenthere's pic. I have a ditch bank I'd like to keep free of multiflora, but the ditch is alongside a 60 mph road and near a blind corner. If I can figure out a way to lower the mower from the top so it will cut at about a 45 degree down angle from a level tractor, I'd be sitting pretty. I may need to get a new PTO shaft, but do you guys have any ideas about how to rig things to allow the mower to hang down over an edge for mowing yet still be able to pick it up to at least level to move over 4 feet and do it again? No, I don't have T n T, but I do have a set of rear remotes.

 

[KiotiJohn]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I may need to get a new PTO shaft, but do you guys have any ideas about how to rig things to allow the mower to hang down over an edge for mowing yet still be able to pick it up to at least level to move over 4 feet and do it again? )</font>
I've have set mine, at times, to allow the rear to hang way down by lengthening the top link to the extreme. I was still able to pick it up enough, with the tailwheel still touching, to move over and back into the material. I nearly never have had to pick it up all the way, just enough to let it move.

I back into my ditches with the mower up some, and as it goes in, I start lowering it to cut. Works great for me.

John

 

[KiotiJohn]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I may need to get a new PTO shaft, but do you guys have any ideas about how to rig things to allow the mower to hang down over an edge for mowing yet still be able to pick it up to at least level to move over 4 feet and do it again? )</font>
I've have set mine, at times, to allow the rear to hang way down by lengthening the top link to the extreme. I was still able to pick it up enough, with the tailwheel still touching, to move over and back into the material. I nearly never have had to pick it up all the way, just enough to let it move.

I back into my ditches with the mower up some, and as it goes in, I start lowering it to cut. Works great for me.

John

 

[GaryE]

<font color="blue"> You've got a crazy twist on your belt. </font>

Highbeam,

That is common for that era Woods RFM. I have a RM59. It is a tank, but what really gets twisted is your brain as you try to put that belt on! /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Gary

 

[GaryE]

<font color="blue"> You've got a crazy twist on your belt. </font>

Highbeam,

That is common for that era Woods RFM. I have a RM59. It is a tank, but what really gets twisted is your brain as you try to put that belt on! /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Gary

 

[beenthere]

djradz
In your pic posted, its a good one of the check chains for height, but I don't see any allowance or room for the rear of the deck to raise without bending something with that top link being so long.
A good place for a chain instead of the toplink. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[beenthere]

djradz
In your pic posted, its a good one of the check chains for height, but I don't see any allowance or room for the rear of the deck to raise without bending something with that top link being so long.
A good place for a chain instead of the toplink. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif