Hooking up my least favorite implement

shooterdon · Aug 14, 2021

And I thought hooking up the snow blower was a PITA!!

ljjhouser · Aug 16, 2021

I'm guessing getting the hydraulics installed on the tractor for the cutter is like a wiring schematic. Thanks for all the pictures. Very interesting. How many times a year do you it, in the fall and spring or more?

ROUSTABOUT · Aug 16, 2021

Yeah I worked at a dealer. We had to put them on the tractors for the county. Take them off to work on the tractor, put them back on when finished with the tractor... About the worstwe have at the farm is a back hoe attachment. That thing causes some heart ache and misery from time to time. One tractor has quick release arms. I guess dad didnt have one latched good. Has rigid top link. Arm moved and top link snapped out of tractor rear end. After welding it three times it finally stayed. It broke out three times. It was either weld or change out the rear end of tractor. It was a pain removing it the first time it broke. Never put the back hoe on a quick attach arm tractor after that. It may have just came in latched. Broke a chunk out of that rear end.

ljjhouser · Aug 16, 2021

ROUSTABOUT said:
Yeah I worked at a dealer. We had to put them on the tractors for the county. Take them off to work on the tractor, put them back on when finished with the tractor... About the worstwe have at the farm is a back hoe attachment. That thing causes some heart ache and misery from time to time. One tractor has quick release arms. I guess dad didnt have one latched good. Has rigid top link. Arm moved and top link snapped out of tractor rear end. After welding it three times it finally stayed. It broke out three times. It was either weld or change out the rear end of tractor. It was a pain removing it the first time it broke. Never put the back hoe on a quick attach arm tractor after that. It may have just came in latched. Broke a chunk out of that rear end.

Most farmers I have been around have had to spend a lot of time welding. Replacing many parts was not a very good option because of cost and down time.

JWR · Aug 16, 2021

LouNY said:
My manual has it listed as .64 ton;
this is an English unit so if they are using a long ton of 2240 pounds,
it would be 1433 pounds,
using our standard ton it would be 1280 pounds.
Then I'm not sure if that includes the 35 gallons of hydraulic oil in the reservoir.
I'm guessing it's pretty close to 1500 pounds, my tractor with the loader and weights
is over 10,000 pounds and it will move around quite a bit if I'm not smooth on the controls.

I have an Italian-made ORSI arm mower but it has a 4ft bush hog on the business end. It weighs around 2700lbs and is a serious load on a 9000lb tractor. Mine reaches 17ft. I see you do NOT have stabilizer rods on yours. ?? Mine would wobble all over the place relative to the tractor without 2 heavy stabilizer rods. BY THE WAY, is you top link attach point ion the tractor stout enough to hold that thing stationary? My top link and stabilizer rods all hooked to the top link attach point on the tractor. When the hyd pressure bled off the thing wa heavy enough to bend a good sized hunk of 1/2" thick steel plate on my tractor and I had to go repair that !!!
Lesson learned: Have to put a support structure under the ORSI that rests on the drawbar , etc. or else do damage to the tractor. The dealer failed to tell me that... a few pictures follow.
Trouble with picture insertion. Coming soon...

workinonit · Aug 16, 2021

I can't imagine 2700 lbs on my tractor. I have a 2100 lb flail mower on it now that is a decent load. Those boom mowers will get you in trouble really fast. I've had a Hardee behind my tractor. At least it had electro-mechanical controls.

JWR · Aug 16, 2021

Following up on post # 15: About the ORSI...

Note that the support structure goes UNDER the lift arms so that the load rests on the drawbar and related steel, not really on the 3pt hitch. With the stabilizer rods installed the 3pt hitch is never under prseesure and is just stationary.

JWR · Aug 16, 2021

Because the ORSI is hard on an old man to hook up and remove, takes me at least 2hrs, I got a Lane Shark which will do enough of my overhanging limb trimming and ditches and cutting over sink holes so I will not be using the ORSI that much from now on. I can fully understand the OP's title of "Least favorite implement" and maybe he could use a Lane Shark too ? It will never have the reach of the ORSI nor cover as much territory nor cut as heavy a material,,, but it goes on and off easily in a short time and an old guy can do it...