I hate hooking up my bushhog!

[mikim]

my answer to that problem was "overrun clutch" ....it turns with 2 fingers so aligning the splines is EASY.

 

[ammodram]

Got a great idea from a similar thread here a couple years ago. Park your shredder with the stump jumper resting on an old tire. That gives it some "gee and haw" to get it hooked up.

I picked up the old tire trick from reading posts on TBN, and for a newbie, found it really easy to muscle around my brush hog this way, both for connecting and disconnecting. I have the front of the skids sitting on two old pickup truck tires, and the back resting on the tail wheel.

The hog is a King Kutter, with a twist collar on the PTO. While it took me a few tries to get the hang of it, I can now do it easily in a few seconds. The twist design doesn't involve pulling and pushing at the same time, which is nice. I did have to bend the metal PTO shield somewhat at the top to allow more room for my hand when twisting the collar.

On my old Kubota, with an independent PTO, I found it helps to back up to the cutter, shut the tractor down, THEN put the PTO in gear (with the tractor OFF, of course). This keeps the output shaft on the tractor from freespinning in two directions. I find it easier to get the cutter PTO shaft onto the splines when the output shaft only turns one way, rather than spinning all over the place when you try to push the shaft on. When you get it hooked up, go back and disengage the PTO on the tractor. Obviously, the critical part here is to go back and disengage the PTO BEFORE restarting the tractor. (And you can't afford to walk away and forget that the PTO is engaged).

-Matt

 

[cityfarma]

This sounds like a real good idea. Do you have any photos you could post?
Thanks,
Barney

I will not be going to my block for another couple of weeks so I will try to paint a word picture.

For my slasher, I have a square of 2 1/2" angle iron approx 1m each side. This has a heavy duty castor on each corner. As the slasher is wider than this, I have welded outriggers with a length of 2 1/2" angle to the sides. This is used to stop the slasher from moving off the side of the trolley. I found that it made itr a lot easier to attach if the slasher was put on the trolley at the angle that it is when raised at the height of the trolley. To do this I simply put a block of wood across the back of the trolley so the back was supported at the correct angle.

For the spring tyne harrow I just made a smaller trolley and put a board on it. I also found that it needed the back higher so again it has a block on the rear edge.

Note: These are for my ease of movement and may not be totally stable. Keep clear when moving them. Most importantly do not sit on them or let kids near them.

Cityfarma

 

[Barneyhunts]

I will not be going to my block for another couple of weeks so I will try to paint a word picture.

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Note: These are for my ease of movement and may not be totally stable. Keep clear when moving them. Most importantly do not sit on them or let kids near them.

Cityfarma

Thanks, I'm trying to picture them. The idea sounds really good. Thanks again,
Barney

 

[dbdartman]

Barney, you know what a "moving dolley" is? A simple square/rectangle made of 4 pieces of wood with casters under it? Implement dolleys are the same, only larger, heavier, stronger, & usually with larger wheels.

I keep my stuff on 4X4's. Not as easy to move around as a dolley would be, but still easier to move than if they were just sitting on the concrete floor.

 

[Barneyhunts]

Barney, you know what a "moving dolley" is? A simple square/rectangle made of 4 pieces of wood with casters under it? Implement dolleys are the same, only larger, heavier, stronger, & usually with larger wheels.

I keep my stuff on 4X4's. Not as easy to move around as a dolley would be, but still easier to move than if they were just sitting on the concrete floor.

Thanks db! I keep my brush hog on 4x4s and on concrete and you're right they help. I'm thinking of building a storage building with concrete floors for all my stuff (currently on pallets under a fabric building.) and the casters sound like a good idea.

 

[cityfarma]

My son has gone down to the block and I have asked him to take some pictures. I will post them if they show clearly what I did.

Cityfarma

 

[cityfarma]

I have attached a couple of pictures of my trolleys. Note the pieces of wood used to raise the back of the implement to the correct angle to allow connection without having to adjust the top link.

Cityfarma

 

[Tigers1981]

Have you tried the delta hook. My friend has one and apparently it makes hooking up implements much easier. They are a little pricy though.

 

[daBear]

Aren't there two issues here that have gotten run together? One is lining up the splines on the output shaft and the PTO shaft. The other is hooking up the 3 point. I have no problem with my 3 point, even took the ez hooks off and don't use them anymore. However, getting the PTO shaft to slide onto the output shaft is a color of a different horse for me.