Rotary Cutter I really jacked up my Bush Hog this time.

[warhammer]

I tried the huge crescent with the T post driver as a cheater bar already and beating it with a heavy hammer - its a no go.
When the blade came around and hit the bent portion it put a nice reinforcing crease about a half inch from the former lower edge.
Last thing I am going to try before getting it cut is a bottle jack to push the whole edge down. We'll see what happens.
The only good thing on this deal is I was 10 minutes away from being done with mowing the farm.....

Warhammer

Ouch - the blade caught it.

A big Crescent wrench or Vice Grip works good for bending a metal edge like that. Once it's uncurled a hammer and dolly (e.g. a sledge hammer head held against the backside while you hammer the front with a lesser hammer) can yield good results. See how much you can salvage then cut out a nice shape for the patch. Some heat might help you uncurl the worst of it.

 

[spruce Deere]

Thats a hogged up squealer! looks like cutting out the bad, replacing is the best way. A porta-power ram or a jack MIGHT.... but it will not have much strength after all that.

 

[CCWKen]

Yikes! A stump did that? Was it petrified?

 

[warhammer]

It was a tree I cut 6-8 months ago about 16-18" thick.
It caught it right on the back curve forward of the reinforcing plate.

I went down to the metal store and found a nice piece of scrap cold rolled 4"x48" that looks like it can be made to work.

Now I need to figure out how to tote the mower to my house where there is electricity and a mig welder.

Warhammer

Yikes! A stump did that? Was it petrified?

 

[dynasim]

"Its only a flesh wound".

After you fix it, you will have to let the Bush Hog have another wack at that stump's knee cap!

Seriously, I have only been successful with really big hammer on some sort of anvil, or bottle jacks. After your straighen it, the bent area will be weak. Some sort of T-shaped reinforcing would be in order.

Chris

 

[Midsouth]

All we ever did when hitting a stump and bending the side like that was heat it up and take a sledge hammer and beat it out to where the blade would not hit and go back to work.

 

[sandman2234]

My thoughts are a lot of heat over a wide area, while applying a rather large and continous amount of elbow grease via a hammer of at least several pounds in size. Having someone with a little experience (or a lot of common sense) to operate one or the other will help in expediting it. It isn't going to yield easily, but given the alternatives, I would pound out as much of the metal as possible back to it's original shape before adding the necessary metal needed to reproduce the hog's original shape. Try to retain ALL of the metal as it will give you strength and more on which to weld the added patch.
You could just take it to an "auto body shop" and they could braze in a piece of tin and then coat it with bondo before painting it to "almost match" the original colors... (NOT!!!)
David from jax

 

[two_bit_score]

Looks almost brand new except fot that hole in the side.

 

[tommu56]

I would try cutting vertical slots about 1" apart and work the small sections back in to shape. they should be easier than bending the whole thing at one time
Then fill in gaps with weld.

tom

 

[KennyV]

rosebud...
and a big hammer.