Neighbor's Cat heavy duty bush hog

[RalphVa]

Anyone seen one of these heavy duty bush hogs? Cat(R) Industrial Brushcutter Operating Tips - YouTube

The neighbor is clearing vines and stuff between trees going behind his back lawn down to the little stream that goes along his and our properties. He hired a contractor who came in with this Cat rig.

On the video, it clearly says not to use it within 300' of property lines. We've pieces thrown over here from it. I let him know that he should tell them people about this and told him the story about our driver's side door getting a 45 caliber hole punched in it once from bush hogs being using incorrectly.

He claims what they're using is a different machine. I didn't see it when they had the hog on the front. Say it later with an FEL and grapple. Clearly a tracked Cat exactly looks like the one in the video.

Ralph

 

[hddnis]

Where did it say not to use within 300' of property lines?

 

[4570Man]

That’s obviously a frivolous liability claim. Who’s going to leave minimum 8 acres uncut to achieve that boundary.

 

[mrmikey]

The 300 feet is an actual warning, they'll throw stuff like you wouldn't believe. We have to be careful when clearing roadside vegetation I bought one for work awhile back and it'a a beast, rated 4" diameter I thin it was and it'll do all of that....Mike

 

[oosik]

That's a nice piece of equipment. I'm wondering also - what will a person do about the 300 foot uncut strip around his property.

 

[Ken45101]

I have a BrushMonster, a similar unit. I never run mine at full rpm and it doesn't throw things that violently. But it still does an excellent job. Probably cutting back the rpm's will reduce the distant threat.

 

[hddnis]

I watched the video and didn't see or hear anything about staying 300' from property lines.

It did say to keep back 300' feet, but that has nothing to do with property lines.

I run the Diamond Mowers rotary head on one of my ASV's and they can throw things for sure. We've had one damage claim from a small rock breaking a window. Homeowner traded an extra hour of work on the machine to take care of some landscaping instead of money for the window. He was happy and so was I.

 

[yellowdogsvc]

Our mulchers have warnings to stay back 200ft but say nothing about property lines. Open-faced mowers should not be use near ANYONE or ANYTHING that you don't want something throw at. I don't care how good you think you are, I've been mulching for nearly 20 years and have seen it all as far as stuff being thrown from mowers, mulchers, yes even chippers, and hydro axe mowers. Open faced mowers have very little control of where the debris is thrown. Our Davco was a good mower but it through debris hundreds of feet.

 

[bdog]

I was using an open face mower on 5 acres I bought last week. It hadn't been mowed in about 20 years. I hit a tire and it tore it to shreds and threw big pieces probably 150' clear across a paved county road.

 

[RalphVa]

Turned out they were using a flail on the front. Not as bad as a bush hog.

Ralph