Old baling twine

[oosik]

My garden site originally had a lot of old baling wire and barbed wire. I'm here to say that my Troy Bilt rototiller found every inch of the stuff and you don't torch that stuff off. I'm fairly certain that I spent more time unwinding wire wrapped around the tiller than actually tilling. In hindsight, I should have gone over the ground with my tractor and my three point ripper. But that was 32 years ago and it doesn't seem so really bad now.

 

[SGBotsford]

Yeah this post is ancient. Maybe this will help the next guy.

Caught a huge wad of bailer twine on my grasshopper.

Box knife wasn't enough. Raised the deck and took off the blade. Still not enough. Ran it for a minute and the spindle got hot.

So:

1. Opened the top plate on the deck.
2. removed belt.
3. Removed nut hollding that pulley.
4. Used a puller and removed the drive pulley.
5. Single tap on the spindle dropped the spindle through the deck.
6. Removed thick crust of melted plastic from the bottom of the spindle.
7. Reversed the above steps, but while I had the deck open, pumped grease into all 3 bearings.