Transporting brush-hog

[Gale Hawkins]

Grease it and go. 12 MPH does not do the harm as when dropping it fast on hard ground. After you have seen a tractor in the ditch from bouncing off the road (it was due to a three point hitch disk on a gravel road) keeping steering control is job one. Look a wheeled bushhog and see if many are not the same soild type tire/bearings set up? I do it both ways. The MF 265 will shimmy due to light front end with the super heavy duty 7' bush hog. I just tag the rear wheel with part of the load unlike when cutting in the field.

 

[TripleR]

In my area, I have yet to see a laminated wheel on a pull type transported on the roadways, they all have aircraft type tires just like ours; rarely have I seen anything but a laminated wheel on a 3PH type.

My nephew didn't like to take the time to shorten the top link to transport, so the laminated wheels stayed on the ground on a 10' Woods and the laminated wheels wore pretty bad.

 

[Soundguy]

I am going to brush-hog a nearby property tomorrow. The place is just a few miles down the road, and I'm going to just drive the tractor over, instead of putting it on the trailer. My question is, is it okay to ride like that with the brush-hog on the 3ph? It bounces up and down a lot. At first, I figured I would just let it ride on the tail-wheel, but then I thought probably the tail-wheel's bearings and such probably aren't made for miles of road at 10-12 mph. I figure the 3ph hydraulics are probably pretty tough, but then again, the brush-hog is a lot of weight hanging pretty far back, and the kinds of bounces and jounces it goes through when riding at road speed might wear on the hydraulics. So I thought, maybe I could take a 10k ratchet strap and run it back around the tail-wheel and up across the top of the ROPS or something, just to take some of the bounciness out of the trip.

Any thoughts? Am I over-thinking this?

i'd let the tail wheel just ride.. it's made to roll! it's better than shock loading the hyds when you hit a bump and becoming a teeter totter.

 

[aczlan]

i'd let the tail wheel just ride.. it's made to roll! it's better than shock loading the hyds when you hit a bump and becoming a teeter totter.

If driving down the road or another smooth surface, I will lift it. If driving on the shoulder or some other bumpy surface, I will lower it to get some weight on the tailwheel. Do I need to? Perhaps not, but it makes me feel batter to do so.

Aaron Z

 

[Soundguy]

it kinda amazes me that people are afraid to use their equipment as designed. not running mowers at pto rpm. afraid to run tractor at pto rpm for extended times. afraid to let .. WHEELS roll.. LMAO!

why not leave the darned thing parked so it won't ever get any wear !


soundguy

 

[ramheadjim]

it kinda amazes me that people are afraid to use their equipment as designed. not running mowers at pto rpm. afraid to run tractor at pto rpm for extended times. afraid to let .. WHEELS roll.. LMAO!

why not leave the darned thing parked so it won't ever get any wear !


soundguy

Well put

 

[TripleR]

Wonder why ballast boxes don't have wheels.

Just something I saw recently.

 

[schmism]

Id greese up the tail wheel and hold the 3pt so the tail wheel took some weight but not all of it.

 

[Soundguy]

due to the way a 3pt piece of equipment ( or semi-mount for that matter ) is constructed.. the tailwhell of , say, a mower isn't takinghte entire weight.. ever.. unless it's standing on end!! there always something else supporting the hitch side.. either.. earth.. or a tractor.. so the tailwheel NEVER really sees full implement weight...

 

[schmism]

so the tailwheel NEVER really sees full implement weight...

I ment it as, not all the weight it would normally carry which would be half the weight of the deck if your 3pt link is "floating" while moveing.

I know my tail wheel is a bushing design, not a bearing and while i really dont worry about it when im brushhoging as im doing about 1.5mph .... thats a lot slower than say 5-7mph roading between jobs. so to keep some of the weight off of it to keep heat down in at the axle. (i could care less about the solid rubber tire)