Very near miss

[boggen]

rotatory cutting. not much can be done. tend to use the FEL with bucket a couple inches off ground. to hopefully nudge something out of the way.

there was a couple threads a while back. of folks killing some folks that were laying down in brush drunk/drugged/ or what not. we all talk about regular animals. but rotatory cutting in areas were there are folks, it is still possible to take many things out

 

[BX25HD]

rotatory cutting. not much can be done. tend to use the FEL with bucket a couple inches off ground. to hopefully nudge something out of the way.

That's funny. I keep my FEL low to look for stumps that I forgot about.

 

[indianaEPH]

unfortunatly I had the experience of hitting a fawn while bush hogging. I never saw it. It was a week later that my dog found it. I feel really bad about it. the grass was very tall and I never had this happen before. im not sure how to avoid this other than a detailed search before bush hogging. Even then there is no certainty of not hitting one of these poor critters

 

[JamesHW]

Back when we were newlyweds we rented a cottage in Northern Va from an old lady and I had some caretaking duties (the rent was $300 a month) which included mowing. This was with a push mower and I repeatedly would mow over an big old box turtle back around the garden, vineyard area. Always felt bad about it and the top of his shell was pretty scarred up from years of this. After awhile I figured out where he liked to hang out and would walk that area first, find him and locate him off to the side and he would watch me mow from there.

 

[coveredbridge]

I've once ran over and cut up a Frog. Didn't see it in the tall grass until I saw it flying in pieces out the deflector of the lawn tractor.

Chad

I hit a big snapping turtle last year, and nearly got into some poults.

 

[woodlandfarms]

My wife hit baby rabbits late last week with the brush hog which is attached to the front of the tractor. Only 2 survivors and one is immediately grabbed up by the dog. If course I am in la and it is so hard to console her from a distance.

She says she will resume mowing today. I think she gets it's part of the process, and after loosing a bit of her garden to rabbits she is less upset.

 

[TripleR]

We mow very little and very carefully this time of year. I only mow grass short enough it won't hide anything. We will be going hard at it later in the summer.

 

[grnspot110]

I ran over a bed of baby rabbits with my mower once. They were hunkered down so low it didn't hurt 'em a bit, thank goodness. The next day, mama had moved 'em.

I too, ran over a rabbit nest in the middle of my front yard this Spring, not hurting them. Few weeks later, anther one about 20' from the first. Now we seem to be over-run with "garden eaters! Kicked up a fawn once while pushing an old hog fence out in the timber, left the rest of the fence until later in the season. ~~ grnspot

 

[The Haymaker]

While I have yet to run over a deer, moose, or lactating cow, am I wrong and heartless in shrugging my shoulders while saying "unfortunate losses"? I hate to kill anything, but I'm not gonna quit mowing because of it.

 

[ericher69]

While I have yet to run over a deer, moose, or lactating cow, am I wrong and heartless in shrugging my shoulders while saying "unfortunate losses"? I hate to kill anything, but I'm not gonna quit mowing because of it.

No you are not!

Law of the jungle; the strong survive.

I've seen people swerve off a road into a ditch; cause injuries and expensive vehicle damage because they did not want to hit a tree rat crossing the road