malk315
Silver Member
Hey Guys-
Hooked up a Bush hog brand cutter to the CK-20 today to mow down the weeds at a sugar maple tree site we created for a Cubscout project with a grant we actually were able to get from state of Massachusetts. Being the scout pack needs to maintain the land we need to brush hog it every so often as you can see in the videos. You can see the nice maple trees (one dead one -- we lost only a couple) I think it's got about 65 trees or something.
I was surprised it did as well as it did (the guy in the video is a buddy of mine and his friend let us use the hog). We could go pretty quick through the lower areas and the super thick clover was the only areas we had to go nice and slow or the RPMs would drop. Other than that it was very hot today so we had to watch the temp -- had to let her cool off a couple times -- even running my 60" mid mount on days like today can push the gauge up there. I guess this a 6' hog which I've read here is really too big, but I think we did ok. We never overheated.
The only real issue was getting the bottom arms on the 3 point to spread when attaching / detaching -- it was a bear. I have a rotary spreader and a trailer hitch adapter that go on easier but no other attachments to compare to. Any tips you guys have? You can see in the videos the drive shaft is fairly level and it's on the arms all fine -- I'm also not sure of the top link adjustment. Any tips there would be appreciated. It's probably a bit too heavy also as I couldn't pick it up much past 8 on the lift lever w/o it feeling like a pressure relief or something was kicking in. I can see there's a set of holes to lower the bottom studs -- maybe that would have made it better.
I had one brain lapse where I let off the clutch w/o realizing PTO was still engaged. I've done that same brain lapse once in the past w/ my own mid-mount deck too (I'm sure some of you may have done this too...). Machine is 6 years old about 350 hours and is HST so clutch only used to start PTO -- hope I didn't do damage there... I'm still mad at myself on that one. Don't ya hate when you do that? I figure if down the line it needs work (clutch or whatever) I'll do whatever it takes -- the machine is worth it. Everything seems fine -- no problems engaging and disengaging.
Anyway -- On to the videos -- first one has youtube's shaky video correction so the motion looks a little funny:
Brush hogging Pack 9 Sugarbush - YouTube
2012 06 23 15 21 09 46 - YouTube
2012 06 23 15 19 21 525 - YouTube
The seat time was very therapeutic today -- I'm a desk jockey and can only play on the weekends.
Hooked up a Bush hog brand cutter to the CK-20 today to mow down the weeds at a sugar maple tree site we created for a Cubscout project with a grant we actually were able to get from state of Massachusetts. Being the scout pack needs to maintain the land we need to brush hog it every so often as you can see in the videos. You can see the nice maple trees (one dead one -- we lost only a couple) I think it's got about 65 trees or something.
I was surprised it did as well as it did (the guy in the video is a buddy of mine and his friend let us use the hog). We could go pretty quick through the lower areas and the super thick clover was the only areas we had to go nice and slow or the RPMs would drop. Other than that it was very hot today so we had to watch the temp -- had to let her cool off a couple times -- even running my 60" mid mount on days like today can push the gauge up there. I guess this a 6' hog which I've read here is really too big, but I think we did ok. We never overheated.
The only real issue was getting the bottom arms on the 3 point to spread when attaching / detaching -- it was a bear. I have a rotary spreader and a trailer hitch adapter that go on easier but no other attachments to compare to. Any tips you guys have? You can see in the videos the drive shaft is fairly level and it's on the arms all fine -- I'm also not sure of the top link adjustment. Any tips there would be appreciated. It's probably a bit too heavy also as I couldn't pick it up much past 8 on the lift lever w/o it feeling like a pressure relief or something was kicking in. I can see there's a set of holes to lower the bottom studs -- maybe that would have made it better.
I had one brain lapse where I let off the clutch w/o realizing PTO was still engaged. I've done that same brain lapse once in the past w/ my own mid-mount deck too (I'm sure some of you may have done this too...). Machine is 6 years old about 350 hours and is HST so clutch only used to start PTO -- hope I didn't do damage there... I'm still mad at myself on that one. Don't ya hate when you do that? I figure if down the line it needs work (clutch or whatever) I'll do whatever it takes -- the machine is worth it. Everything seems fine -- no problems engaging and disengaging.
Anyway -- On to the videos -- first one has youtube's shaky video correction so the motion looks a little funny:
Brush hogging Pack 9 Sugarbush - YouTube
2012 06 23 15 21 09 46 - YouTube
2012 06 23 15 19 21 525 - YouTube
The seat time was very therapeutic today -- I'm a desk jockey and can only play on the weekends.
