"What have I hit while bush hogging?"

[2fast2]

Re: "What have I hit while bush hogging?"

Lets see. The most "interesting" thing I hit with my MX6 was while clearing overgrown pasture after I bought my property and the horses were removed from grazing there. Got halfway done one day and when I went back at it the next day I saw a big hunk of rope, which I went to pick up only to discover it was a timber rattler which I had hit the day before. The only injury (fatal) was filleting the top half of his head clear off. He was otherwise completely intact. That was my first realization that we had rattlers. I wasn't so keen about letting my 8 year old daughter play Bambi in those fields after that!

 

[2fast2]

Re: "What have I hit while bush hogging?"

The biggest thing I hit was a dead deer. The grass was as tall as the hood of my JD 5210 so I couldn't see a thing and it sure scared the heck out of me and made the tractor jump and make bad noises. I had to pick it up with the FEL and dump it and it smelled awful.

Another time I was cutting and there was a doe and a brand new fawn who must've just been born. I scared off the mom and then flushed out the baby just before I ran it over and it ran a little ways before going back into the uncut, tall grass. So I knew I couldn't see it and risked hitting it. Meanwhile I could see the doe off in the distance and she seemed frantic. I had to quit immediately. Very stressful to think you might run over some little baby. Shoot them someday, OK, but accidentally hit one, NO WAY.

 

[TripleR]

Re: "What have I hit while bush hogging?"

A set of tri-fold ATV ramps.

A flattened metal building that had blown away, but with my hydraulic shuttle shift I was able to stop before the blades made contact.

 

[rd_macgregor]

Re: "What have I hit while bush hogging?"

When I mow pastures, the ravens, red-tailed hawks and foxes come out to follow me and pick up/off the casualties.
BOB

 

[mooseracing]

Re: "What have I hit while bush hogging?"

At home: rocks, rocks and more rocks. I seem to grow them.


When I worked at the road commission, just about every thing imaginable.

Things I remember:

At least a 5ft diam rock in a overgrown ditch, split it in half, wrapped blades around stump jumper​

various old paper delivery boxes​

garage sale, vote for me, marker flags​

tires were fun, they would shake the hole tractor and then launch them a ways​

and of course dead and live animals, it took a few minutes to clean that smell out of the cab.​

 

[ShenandoahJoe]

Re: "What have I hit while bush hogging?"

Basketball.

 

[E/S]

Re: "What have I hit while bush hogging?"

My favorite is rattle snakes.

E/S

 

[big e]

Re: "What have I hit while bush hogging?"

If you are running over wildlife you might be hogging the wrong time of year. Let the birds nest and the deer drop if you can! If you are running over feral cats, keep mowing that time of year! They are a pestalence to wildlife.

Ok, how about a box springs? Yep, some amorous previous owner had dragged the box spring of a bed down near the lake and years later all that was left were the freaking springs. After hitting them the first time, they proved surprisingly hard to find in the grass, and reappeared from time to time for years. Hope that's over.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Re: "What have I hit while bush hogging?"

A ground ground ground ground ground hog.... (I'm sure the blades hit it a few more times than that) :laughing:

 

[brin]

Re: "What have I hit while bush hogging?"

The biggest thing I hit was a dead deer. The grass was as tall as the hood of my JD 5210 so I couldn't see a thing and it sure scared the heck out of me and made the tractor jump and make bad noises. I had to pick it up with the FEL and dump it and it smelled awful.

Another time I was cutting and there was a doe and a brand new fawn who must've just been born. I scared off the mom and then flushed out the baby just before I ran it over and it ran a little ways before going back into the uncut, tall grass. So I knew I couldn't see it and risked hitting it. Meanwhile I could see the doe off in the distance and she seemed frantic. I had to quit immediately. Very stressful to think you might run over some little baby. Shoot them someday, OK, but accidentally hit one, NO WAY.

I did run over a brand new fawn last year...I was bush hogging 4 ft. high and thick grass in the pasture and I saw a Doe get up well in front of me about 100 yards in front of me and run off...I thought the tractor had just spooked here...nothing else and continued on mowing...on the next pass about 5 min. later the doe was once again standing in front of me and ran away but stopped short about 50 feet to the side and as I drove by for the nest pass next to what I had cut previously I saw the various body parts of a newly born fawn....Just made me sick ! I am not over even now..I have to blame the Doe for running off as quickly as she did...I sure wish she would have just hesitated a little bit and I would have known but she just scampered off into the woods..so I thought I had just scared her and had no idea the fawn was there...It happens.