Worst Bushhog job ever

[LD1]

Well, at least it will pay well. But I think I experienced my worst job yet. A freakin limestone quarry:laughing:

With them being in the business of selling rocks, you'd think they would just leave them laying everywhere that needs mowed:mur:

Bout 18-19 acres in total. Hard to measure with any accuracy, cause it was ~1.25 miles long and mostly about 30-50' wide, with one end opening up to about 500' wide.

Not just the rocks, but rougher than all get out. Some of them big trucks leave some ruts that will swallow my little kubota.

Here is what my blades look like now after just sharpening. (they look alot worse in person than the pic shows)


And I picked up 90% of the rocks I did hit (so it wont happen next time). Here is them. I didnt hit the big black one in the middle, but it looked cool so I grabbed it. All the rest were hit

 

[radioman]

Maybe you should be pricing the job based on cost of blade. and save old one just for quarry job again.

 

[clemsonfor]

Think its just the rocks falling out of the rock trucks while they run the road?

 

[LD1]

Think its just the rocks falling out of the rock trucks while they run the road?

Some of the rocks were pretty far away from the "truck" road. So I dont know. Alot of the area I mowed was under construction over the last few years building a new "truck" road. It appears they just did a crappy job finishing it, and then it grew up with weeds/grass, and thats what we have now.

 

[nybirdman]

Gee..I pick more than that out of my garden every year!

 

[dave1949]

This is why I use my FEL bucket as a rock detector. Just let the heel of the bucket skim above the ground slightly lower than you're cutting. You will feel/hear it bump rocks in time to stop.

Even so, my blades look about like yours. :laughing:

Free rocks! Oh boy!

 

[oldnslo]

Gee..I pick more than that out of my garden every year!

What do you have A Rock garden...

 

[LD1]

This is why I use my FEL bucket as a rock detector. Just let the heel of the bucket skim above the ground slightly lower than you're cutting. You will feel/hear it bump rocks in time to stop.

Even so, my blades look about like yours. :laughing:

Free rocks! Oh boy!

Sometimes I do that if I am in a really bad area. But the cut quality suffers big time when the FEL mashes all the stuff down that needs to be cut.

Blades arent overly expensive anyway. Just part of doing business I guess. And thats why I run such a heavy cutter too. A few rocks are only going to dull the blades, but not rip the hog apart like a light duty TSC cutter.

 

[dave1949]

Sometimes I do that if I am in a really bad area. But the cut quality suffers big time when the FEL mashes all the stuff down that needs to be cut.

Blades arent overly expensive anyway. Just part of doing business I guess. And thats why I run such a heavy cutter too. A few rocks are only going to dull the blades, but not rip the hog apart like a light duty TSC cutter.

I have a Woods 72" Brush Bull, the medium duty model. It's 10 years old and I am amazed at the punishment it has taken, not proud mind you, but amazed. :laughing: I take it on trails that aren't really suitable for hogging due to rocks, tight squeezes and general roughness.

The skirt around the back is getting pretty beat up, and the tail wheel assembly has a bend in it, I think I did that hooking a tree a couple years back. Tried to straighten it while heating with the torch but I couldn't get enough force on it. Bent tail wheels tend to plow a bit when reversing direction because swiveling requires lifting the weight of the cutter.

For me, it's the price of keeping the wife happy that she has walking trails.

 

[aginn]

I've got a 1970's brush hog and I am amazed at the abuse it will take. If they weren't as tuff as they are I would surely destroy one a year just on the stuff that is overlooked. The worst thing I have ever hit was an old axle that was sticking out of the ground. Too high to miss and too low to see. It got sucked out of the ground and stuffed mostly above the blade binding it in there to where the entire blade assembly had to be removed to get it out. It felt similar to what I imagine a train wreck would. That day I invented several new words that were directed at people who throw stuff like that out and just walk away.
Glad that it didn't break your gearbox.