Our own Farmer Dave was dang nearly killed when he helped out a neighbor by mowing their place several years ago. He was mowing high in super tall and very matted plant growth, but the mower managed to find a 35 pound/5 gallon propane tank for a bar-b-que. The thing exploded, instantly destroying the 5 foot mower and tearing up the tractor and giving Dave some slight injuries. We now have a new LS tractor and another 5-foot mower.
Hello Hank, been there myself, Its the reason i bought the CID Extreme for our bobcat T650. Messed up the hydraulics under our kubota running over things, Take Care🪵👍🏼🇺🇸
Man, that could have been bad hitting that metal thing. Good to know that there were no people around when you hit it. Thumbs up 😎👍 for the nice 🤠. Does Willy get one too? Great job with the mower.
ID SUggest that you lengthen your upper lift arm until the rear wheel supports the load of the whole cutter such that the bottom of it is level with the ground,,,,and adjust it all so that the blades are 3" high,,,,,my dealer tells me that if you let your loader waaay low such that if you find surprises, rock, stumps, logs, iron, sheet metal,,,,that the loader forks will tell you first,,,also, was told that my cutter would cut anything that my loader could push over and bend low to the ground. If you do get into anything big diameter, push it really low,,,,go slow with high speed on your cutter such that when it cuts, only a short bit, not the whole daimeter of the tree but maybe 2" only of the approaching blade cuts at each rotation, blade will fold back without putting shock onto your cutter gearbox to damage it.,,,,,looks like a good rig you have there,,,thanks
Can’t you go out and use your forestry mulcher and grind those stumps down ? Also that’s pretty light forest, couldn’t you raise those branches up to be able to drive under it.
Looks like a walk behind Gravely might've been a better choice for those tight areas. I'm still finding steel objects making there way to the surface. And that's in a disked field 30 years later. Always keep an eye out for spectators, someone getting hit by a flying object, that's a real disaster. Good luck and be careful 👍
I've had a couple of "mishaps" while bush hogging my woods. In the first case, the shear bolt on my PTO shaft failed to shear and it tore up the gearbox on my 6ft bush hog. That was a $300 mistake. In the second case I found a 1" cable buried in the dirt. I had to cut it out and remove the blade pan in order to get the mess untangled. As far as gopher turtles, we have at least 4 holes that I am aware of. We even had a small one wander up to our back yard a few months ago. My dog scared it off and it went back into the woods. It's amazing how fast those things can move! I hope that you and your family fared well through this hurricane. Here in north/central Florida we just got a lot of rain and some wind.
Wow! That had to be scary. I love to bush hog but it is always difficult to know what the bush hog is running over especially when I am on the property I have never been on. Great video and a good lesson, Hank!
I've bumped both mirrors on my Tym T454 effectively locking me in the cab! Found out real quick that the overhead hatch also functions as an escape hatch! 🤣
that machine is easy to fabricate a skid plate. nice clean frame to bolt it to. thats my first winter project on t494, nice quiet kukje mech. fuel inj. on that machine.
Hank Whan I was around 14 I was bushogging the farm around the creek bottom and there was a area where it was full of wild rose bushes and they were huge and I would raise the lift all the way up and back over into them and lower the lift and come out and cut them, I was using a 8N Ford tractor and a 6 foot bushog, and if you know the PTO on those tractors would not stop until everything stopped, including the tractor and bushog and they had no overrun or slip clutch and I backed up into a huge rose bush with the PTO engaged and there was a old wet weather stream under all that about 3 feet deep and I could not stop and the back of the tractor dropped in it and the front wheels quickly turned all the way to one side and it stopped so quick it broke one of the steering arms in half and we had to get a neighbor with a big tractor and pull it out and back to the house to take it apart and get it welded back together, that was not a good experience
Rattle snakes lives in the gopher holes with them also sometimes... So be careful and watch where your stepping when walking out in those thick grown areas..
do you realise by mowing that area like that you are DISCURRAGEING deer from coming there right ? sure it looks nice but your destroying the deers habitat and squirrels and rabbits and birds.... a mowed field is a desart for critters ! what you should do now is brod cast seed the entire area with a habitat seed for all the critters !
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I have 10 hours on my TYM 574 with the T57 Loader now and Love it so far!
Thank the Lord your machine wasn't damaged!
For sure!
The before and after shots were money. Good work Mr Hank!
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You did a great job.
Sorry about the damage!
Looks great Hank! Nice job! I brushed hogged at my farm today, I love it! I bought a cab tractor last spring, should have bought one long ago!
Game changer for sure
Makes me want to hook up my brush hog and go to work.
Our own Farmer Dave was dang nearly killed when he helped out a neighbor by mowing their place several years ago. He was mowing high in super tall and very matted plant growth, but the mower managed to find a 35 pound/5 gallon propane tank for a bar-b-que. The thing exploded, instantly destroying the 5 foot mower and tearing up the tractor and giving Dave some slight injuries. We now have a new LS tractor and another 5-foot mower.
My goodness!
Hello Hank, been there myself, Its the reason i bought the CID Extreme for our bobcat T650. Messed up the hydraulics under our kubota running over things, Take Care🪵👍🏼🇺🇸
Now I know that there is someone who is as hard on a Bushhog as I am😊
Looks like we need to turn out some goats on that field!
Fo sho
12:02 Ninety-nine degrees? Y'all need to send that cold front over here to Texas!
Lol. This was filmed before it got hot!!!
Man, that could have been bad hitting that metal thing. Good to know that there were no people around when you hit it. Thumbs up 😎👍 for the nice 🤠. Does Willy get one too? Great job with the mower.
Buy a stump bucket and remove the stumps
Great video. Always satisfying seeing the grass cut down.
It sure is :)
You should have checked the blades and stump jumper to see if anything was bent or damaged. It might have put everything out of balance.😊
Yeah good call. I thought about it after the fact.
ID SUggest that you lengthen your upper lift arm until the rear wheel supports the load of the whole cutter such that the bottom of it is level with the ground,,,,and adjust it all so that the blades are 3" high,,,,,my dealer tells me that if you let your loader waaay low such that if you find surprises, rock, stumps, logs, iron, sheet metal,,,,that the loader forks will tell you first,,,also, was told that my cutter would cut anything that my loader could push over and bend low to the ground. If you do get into anything big diameter, push it really low,,,,go slow with high speed on your cutter such that when it cuts, only a short bit, not the whole daimeter of the tree but maybe 2" only of the approaching blade cuts at each rotation, blade will fold back without putting shock onto your cutter gearbox to damage it.,,,,,looks like a good rig you have there,,,thanks
have you still got the mulcher on the skid steer might be good taking out stumps with ?
I appreciate watching you use the rotary cutter as a light weight mulcher 😊. I do the same thing.
Right on👍
Can’t you go out and use your forestry mulcher and grind those stumps down ? Also that’s pretty light forest, couldn’t you raise those branches up to be able to drive under it.
Looks like a walk behind Gravely might've been a better choice for those tight areas. I'm still finding steel objects making there way to the surface. And that's in a disked field 30 years later. Always keep an eye out for spectators, someone getting hit by a flying object, that's a real disaster. Good luck and be careful 👍
I've had a couple of "mishaps" while bush hogging my woods. In the first case, the shear bolt on my PTO shaft failed to shear and it tore up the gearbox on my 6ft bush hog. That was a $300 mistake.
In the second case I found a 1" cable buried in the dirt. I had to cut it out and remove the blade pan in order to get the mess untangled.
As far as gopher turtles, we have at least 4 holes that I am aware of. We even had a small one wander up to our back yard a few months ago. My dog scared it off and it went back into the woods. It's amazing how fast those things can move!
I hope that you and your family fared well through this hurricane. Here in north/central Florida we just got a lot of rain and some wind.
Prayers for you guys over that way!
Wow! That had to be scary. I love to bush hog but it is always difficult to know what the bush hog is running over especially when I am on the property I have never been on. Great video and a good lesson, Hank!
Thank you for watching!
Metal detector on the machine?
is a goffer the florida version of a new york woodchuck?
No, It’s a dry land turtle! Big fine’s just for messing with one!
Indeed
I hit a mattress bed spring with a batwing mower once. Killed the 65hp tractor engine instantly. We had to cut it off the spindle with a torch.
Wow!!!
I've bumped both mirrors on my Tym T454 effectively locking me in the cab! Found out real quick that the overhead hatch also functions as an escape hatch! 🤣
Lol
I was doing the same thing today. Wearing a similar hat. You have made me paranoid of my yard.
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that machine is easy to fabricate a skid plate. nice clean frame to bolt it to. thats my first winter project on t494, nice quiet kukje mech. fuel inj. on that machine.
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wonder around with a paint spray can and make the hidden stumps. to make them more visable.
I've used stakes in another field.
Rent a stump grinder.
id say you hit one of them there KU-BOATERS or DEEREs but you would see pieces of $100 bills if that was the case
Lol
Never know what u will find brush hogging all most could use a nice heavy-duty flai mower that would eat all u could put in it and more lol 😃
Yeah it would be nice to have one for sure
Hank Whan I was around 14 I was bushogging the farm around the creek bottom and there was a area where it was full of wild rose bushes and they were huge and I would raise the lift all the way up and back over into them and lower the lift and come out and cut them, I was using a 8N Ford tractor and a 6 foot bushog, and if you know the PTO on those tractors would not stop until everything stopped, including the tractor and bushog and they had no overrun or slip clutch and I backed up into a huge rose bush with the PTO engaged and there was a old wet weather stream under all that about 3 feet deep and I could not stop and the back of the tractor dropped in it and the front wheels quickly turned all the way to one side and it stopped so quick it broke one of the steering arms in half and we had to get a neighbor with a big tractor and pull it out and back to the house to take it apart and get it welded back
together, that was not a good experience
Wow! That's crazy
Put rock or ice cream salt on those stumps and it will make them rot faster
Definitely could have been worse. I hit and old T post with mine one time. Glad the cutter hit it and not my tire.
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Rattle snakes lives in the gopher holes with them also sometimes...
So be careful and watch where your stepping when walking out in those thick grown areas..
👍👍
do you realise by mowing that area like that you are DISCURRAGEING deer from coming there right ? sure it looks nice but your destroying the deers habitat and squirrels and rabbits and birds.... a mowed field is a desart for critters ! what you should do now is brod cast seed the entire area with a habitat seed for all the critters !