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Pappy:
Nice John, wondered what you had been up to. Keep us updated on you projects, always enjoy seeing them. :)
Pappy
Parnell:
Looks like Neapolitan Ice Cream!
iowabow:
I have a “bushhog” which is rotary brush cutter attachment for the tractor. The yoke that holds the wheel broke in to two pieces. I wielded them back together but the sides were no longer in the same plane. So I built a make shift forge and was able to easily bend it back after heating it up. Now back to the chores of keeping the brush cut back.
Pappy:
Yep that will do the trick, always something when bush hogging, my old uncle use to tell me any day bush hogging with out a flat or something breaking was a very good day, ;) I will have to agree. :) :)
Pappy
Eric Krewson:
BUSH HOGGING! I kept up 340 acres with a 4' bush hog for 12 years, you can imagine what all went wrong. The most challenging was when the pin on one of the lift arms got jerked out by the thick brush and came disconnected, I was going downhill in rutted out ground. One side of the bush hog was down on the ground and one side was on the lift arm, 450# of dead weight to lift a foot or, center the bush hog hook connection shaft with hole in the lift arm to hook back up and I was alone. Seems like I ended up piling up dead logs to make a ramp and dragging the bush hog up the ramp to raise the side that came lose.
I bought a set of Pat's lift arm quick clips after that, easy off and on.
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