Mower stopped cutting

37chief · Jan 19, 2013

Every thing was going fine until I ran over a bed spring. That sent me to the shop in a hurry. It took a while with my cutting torch to get this out.This is my flail mower I pull with my JD 401 Industrial. Excellent tractor for my mower. That happed a couple years ago. Now since I almost figured out posting pictures, I have a lot of catch up to do. Stan

Greg K · Jan 19, 2013

I found one of those wrapped around the drive shaft of my 79 Dodge one day. That will bring a Big block to it's knees. Took 1 1/2 hours with a visegrips and a side cutter to cut it all loose laying in the mud in the middle of nowhere.

RayP(MI) · Jan 19, 2013

I got a bundle of woven wire fence in my generic brush hog. Spent a bunch of time on my back with a set of fencing pliers and vice grips. Another time I got a bunch of fencing wrapped around driveshafts on a pay-loader. Again, a lot of time cutting with pliers and hacksaw. No easy way to clear such stuff out of moving parts.

Ronald Anthony Anderson · Jan 19, 2013

Got to close to a fence line with a cornstalk chopper once. brought it home and flipped it upside down then got after it with a cutting torch. I would have hated to try cutting it all out with a plier.

Eldon (WA) · Jan 19, 2013

(quoted from post at 15:00:57 01/19/13) Every thing was going fine until I ran over a bed spring. That sent me to the shop in a hurry. It took a while with my cutting torch to get this out.This is my flail mower I pull with my JD 401 Industrial. Excellent tractor for my mower. That happed a couple years ago. Now since I almost figured out posting pictures, I have a lot of catch up to do. Stan

That's why I use a twin spindle brushhog...hit a spring like that a couple of years ago. Hit the clutch, raised the mower and continued on. I used to be scared of hidden electric fence wire and barbwire, but the twin spindle just wads that stuff up and spits it out. I put 300 hours on this one last year, sharpened the blades twice.

J.Wondergem · Jan 19, 2013

That looks like a nice outfit, how wide is it?

Eldon (WA) · Jan 19, 2013

(quoted from post at 18:34:16 01/19/13)
That looks like a nice outfit, how wide is it?

It is 8' wide.

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Jan 19, 2013

A flail will do a good job of sucking in the end of a broken strand of gaucho wire and ripping it off posts while wrapping it up to.

37chief · Jan 19, 2013

So far I have wound up this bed spring, a water hose, and a piece of wire left from the cable company working on overhead lines. Each time was a trip back to the shop.Stan

RBnSC · Jan 20, 2013

Stan,
Had a tandem dump truck wind one up like that at the dump. Took the torch and got it out fairly easily. The hard part replacing the air hoses,hydraulic lines, and wiring,it took out everything inside the chassis.If the anchor brakes had not stopped him I think he would have tried to drive it back to the shop.
Ron

Harold Hubbard · Jan 20, 2013

You know how to wind up 500 feet of polywire in 10 seconds? Kuhn rotary tedder. Solid wads of that stuff don't cut nearly as easily as single strands.

Back in the 1950's the telephone company removed all the old solid single strand steel telephone wire and replaced it with modern cable. A few farmers tried to use it for fence, but it was too hard to handle, and rust pitted so that it snapped if you tried to bend it. Most of it wound up being tossed in the town dump. The town hired my father to push the dump over the bank that fall. He got about a mile of that stuff tangled in the racks of his JD 420 Dozer. Wire cutters wouldn't touch it, hacksaw wouldn't either. He cut some of it with a hammer and cold chisel against the dozer itself. Finally he had to hire someone with a torch to clean up the rest of it. I don't think he ever took that job again.

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