If you do that stuff long enough you WILL hit something. It's worse when you know something is there and hit it anyway.
I got distracted and touched a well casing with my mower conditioner, got stopped before it damaged the well, but bent the lean bar on the machine.
Fell in a hole that I have been dodging for over twenty years, and broke the front end out from under my Farmall C.
Have caught a couple of gate posts, trying to sneak something wide through.
The best way to avoid that kind of excitement is to find, flag, and weed whack around all expensive obstructions. Do i do that? Not always.
And yes you can get bush hogging insurance, mine is a rider on my farm policy. It really isn't that expensive if you aren't doing it full time, and only on private property. They base it on the amount of business you do, and have always taken my figures. On the other hand, I asked about mowing roadsides for the town, and the agent about had a cow. For that small contract, I would have paid a minimum charge, of about a quarter of the contract price. Then I would have needed more municipal/state work to bring the percentage down to something I could afford. Oh, and the insurance had to bought and paid for to be eligible to bid the job. Needless to say, I declined to bid.
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