Re: Do you need front weights if you use a bushhog

Posted by the tractor vet on September 21, 2006 at 07:28:55 from (75.24.23.154):

In Reply to: Do you need front weights if you use a bushhog? posted by Blue3992 on September 20, 2006 at 21:36:08:

Well that all dependes on a lot of things how heavy the brush hog is and how much of a tractor ya got in ft. of it and the lay of the land . Back many moons ago like 1970 my buddy and i took a job mowen gas line wright away for Tennaco . We had a almost new 310 Case dozer with three point hitch and PTO we rented a 430 Case Diesel and the dealer also threw in a 340 International that had a side mount sickel bar hyd. driver and old township tractor we also rented three heavy duty Brush hog one 8 footer and two seven footers . The 430 had 500 lbs on the nose to start , nothing on the 340 or the dozer but the 7and a half foot blade . Now when they put in a gas line from Texas to Ny. they just draw a line on the map and go for it . my buddy and i hauled all the equipment down to the starting point on a Sunday so we could hit it hard on monday morning . Well at 7 am monday morning we meet the section boss and we started , me barly made one round and shut it down and went back and started scrounging up ft. weights even for the dozer . Well we welded on two IH ft bracked to the top of the blade on the dozer and put 2000 on the nose of it and a nother 1000 on the 430 . we learned that Industral rear tires that were on the 340 were not ment for the HILLS real fast as that is how you would come down the small hills with it so that tractor sat most of the time . We even had the Ft. tire on the 430 loaded along with loaded rear tire and extra weights on the rears . Now i want to tell ya that these littel hills were steep and there was not a day that went by while doing this job that ya did not put racing stripes in your dwars . Now if ya think that a dozer can't slid off a hill going stright up and stright down i am here to tell ya that it can and if ya don't believe me you can ask my buddy he rode it down one hill with the tracks locked up brush hog bouncing up made it look like and air boat . Now sliding off one of them hills was not too bad as long as ya could keep it stright , the bad part was the tareses that they cut across the side of the hills WITH A D 9 . You could get some seirous AIR under the tractor or dozer if ya started sliding . There were some hills on those 4 lines that we mowed that the 5 young guys that we hired to do the hand work around fences and stand pipes could not get there dirt bikes up and they would have to ride with either of us or walk . People would see us working a hill and bring there lawn chairs out and set and watch the show. by lunch time it was time to head to the Point Bar for some nerve medcine . Some days we could make real good time and others was spent fixen . Now i am here to tell ya that them older brush hog were built way heavier then the stuff ya get today and we still broke them . Ya would be mowen along real nice in what ya thought was just grass and WAMMMM the brush hog would jump and before the slip chutch could do it's job ya would snap the shaft and stump jumper off and the whole assambly would be layen there or ya would snap a u/joint then it was back to the truck and start fixen or ya would run a thorn appel thorn in a tire and Snakes lots of snakes some all in one pice and not to happy and some times in KIT form . What bothered me the most was that everyday the BUZZARDS that kept Flyen over head , was not sure that they were cleaning up after us or waiting for us to mess up. Now after doing that job 99% of what we farm around here is FLAT LAND.

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• Re: Do you need front weights if you use a bushhog Sean Feeney 2 07:48:58 09/21/06 (0)

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