Seen a good Idea last week

John B. · Jul 25, 2013

The township mowed the ditches last week. When they were done they had an old silage blower hooked up on one of the tractors and had it blowing down & toward the ditch. It blew the cut grass back into the ditch... looked like it worked very well.

RayP(MI) · Jul 25, 2013

Here they leave the cuttings all over the pavement... Let wind off passing cars blow it off.

Royse · Jul 25, 2013

I haven't seen them mow a ditch near me in a decade or more.

gtractorfan · Jul 26, 2013

I came up behind a county dump truck yesterday using an underslung blade SCRAPING the grass and debris off a state highway where they were mowing. The problem was he was also scraping the stones on the berm and raising a big cloud of dust!

Ray · Jul 26, 2013

It's good intertainment watching these city slicker tractor drivers the state hires,getting stuck,running into stuff,mowing over steel drain grates,etc.

Greg K · Jul 26, 2013

good idea! I would think that a blower to clean out feed bunks would work good also.

NEKS · Jul 26, 2013

Don't know where our county is going. Use to have side mowers that mowed 5 feet and hired summer help to run them. Now went and bought 10 foot bat-wings and it changed two things. Can't mow when the ditches are muddy and shouldn't hire a city slicker to run them. The more you mow the more the residents expect you to do. Everybody wants a few acres in the country,(we love the country atmosphere) then want the roads paved and the dithes mowed clear to the main highway.

keh · Jul 26, 2013

As I said in an earlier post, People here with yards close or fairly close to the road mow with lawn mowers all the way to the pavement. They don't blow grass clippings off the pavement, just let passing cars blow the road clean. The state mowing crews do the same thing, the clippings are left in the road, along with trash that was kicked up from the shoulder of the road. I'm sure there has been plenty of flat tires because of that practice. When they used flail mowers or sickle bar mowers the cut grass and trash fell behind the mower instead of on the road. The earliest state mowing on the shoulder of the road was by a stripped down old dump truck pulling a #9 IHC horse drawn type mower with rubber tires. Later they put a tractor type cutterbar on the frame of the truck, operated off the transmission pto. Saved the salary of the man on the mower. Don't know about hydraulics.

KEH

Bret4207 · Jul 26, 2013

If you put the grass back int he ditch it just fills the ditch in faster. Seems like wasted effort to me.

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