Bush-Hogging the unknown...

grayrider · Jun 29, 2019

My Dad passed away little over 5 years ago and I help Mom much as I can, she?s been on me about cleaning out around the back side of Dad?s old barn and wood working shop, so I load up Dad?s old 601 Ford this morning and trailer it over and commence to bush hogging mostly polk salad, youpons, briars, etc behind the barn and in to edge of the woods. That?s when the sparks started flying, ran into some old guide wire that Dad must have thrown out there long time ago, I got about 20+ feet of this dang wire to cut off now.

Dean · Jun 29, 2019

Never do that without walking it at the right time of the year.

From the looks of things, you may be lucky.

Dean

grayrider · Jun 29, 2019

Oops, misspelled yaupon , Southerners on here will know what I?m talking about, as well as the polk salad

Andy Martin · Jun 29, 2019

We call it poke, or pokeweed. Polk is another designation.

A brush hog is a great way to pull wire out of the weeds.

Olliejunkie · Jun 29, 2019

That's about how it goes when I brush hog. Always break something. How do you like that set up with the chain? Never seen one like that.

Tony in SD · Jun 29, 2019

I have a dozer blade mounted on the front of my tractor. Comes in handy for such occasions.
BTW I know it?s pronounced a many different ways, most wrong, therefore it?s often spelled wrong but you didn?t run over a pile of ?guide? wire. You actually run over a pile of ?guy? wire. We all knew what you meant anyway. Sometimes I think spelling is over rated.

Goose · Jun 29, 2019

I can relate.

I once wrapped an entire hog panel up under a shredder. I spent a couple of hours with a cutting torch and bolt cutter.

James Howell · Jun 29, 2019

"[b:654c4848f0][i:654c4848f0]Polk is another designation[/i:654c4848f0][/b:654c4848f0]"

Yep, kinda like "[i:654c4848f0]polkat[/i:654c4848f0]".

JMOR · Jun 29, 2019

at least it doesn't look like it got up into the shaft seal as did my last encounter.

37chief · Jun 29, 2019

I feel your pain. Looks like it's time for a little torch work. Even previous mowed fields can cause a problem, by people throwing stuff over the fence. My worse is a complete bed spring wound around my flail mower blade drum. It will pick up 20 ft of chain link fence, and burn up the slip clutch before I know what is happening. When that happens it is a trip back to the shop, and a loss of a few hours. Stan

dpendzic · Jun 29, 2019

my bush hog has that chain hookup---works pretty good

coshoo · Jun 29, 2019

Army parachute in a disc mower is a bundle of fun, also. My knife was dull, and an old guy from house next door lent me his while he went home and sharpened mine.

tomtinker · Jun 29, 2019

Gives you more flex without doing damage to frame work when jumping ditches.

Bob · Jun 29, 2019

(quoted from post at 11:08:32 06/29/19) My Dad passed away little over 5 years ago and I help Mom much as I can, she?s been on me about cleaning out around the back side of Dad?s old barn and wood working shop, so I load up Dad?s old 601 Ford this morning and trailer it over and commence to bush hogging mostly polk salad, youpons, briars, etc behind the barn and in to edge of the woods. That?s when the sparks started flying, ran into some old guide wire that Dad must have thrown out there long time ago, I got about 20+ feet of this dang wire to cut off now.
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Inconvenient, I guess, but better than finding a body!

My renter has a large batwing mower and recently "found" a dead deer with one of the wings, wasn't pretty, and makes you think what all one might find in TALL grass and weeds!

grayrider · Jun 29, 2019

Southerners call it guide wire or guyed wire, haha

dr sportster · Jun 29, 2019

That is what my garage door guy did to me. Nice professional job until...

jeffcat · Jun 29, 2019

Been there done that a few times finding old fence rows. Yup lots of fun. Don't ever run over a bed mattress on the hiway!!!!! How did this guy get his electrical harness caught?

jeffcat · Jun 29, 2019

The rest of the bed. Do you think they figured it out?

John M · Jun 29, 2019

BTDT! Fortunately I was able to stop before scattering bones everywhere.

gajack · Jun 29, 2019

A few years back neighbor asked if he could borrow my tractor and cutter do six over grown acres behind his shop. I told him I would cut it for him. After two
passes had to stop and ask him if he had any more car bodies hid out there. He said that's the reason "HE" wanted to cut it because he knew where "MOST" of them were. Told him he might want to rent something like a bobcat to clear this property first. He never did, and was still over grow when he sold the place.

Oregon Tractor Jack · Jun 29, 2019

I was brush hogging the field next to our property in preparation for fire season. There was a poison oak bush growing on a little mound. I thought how was the time to get rid of it so I mowed it. The bush was growing out of a scrap pile and I wrapped a section of old wire fence up in the mower. What fun that was cutting all of the poison oak soaked fencing out of the mower. Don't know how, but I didn't get any of it on me that time.

OTJ

ditchwitch · Jun 29, 2019

I did that same thing Fathers Day. I went to my Daughters house to bush hog her horse pasture she was making and found where the son in law left his pressure washing hose. It was a dang mess to get out it was even over the stump jumper. I told her you need to tell him to put his stuff up. Gezz lazy kids

ditchwitch · Jun 29, 2019

That jeep picture has been on the internet for a while .I remember seeing that several years ago. Makes you kind of wonder just how far he drove that thing before he started thinking i think i feel something different.

Texasmark1 · Jun 30, 2019

Mine was helping a new neighbor by mowing his field that hadn't been disturbed for many years.....over the Bumble Bee nest I went and they weren't happy. Lucky I didn't get hit sitting in my open station.

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