Working on my second mowing job for the day. Mowing along sun is not hot, a slight breeze from the ocean. Then my mower just stopped. I snagged a piece of chain link fence that wrapped around my flail mower drum. All I could do was load up and take the tractor home. It's going to take a while to remove the fence. This was about the third time this has happened. The worst was a complete bed spring wrapped around my mower drum. Stan
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rlp in Co.
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Don't feel bad. I wrapped at least a hundred feet of electric fence wire on my garden tractor mower. Took a few hours to cut it out.
DaveBN
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The one I hate is to get a nylon rope or nylon gunny sack wrapped around the spindle of my mower. The friction burns the nylon which turns it harder than a hammered cat turd. You can't cut it and you can't pull it out of there.
Dave
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RobCons
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I feel your pain. What gets me is cutting an area 2 or 3 times with no problems then finding something that was obviously there for years.
Texasmark1
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Funny you say that. I sold off my cows and just hay now. I have a hot wire around the perimeter of the field that's been there for years and the wire is rusted. Been raining and can't do any haying but I do trim around the fence with the riding mower. Every time I do it I think about what you said and me getting my neck cut off if I got onto a piece of it and things went for the worst.
So, today, I have nothing scheduled. I think today is the day that I roll up that wire. In thinking about how to do that, I have a plastic, hand held spool of about 14" in diameter, that is used by electricians to roll up extension cords of 100'. That will give me aboutg 3.5' per revolution...I can handle that. I'll get the cord off it and use it to roll up the wire. To get it off.....thinking......still thinking.....still thinking.....
So, today, I have nothing scheduled. I think today is the day that I roll up that wire. In thinking about how to do that, I have a plastic, hand held spool of about 14" in diameter, that is used by electricians to roll up extension cords of 100'. That will give me aboutg 3.5' per revolution...I can handle that. I'll get the cord off it and use it to roll up the wire. To get it off.....thinking......still thinking.....still thinking.....
Richard G.
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One of my worst ones was a 50 foot hose pipe I forgot about in tall fescue.
My old 39 JD A really lugged down before I could grab the clutch.
And for those of you not from our part of the world, a hose pipe is sometimes called a garden hose.
Richard in NW SC
My old 39 JD A really lugged down before I could grab the clutch.
And for those of you not from our part of the world, a hose pipe is sometimes called a garden hose.
Richard in NW SC
Net wrap in the brush hog, I knew it was there too. I got a trash bag in my finish mower, didn't think to much about it. It somehow melted into a solid plastic ring and took out the bearing. I mow the lane by my house and I picked up a pair of women's jeans in the finish mower, they got wrapped up and smoked the belt.
rig up a cordless drill to wrap electric wire on a spool.I do it all the time a couple times a year. no hand cracking for me.
I use electrician spools from wire. Made of tin.
1 X 14 inch long 3/8 rod and 2 inches from the end a U shape welded on with the 2 pokers facing away from the drill. At the other end just a wooden block with a hole drilled through 3/8 for the center and 2 screws about 2 inches apart.(whatever the spool holes are apart) keeps the spool kinda centered. Hold drill in one hand and extra rod on other end and walk along. If it gets to heavy we sometimes set it on the quad and have someone slowly drive along. I also have a homemade wire wrapper for barbed wire that works great for large heavy jobs.
I use electrician spools from wire. Made of tin.
1 X 14 inch long 3/8 rod and 2 inches from the end a U shape welded on with the 2 pokers facing away from the drill. At the other end just a wooden block with a hole drilled through 3/8 for the center and 2 screws about 2 inches apart.(whatever the spool holes are apart) keeps the spool kinda centered. Hold drill in one hand and extra rod on other end and walk along. If it gets to heavy we sometimes set it on the quad and have someone slowly drive along. I also have a homemade wire wrapper for barbed wire that works great for large heavy jobs.
The 40th anniversary of Mt. St. Helens eruption brought this to mind. The Army set up their base of operations in a field across from the fire hall in Salkum, where I lived, 27 miles from the mountain. It was a field I hayed in those days, and they didn't flatten everything, so I started mowing after they left. I had a Taarup disc mower, and hit a discarded parachute hiding in the tall grass. It wound up instantly, tractor went chug and died. So I crawl under it with my dull pocket knife and start hacking. Pretty soon a very old man came out to investigate, and said "Why don't you use my knife while I go sharpen yours?" Sounded good to me. His was razor sharp, and made pretty quick work of the 'chute. I was just finishing up when he came back, and my knife was now as sharp as his. I thanked him, and I'll never forget his reply- "No, thank YOU for giving an old man something useful to do today."
Janicholson
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In agreement with David G, Having a conversation when accepting a job that explicitly states that: 1} Anything that is hit and damaged in the area designated to mow is not the responsibility of the operator or company providing the mowing service. 2} any object within the designated mowing area that is not marked to avoid, that damages the mower, is the responsibility of the person making the contract to mow.
Then in the contract, spell these out as above or with better legalese. Announcing it in the initial contact, and indicating the need to walk the field or other assessment of Foreign Object detection should precede the date of initial mowing. Any material detected before accidental encounter will be avoided and not disturbed. Repair charges may be incurred up to but not greater than the replacement cost ov the equipment, including labor and time for loss of work opportunity. Jim
Then in the contract, spell these out as above or with better legalese. Announcing it in the initial contact, and indicating the need to walk the field or other assessment of Foreign Object detection should precede the date of initial mowing. Any material detected before accidental encounter will be avoided and not disturbed. Repair charges may be incurred up to but not greater than the replacement cost ov the equipment, including labor and time for loss of work opportunity. Jim
Dennis(IA)
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I have better luck than most people. A couple of years ago I was mowing my field with a Brady flail mower behind my WD 45. And the drawbar started to swing, looked down and one of the bolts that hold the drawbar strait came out. So I stopped and started looking for it. Found the nut and lockwasher. Could not find the 5 inch long bolt (never did find it) then I saw something, ah finally the bolt. I reached down to pick it up and it was my smart phone, totally undamaged. I had it in its holder that clipped in my right front pocket. How lucky can a guy get? Of course now the phone stays in the house when doing any type of tractor or mowing work.
I did enjoy all of your stories.
I did enjoy all of your stories.
I was about 7 or 8 when we got dial phones,no more calling the operator to place a call. Be fore you had to but the wire from town to your house,the next neighbor had to buy part of your wire, and add to it to get to his house. So when the new under ground wire was hooked up the wire owners unhooked the wire from the poles and roll it up. Dad took a wooden spool left over from the new wire, and a neighbors 420 JD and bolted to spool to a rear wheel. They just jacked up the the one wheel,and put it in gear and wrapped up 1 mile of wire in a few minuets. (the front of the spool would unbolt for wire removal.)
David Snipes
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For wrapped up tight nylon I have used a small gas torch to quickly melt a channel through it and it comes off more easily. The small torch tip keeps things from getting too hot to damage anything, as long as you pay attention.
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