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Things to do w/ my new IH 504

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Kirk Grau

03-19-2004 06:17:15




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Brought this home last week. Also has an an IH 2001 Loader mounted. Been playing with it and seems to be pretty sound. Now a few questions:

How much brush hog can I hang on the back of this. My neighbor has a 7' for sale and it looks really nice. Only use would be for grooming pastures that are pretty clean.

Also looking at a manure spreader (PTO driven). Main use would be as storage for stall mucking residue (maybe 2-3 days depending on weather/smell/insects). Than I hook up the tractor and haul it over to the neighborhood manure pile and let the PTO offload it for me. As compared to current method of loading tubs, setting tubs on truck, driving to pile daily, dumping tubs. Anyway, how much spreader could I hook up and use as described. Also, might want to use spreader occasionally on pastures.

Thanks in Advance,

Kirk

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Puller504

03-22-2004 04:08:57




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 Re: Things to do w/ my new IH 504 in reply to Kirk Grau, 03-19-2004 06:17:15  
I have used 5 foot, 6 foot and 7 foot wide brushhogs on my IH504 over the years. Clipped the pasture on my Parent's dairy farm with the 5 footer, wasn't wide enough, took too much time. Borrowed a friend's 6 footer, this mower matched up with my 504 very well! The width of cut was close to the outside width of the rear tires. Used another friend's 7 foot wide Howse brushhog and had to put 1000 pounds of suitcase weights on the front bracket of the tractor just to get it on my trailer without back-tipping! Only did that once and went back to the lighter, more efficient 6 foot cut mower. I still use about 500 pounds of weights on the front end to stabilize the 504 on hills. Hope this helps! Don

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BobMo

03-19-2004 19:48:11




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 Re: Things to do w/ my new IH 504 in reply to Kirk Grau, 03-19-2004 06:17:15  
Scotts right on those weights. Had the same conditions with a heavy duty 6'. To estimate the weight requiered I just had my girl friend set on the front of the tractor and I could see that was about right, 450 lbs. As soon as I lifted those weights in place it occurred to me should get a new friend because if she gets down I'll never be able to get her up..... ....Good luck.!



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Kirk Grau

03-20-2004 04:16:53




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 Re: Re: Things to do w/ my new IH 504 in reply to BobMo, 03-19-2004 19:48:11  
How painful is it to just mow with the loader attached instead of adding weights? It doesn't look impossible to remove, but hard enough that I don't want to do it very often. That would add some ballast up front.

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Kirk



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DoubleR

03-19-2004 19:17:24




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 Re: Things to do w/ my new IH 504 in reply to Kirk Grau, 03-19-2004 06:17:15  
I had one and it will handle the bruch hog just fine under most conditions. I spread alot of manue with my I-H ground driven speader and it just played with that,



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Scott

03-19-2004 17:44:27




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 Re: Things to do w/ my new IH 504 in reply to Kirk Grau, 03-19-2004 06:17:15  
I had a 504 that I used a 7 ft bush hog on. Only thing that I did was add some weights to the front of the tractor front end was a little light on hills but no proplem with power. I also used it to haul thousands of loads of manure with a new holland 155 spreader. With your 3 days worth of stall manure you won't even know you have a load behind you!



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Jonathan

03-19-2004 07:27:08




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 Re: Things to do w/ my new IH 504 in reply to Kirk Grau, 03-19-2004 06:17:15  
That 7' brush hog should be fine. I don't know about a manure spreader though.



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