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Paul L

03-25-2006 16:45:13

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Hey,

Wanted some suggestions on the best way to go about bush hogging a piece of property where you don't know what's under the hay. I've got a Case 430, and a 5ft bush hog. I know to go over it once higher up, then go over it again, but how'd you spot the rocks from sitting up on the tractor, or the gullies/holes? Is it easier then I think? Paul

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RWK in WI

03-27-2006 06:36:30

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Re: Best Way to Bush Hog in reply to Paul L, 03-25-2006 16:45:13

When I go into an area I am not sure of I use my tractor that has a snowplow or loader on the front. i set the snowplow or loader bucket so it just clears the ground. If it bounces up I know to get off and look. Sometimes I can raise the hog to go over the stumps, but other times it is time to throw junk in the loader bucket. It is suprprising what appears while cutting roadsides each year.

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Foz

03-26-2006 12:49:01

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Re: Best Way to Bush Hog in reply to Paul L, 03-25-2006 16:45:13

Put an electric fence around it. Then put way too many cows in side the fence. Borrow the cows if need be.Won"t take long and you will know where every thing big enough to be a problem is.

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Leland

03-26-2006 02:14:24

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Re: Best Way to Bush Hog in reply to Paul L, 03-25-2006 16:45:13

If your going to plant trees I would just roundup it let it die down and drop a match in it then you can mark holes and take a loader out there and collect trash and be done with it once and for all .

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Davis In SC

03-25-2006 19:35:46

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Re: Best Way to Bush Hog in reply to Paul L, 03-25-2006 16:45:13

It seems like most debris is found at old fencerows, & at corners of fields. Worth the time to take a walking tour, before you start mowing. One of the worst things here are old wells.

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Nebraska Cowman

03-25-2006 17:36:56

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Re: Best Way to Bush Hog in reply to Paul L, 03-25-2006 16:45:13

I'd walk the fields ealy in the spring before the grass gets tall. The winters snow and or rains will have knocked down the big growth. Then go slow and be carefull. The 430 should stall before you tear someting up.

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Billy NY

03-25-2006 17:32:42

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Re: Best Way to Bush Hog in reply to Paul L, 03-25-2006 16:45:13

I think it would be wise to carefully walk the areas you will cut, and look around for hazards, then take er easy while mowing with it up high, rocks can be hard to spot, but one time around you will find most of them, sometimes you'll feel them under a tire, but the first time around, keeping the mower up will help educate you on the area you are clearing if you go slow and keep an eye out, if the area is prevalent for rocks, stumps, any deep pits etc. Hopefully none loose on the surface, once a field is cleared of rocks around here, you might see and the occasional one rising up from frost heave.

Keep your guards on the mower, I had a softball size rock come out of a Bushog brand rotary cutter once, was 14 at the time, not sure if the guards, chains or anything was on this one to stop or dampen the energy of the rock turned projectile, it went 40 or so feet up, at a nice arc straight into the next field, right up the back side of the tractor, never before or never since have I seen one fly out like that.

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37 chief

03-25-2006 21:31:52

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Re: Best Way to Bush Hog in reply to Billy NY, 03-25-2006 17:32:42

I have thrown a lot of rocks, the rocks mostly go out the right side, be careful mowing along roads. I had a rock come out the front, hit the front tire and come right back and hit me in the eye. I now have a scar on eye for the rest of my life. Stan

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Dave from MN

03-25-2006 17:21:02

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Re: Best Way to Bush Hog in reply to Paul L, 03-25-2006 16:45:13

If burning restrictions are not in effect or if they are and you can geta burning permit- burn it off this first year. You can hit the larger stuff that does not burn with the "bush hog" later when you can see the ground. Its amazing what can be hiding in that tall grass and brush.

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Paul L

03-25-2006 17:26:53

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Re: Best Way to Bush Hog in reply to Dave from MN, 03-25-2006 17:21:02

DAve,

Problem with that is it's not an opened field. It's actually was planted for a tree nursery. So we're going to be planting more tree saplings. It was farmed maybe 50 - 75 years ago. Had a local guy bush hog it last year, as I just got my first tractor and bush hog, but he didn't do it that short and I'd want to bush hog more.

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Tom in TN

03-25-2006 17:09:27

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Re: Best Way to Bush Hog in reply to Paul L, 03-25-2006 16:45:13

Paul,

My experinence on an old, overgrown farm is that it is not easier than it looks. I have hit rocks, tree stumps, an automobile hood, and many other obstructions trying to clean up this farm. The worst experience I had was when the right rear wheel of my tractor dropped off into a sink hole that I didn't know was there. Fortunately, the tractor bottomed out on the side of the sink hole and the bush hog dug into the ground. I very nearly flipped the tractor.

I have no good advice to you other than to be careful. Stay alert and be ready to raise your bush hog on a moment's notice. Don't bush hog side hills if the ground is wet.

Good luck. It's dangerous out there.

Tom in TN

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Stickler

03-26-2006 05:43:11

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Re: Best Way to Bush Hog in reply to Tom in TN, 03-25-2006 17:09:27

Yep, old overgrown farm sites are nasty! One piece of my place hadn't been touched in 20 years. When i went to hog it, I found out why. There was everything from 1" wire rope to hydro poles to a 9N front end to an old sickle mower buried in that grass. Took me 2 years of mowing to finally find most of it. And then.....wife was mowing lawn one day, and decided to clean up a patch of grass sort of in a little clearing in the bush. She was on a ZTR mower, and ran straight into a 10' tandem disc. I had to lift the mower off it with the loader on the tractor. She'd nosed into the hitch, and the guide wheels on front of the mower deck rode up it until the blades hit. She was knocked off the mower, and 2 of 3 of the blade shafts were broken. We were just glad she wasn't hurt. Two previous owners never knew it was there.

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