Bush-Hogs

[m75rlg]

I have a 4' Howse, pulled by a '49 Ford 8N. It's pretty tough. There are LOTS of rocks in Southwest Virginia.

While a wider bush hog is good on level ground, you don't want one TOO big when going down hill.

You don't want too much cutter on that 8N. With the live PTO, you can put in the clutch, and the cutter will act like a big fly-wheel, causing the tractor to keep moving forward as if under power.

White flint in the cutter is not to big a deal. They bust up into little white flint. Those gabero rocks just rattle around and put dents in the deck, though.

 

[reddogge]

I've been bush hogging with a 5' Woods on a '41 Ford 9N for 20 years and it handles it fine. Very important to install an overrunning clutch on the PTO though. Otherwise the momentum of the blade will push you into a wall when you go to stop.

 

[Muley Gil]

"Dum Virjenyuns.
Georgia mountain folk put tha two big tires on the right side an tha two little tires on tha left side, an ride aroun tha mountain sittin pretty an levil.
Course, ya haf ta keep goin around tha mountain. We loss Uncle Lonzo that way- he forgot his lunch an turnt aroun, an tumbled all tha way down to tha bottomland....."

I'd had folks visit and when they look at the steep pasture land, they ask how do the cows graze without falling over?

I jist tel 'um that we have left handed cows and right handed cows. The left handed ones have shorter legs on the left side so that they kin stand up straight. The RH cows are the opposite.

"You don't want too much cutter on that 8N."

Yup. That's why I bought the 4' one.

"Very important to install an overrunning clutch on the PTO though. Otherwise the momentum of the blade will push you into a wall when you go to stop."

So true. When I bought my tractor, it already had one on the PTO.