JD 709 Brush Hog

eye4iron

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I removed the blades from my JD 709 brush hog so I can sharpen them. They are the kind that are offset down lower than the arm that is bolted to the gear box. I noticed they have a sharpened edge on the back side of the blade also. Since the brush hog only turns one direction, why do the opposite sides of the blades have an edge also?
 
If they are the flat blades that do not have any twist in them, the blades are used on other mowers that have more than one gear case. These gear boxes turn the opposite direction. JD made the blades non directional.
 
Please correct me if i'm wrong.
I always thought that only the Bush-Hog company built bush-hogs. The other companys built rotary-cutters.
Here is a man calling his machine a John Deere bush-hog.
 
In my area, "brush hog" is a very common name for a rotary cutter, or some people call them shredders. I actually have a Ford brand rotary cutter that I refer to as my brush hog. "Bush Hog" as you say is a brand, but that isn't what he said he had.
 
(quoted from post at 13:22:07 08/13/13) Please correct me if i'm wrong.
I always thought that only the Bush-Hog company built bush-hogs. The other companys built rotary-cutters.
Here is a man calling his machine a John Deere bush-hog.

The most popular make of something, when they first come out many times, becomes the common name for all equipment of that type. Another example is that many call skid steer loaders "Bobcats".

It is really just an exercise in net picking. We all knew what he was talking about.
 
Annoys the heck out of me when somebody refers to my
Yamaha snowmobile as a skidoo.
Calling all facial tissues "Kleanex" is another.
 
The two edged knives are common to several JD rotory cutters. Some have two or three rotors on them and they rotate on oposite directions to one another.
 
Thanks for the information. The next time I post a question I'll take the Oliver Wendel Douglas approach and talk like a city slicker with the correct terms for "agricultural farming equipment". Ha ha.
 
Mr. Eyeforiron.
When I was in the army and one would go to the supply room you had to ask for the proper nomenclature of the part you were wanting or you didn't get it.
When I was in a civilian job and was in manintance, the same process or you didn't get the part or machine.
There is nothing wrong with being proper and prompt.
 
"Please correct me if i'm wrong......Here is a man calling his machine a John Deere bush-hog."


Correction= He called it his "brush hog".

The John Deere parts people around here would know what he was talking about and sell him the right one.
 
No problem. That's why I put the haha behind it. No offence was taken. I guess some of this is the same as when you ask someone to hand you a crescent wrench instead of saying an adjustable wrench.
 
Eye4iron" sounds like you might have a sense of humour. I wuzn't trying to pick on you, its cause in every occupation people tend to rename stuff.
When I wuz in the army, I went to the supply sargent and said I wanted a gizmo to make the thing a ma jig run so the swaush plate would run the gimminling ring and turn the rotor.
He handed me some spark plugs and told me that he didn't fall off a turnip wagon this morning.
 

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