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JD M and brush hog

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bill mart

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Anyone run a brush hog with their Model M Deere? Want to run a 5' with my M. I know it will be a little under powered but will the pto drive hold up. I know from personal experience about the John Deere R and its weak link in the pto gears. Bill
 
Neighbor has an m that he knows with ,5' cutter and hasn't seemed to have any trouble his is a pull type or trailer and isn't lifted with hydraulics .
 
Way back when the MT was considered a real farming tractor, we used the heck out of MT pto's without a whit of problem - AC round balers, corn pickers, rakes, mowers, etc. I'm sure the M and MT PTO's are identiacal.
 
actually using it on an MC crawler in multiflora rose. speed will be slow but I'm only cutting a path not a whole field or anything. Thanks everyone for the input. Bill
 
I've done quite a bit of "bush hogging" with my M with a 4-ft rotary cutter. In waist-high grass and weeds it makes it grunt but it does the job. If you keep stuff more under control I'd think a 5-ft would work but your front end will be very light. About 500 lbs is all I can lift with my hitch before it starts getting "wheelie-happy". With only 20 hp I wouldn't worry too much about the PTO drivetrain - it is quite different than the hammering torque of an R.
 
I'll second your recommendation. A transmission-driven PTO driving a rotary cutter can be a dangerous combination without an over-running clutch.
 
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