The Iron Curtain

Tall T

Well-known Member
What, me get political?

Thanks for all the input re my Cutter and to UD for informing me that chains were standard on the front.

As far as that [b:9c60877ec4]other[/b:9c60877ec4] thread goes . . .
I don't even have to read the next entry to know that it will be a total waste of time, but sincere thanks to JMOR and him for reminding me of my mother.

She used to say, with a twinkle in her eye,
"Where ignorance is bliss." :D

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I use chains on the back of all of my rotary cutters but belting on the front.

Aside from adding weight, the chains allow much more dust and debris to be thrown onto the back of the tractor and operator.

Dean
 

Dean,

That sounds like a very good plan!
Well at least I can use the same racks I made to hang belting from and I can move the chains to the rear and just hang them from the upright angle iron across the back. :)

Thanks!
Terry
 
Was wondering if those chains were short enough not to hit blade when pushed back by uncut grass etc. I see you have them spaced forward on with the hanger you made.

Garry
 
(quoted from post at 19:08:55 07/20/16) Was wondering if those chains were short enough not to hit blade when pushed back by uncut grass etc. I see you have them spaced forward on with the hanger you made.

Garry

Garry,

I did keep that in mind as Zane and others cautioned.
The closest the chains in the center come to the blade tip when each blade is lifted by hand is about the width of my biggest finger. :)

Thanks for the reminder,
Terry
 

Hobo,

I'm still wondering about that.
I've been going by someone else's way of adjusting his mower, with the blade 4" up from the ground in front. Now that I've got the chains hanging there, I'll lower it a little and have another look see tomorrow.

You're probably right.:)

TT
 
As it stands, two per side at the middle are now the right length for the center chains, but then they need to be longer, for the rest out the way out.

Send me a bag of those links. :)

T
 
(quoted from post at 20:51:05 07/20/16) What, me get political?

Thanks for all the input re my Cutter and to UD for informing me that chains were standard on the front.

As far as that [b:c130ab4999]other[/b:c130ab4999] thread goes . . .
I don't even have to read the next entry to know that it will be a total waste of time, but sincere thanks to JMOR and him for reminding me of my mother.

She used to say, with a twinkle in her eye,
"Where ignorance is bliss." :D

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guess it must be all that stuff that the airplanes are spraying on us made your mother & me that way, huh?
 
When I was a kid living on the farm we had a 1948 8N and later a five foot bush hog. That thing loved to hit you in the back with sticks and rocks
etc. There was a black man who worked on the farm. Albert Garrett. He was scared to death of that Bush hog. He fixed it though quiet simply. He took a
length of roofing tin and tied it under the drive shaft and under the belly of the tractor all the way back to the Bush hog gear box. Never got hit in
the back again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Zane
 
(quoted from post at 05:07:20 07/21/16) When I was a kid living on the farm we had a 1948 8N and later a five foot bush hog. That thing loved to hit you in the back with sticks and rocks
etc. There was a black man who worked on the farm. Albert Garrett. He was scared to death of that Bush hog. He fixed it though quite simply. He took a
length of roofing tin and tied it under the drive shaft and under the belly of the tractor all the way back to the Bush hog gear box. Never got hit in
the back again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Zane

Zane,

Good story! :)
Great idea as well; a shrapnel guard, but I'm trying to figure out how the sheet metal made it all the way back to the gearbox. Was the tin only as wide as the two lower links
so that it could slide within the Hog's A-frame or were there two long slots where the lower link pin mounts are on the hog, on a wider (4') piece of tin?

Since I don't have any belting at the moment and my curtain doesn't look quite tight enough or long enough at the moment, that would be a real quick insurance fix. I've spent all the time I want to spend on this thing with summer fading fast and many other tasks a waitin'.

These killer mowers definitely seem to be the implement from hell, for sure! I haven't even [i:dd7073103d]used[/i:dd7073103d] it yet and it scares me.
:D

Terry
 

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