Re: How should Bush Hog blades be sharpened?

Posted by Rob on June 30, 2003 at 03:52:40 from (63.245.133.87):

In Reply to: How should Bush Hog blades be sharpened? posted by Popster (MD) on June 29, 2003 at 20:43:11:

I stood my hog straight up on the 3pt hitch gear and tied the tail wheel to a chain hanging from a low 12" tree branch. Stand up job. That thing stands pretty good on that gear, stable and no chance it will drop with that chain like that. I got it there using the boom pole on my 3pt.
Maintain the same bevel on the blades and try hard to remove the same amount of mat'l from each blade to keep the weight and balance even. Even if one blade doesn't need that much sharpening, you want balance.
When you get them sharp then file the sharp leading edge of the blade. You want a 1/16"+ flat leading edge so that too sharp edge doesn't roll back and undo your sharpening effort. Deburr them with a stone or hardwood and you are fini.
Can't hurt to wire brush the bolts and set screws under there and squirt Knock-er-loose on that stuff and oil or grease or something to seal them because who knows one day you might want to take them apart. Better then nothing at all. Won't take much. Might be a waste of time, won't hurt.

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