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37chief

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My list is getting longer every year. I have a 6 ft woods mower. So far I have run over several hats, a pair of glasses, my fire extinguisher. Just a couple days ago I chopped up my almost new radio head phone. I ran over my radiator grill , but it didn't get up into the mower blades. This is just my stuff. Other peoples stuff will be a list much longer. What have you ruined mowing? Stan
 
Couple of groundhogs and a small deer through the haybine rolls. A groundhog through the discbine, and baled a groundhog baling straw. A snake hanging out of a hay bale is common.
 
2 chainsaws (stihl Farmboss and a mini-mac 16), 250 foot unused roll of 12/2 Romex wire...amd the list goes on! :)
 
I balled up most of an old barbed wire fence tonight.

Then there was the time I broke my manifold off on a low branch and ran over my muffler (farmall h, original distillate manifold!)
 
Rotary mower ate my cap one windy day. Another time the rotary mower latched onto any wound up many feet of nice looking cable TV wire. Have had to unwrap many wraps of barbed-wire over the years.
 
Several deer (discbine)
4" diameter aluminum tube for an RV canopy (discbine)
Oven door ad cinderblocks (bushhog)
Barbed wire (discbine and bushhog)
Well casing (Haybine)
Childs pool, dolls, beachball old crib mattress and truck spare tire (bushhog)

All the bushhogging strikes was in "clean" residential lots.
 
(quoted from post at 21:21:28 05/22/13) 2 chainsaws (stihl Farmboss and a mini-mac 16), 250 foot unused roll of 12/2 Romex wire...amd the list goes on! :)
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Greg, can I ask how you got the chainsaws?
That had to be one bad (and expensive) day!
I think the worst thing, other than animals, that I have run through
mine was a piece of rebar. I don't know exactly how, but it got
flipped up just right and wrapped around almost like a piece of
barbed wire. Only a lot noisier and it had a definite "stop factor".
Slip clutch did work, but not soon enough!
 
My best memory of mowing was at an auction. The seller/ owner wanted to "show" how good his mower was. So he, while the sale was going on took his JD mower out for a mow, remember a lot of people around, cars and trucks parked. So anyway he mowes under a walnut tree. The blades were throwing walnuts 50 feet or more! He hit al least ten, nobody was hurt.
Some people just do not have common sense.
joe
 
Royse- I was cleaning out fence rows and edges of creek beds and left the saws where they sat. Forgot all about them :(
The next year, while cutting , I found them! Although in pieces
 
Nothing more than a few rocks and sticks, that I can remember. Oh yes, there was the dog cable the grandkids left laying in the grass. A cutting torch is a handy tool for removing 1/4" cable from under a mower deck.

Yesterday I laid my cell phone on the mower's air cleaner while it was sitting in the shop. It's a rear engine model. Well, you guessed it, I took off and mowed an hour without picking up the phone first. When I finished mowing I started thinking about the phone. Did I pick it up or not? Didn't see it in the grass and nothing went flying. When I got back to the shop with it I beamed a flashlight down under the engine and there it was. The protective case was rubbing against the drive shaft and was pretty well eaten through but the phone wasn't scratched. PHEW! Jim
 
Mowed over the top of these bunnies, never knew it, but didn't harm a hair on them. Only saw them after I was done and was walking the dog & he alerted on them. You'll have to blow up the picture and look closely. Next morning Mom had moved them to a safer location.
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A turkey went threw my haybine, not that I wanted to run it over. A fawn threw our flail mower, again can't see them in the tall hay.
 
16' cattle panel.

It took about an hour with a torch cutting it out, piece by piece.
 
Caught some barbed wire in a brush hog, That was fun to get out. Gotten a few turtles through a haybine. Nice loud bang coming out of the rolls. Went to a New Idea cut-ditioner, it"s really rough on snakes.
 
One of my neighbors stuck 10 ft of barbwire & 2 fence posts in his shredder. Stalled the tractor instantly. SWIMBO & I high fived each other. When this guy rebuilt the section of fence between his property & ours he bulldozed all the scrub trees, old posts and wire onto our property. We spent 2 days cleaning up the mess except for the section I mentioned above. While cleaning up the mess I found that section and in a fit of anger( think Incredible Hulk) I threw it into his field.
2 weeks later he "found" it with the shredder.
 
Years ago my brother partially ran a big ole coon thru a little case self propelled winrower. Stalled out the motor, coon was in a really bad mood as we had to reverse the rolls by hand to get him out!
 
I remember dad hitting a skidder cable with the Ford sicklebar mowing back swaths...... Broke three knives, one stone guard, and the wooden pitman arm...... Darn loggers shut that machine down for two weeks with two minutes of laziness.
 
I lopped the feet off of a hen turkey with the sickle mower. She took off flying. A sick part of me wanted to see how that landing turned out for her. I'll bet it wasn't quite like she was expecting.
 
Plenty of stuff for me, but the worst was a hive of bees while on my JD 950 with a 5' Bush hog.
I found out those bees were faster than the little JD in 3rd gear, so I baled and ran...after getting about 15 stings.
 
40 feet of telephone wire, we had been having trouble and the company came out and fixed it. They fixed it by running new wire from the junction box to the house across the back yard, the yard had gotten too tall in the back and I did not know about the wire. Had a renter leave a set of horse shoes in the back yard($90.00 for a new set of blades)
 
First pass in a neighbor"s meadow of tall reed canary grass...............unknowingly followed an old fence line. Found out when I ran a post thru the haybine.........many yards of barbed wire were already behind the machine.
 
Tail wheel, small pin must have come out, wore out or sheared, cutting height was not too low, so the wheel came off on the 2nd to last pass, dusk, no rear work light on never knew it was off, so it got caught in the works, both blades wrecked, did not shear the shoulder bolts maybe the 1/2" grade 2 on the gearbox input shaft. Did a nice job on the side wall, took a little time to straighten that. Gearbox seems fine still no leaks, but I do recommend a rear work light, probably would have seen it off and stopped.
 
ive chewed up my share of hats, pieces of iron ect, but ive found the worst thing to hit with a brush hog is a golf ball, lol almost guaranteed to launch itself right up onto the operators platform on a open tractor and be right lively for a few moments
 
(quoted from post at 18:03:31 05/22/13) My list is getting longer every year. I have a 6 ft woods mower. So far I have run over several hats, a pair of glasses, my fire extinguisher. Just a couple days ago I chopped up my almost new radio head phone. I ran over my radiator grill , but it didn't get up into the mower blades. This is just my stuff. Other peoples stuff will be a list much longer. What have you ruined mowing? Stan
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Probably the worst was when the bolt came out of one of the stump jumpers on my Deere MX8 rotary....the other set of blades beat it up pretty good by the time it came flying out from under the mower. Hit plenty of rocks, bedsprings, electric fence wire, barbwire, guywire anchors, cement blocks, fawn, steel post, rebar, pipes...one nice thing about a twin spindle is that it will usually twist up any wire into a ball and spit it out.
 
I once ran over a sitting mallard duck with a disc mower. The poor duck was totally mincemeat but miraculously not one of the dozen or so eggs she was sat on were even cracked. I collected all the eggs, put them carefully in my lunch box and put them near the tractor gearbox to keep them warm until I got back home. We did not have an incubator or any "broody" hens at the time but I phoned a neighbour I knew that kept chickens and he told me that he had a broody bantam hen and if I wanted I could take the eggs up to his place and we could try them under her. A few weeks later I was chatting to the guy over the fence and I asked him about the eggs. "Oh it was amazing, every one hatched!" came the reply.
 
An antique wagon lug wrench with our Cub Cadet. Made a whummp like you wouldn't believe... Cub went WAAAaaaaa and almost killed before I could turn the key off. Cut the solid steel handle cleanly in two.
 
ran bambi thru a nh 489 after dark with a DC CASE,WHUOOP, twisted the drive shaft on the haybine ... didn't realize what I hit til next round, thought it was real thick hay ..whil mowing close to a fence row for a old fella .ran a stack of brix thru 5209n idea , "Ahh Hale I FORGOT ABOUT THEM "is all He SAID,mower never was the same ...worst was a small forgotten telephone line cable that made about 50 rolls around the 489 nh,,it rolled tite
 
My checkbook with a finish mower. Saw it next time around and thought someone had lost theirs. I forgot I had mine in my back pocket when I got on the tractor. Never did that again.
 
I ran a Skunk thur my JD haybine. Every time I cut wet hay the rest of the summer I could smell it.

David Pidgeon
New Haven, Vermont
 
Neighbor was mowing roadside on contract basis with a Ford 4610 (?), tried to run an inner spring matress thru a Hardee rotary cutter without much joy. Claimed he never saw the matress. Had to use bolt cutters and a side grinder to clear it.
 
neighbor was flail mowing next to his garden, as he looked out at the garden the pedestal mounted sprinkler vibrated and he thought that was a little odd. Next thing he knows the sprinkler is flying across the garden at 100 mph. 30 foot of his hose was wound around the mower flails. Came out with a pocket knife about a foot at a time. Bill
 
Had a lot of close calls, but never hit a bambi or turkey with the mower yet (did get a bambi with the flail chopper - that was a mess in the feeder wagon!), but did mow a badger once. And old fence posts and barbed wire...I think everyone who's mowed more than a few acres has done that.
 
Bush-hog- stabilizer bar, 100' rusty barbed wire, several beer bottles, one big yellow jackets nest.

Reel mowers- tennis shoes, towels, shirts, even golf clubs, but tennis balls leave a mark!

Cycle mower- Nothing remarkable except for the Hornest nest that was twice the size of my head. Never knew Ford 641 could go that fast in 1st gear.
 
My two most memorable were;

When I was but a young lad, I made money mowing yards. Push mower found a shovel head. Spit that thing 20 feet into the side of a garage and it stuck. Bent the crank in the mower and trashed the engine. I had to go buy a replacement mower to finish the job.

Fast forward some 30 years, I was hired to mow some vacant land. The owner assured me that it had set empty for 10 plus years. Using a rotary mower, I found a collapsed rabbit cage and promptly wrapped it around the blades. My little 2-3 hour mowing job turned into a full day of misery. I also found about 200’ of fence wire. Thought it was a big snake until I realized it was coming at me and not heading away. To the owner's credit he offered to pay the full day.
 
A pair of car ramps. 300 ft of high tensile wire, car rim, water yard hydrant, a coil of steel cable.

The best one I saw; I was running a 6ft mower, following behind the guy in the batwing mowing along the state hwy. The right wing of the batwing mower hit a propane tank from a grill.
It stood the wing almost straight up when she went bang.
 
Was making the opening pass on a field with my 499 haybine. Ran a fawn through it. Thought I hit a slug of wet hay. It wasn't till I came back around the other way, I seen what it was. I got out and looked around, and about 4ft in front of the haybine where I stopped was another one bedded down tight. I straddled it with the tractor on the first pass. It just laid there curled up. I picked it up and set it by a tree about 20ft from the field. Within the hour the doe was back, the fawn jumped up and ran to it and off they went. BW
 
(quoted from post at 08:16:48 05/23/13) Was making the opening pass on a field with my 499 haybine. Ran a fawn through it. Thought I hit a slug of wet hay. It wasn't till I came back around the other way, I seen what it was. I got out and looked around, and about 4ft in front of the haybine where I stopped was another one bedded down tight. I straddled it with the tractor on the first pass. It just laid there curled up. I picked it up and set it by a tree about 20ft from the field. Within the hour the doe was back, the fawn jumped up and ran to it and off they went. BW
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I usually scare up the fawn with the tractor and 8' Bushhog, and have only hit 2 in about 1000 hours of cutting. Both were in 6-8' tall reed canary grass and they got tangled up in it and I didn't see them. When I see one I always assume there is another. They usually run deeper into the field, so once they get scared up I have to keep an eye out for them. One I heard squeal when I squeezed it up against a woven wire fence with the front tire, another I stopped right over the top of it, reached down and tapped it to get it to move. I know they are just a nuisance when they grow up, but I sure hate it when I hit one.
 
Buch-hog - 4" length of steel lintel. Made one big noise as it left out from under and proceeded through the woods.

Finish Mower - 2 wire tomato cages. First noticed when the smoke started emanating from underneath. That earned a new belt.
 
Not a mower, but this spring ran, a sweep through a live coon on the field cultivator. Must have caught her as I turned. Finally had to take sweep off to get her to slide off. Nice job in the dark.
 
Not a mower either. I was turning with the baler to bale the edge windrow and got too close to the tarp I cover the baler with. Took two hours to cut it out. Ruined both blades on my Leatherman and sprung the pickup on the baler.
 
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