Gas powered pull type bush hog questions

Graveyard1984 · Aug 12, 2019

I've seen these small gas powered pull type bush hogs you can pull them with a atv or utv. Is it a gasoline engine mounted on a mower deck. Swisher is a big company who makes them.
I have a couple of small areas where they would be handy to have.

There so expensive to buy a new one can't find used ones.

Has anyone ever built one? If so tips or tricks or suggestions

Thanks

544hydro · Aug 12, 2019

I have a swisher pull behind for my atv. It is a gas engine that powers it. It s handy for me running through woods maintaining trails or softer wet spots the tractor might have problems with.

LAA · Aug 12, 2019

I have seen several sell on auctiontime and they don't bring much at all, couple hundred bucks up to 500 or 600 for the 20 hp electric start, if you can find one in an auction you might get a deal.

Mutt and Jeff · Aug 12, 2019

More HP
Slower speed

It would seem that trying to run a tagalong brushog will have needs
like it just bogs down and burns belts ect

and the atv has burned up 3 drive clutches or systems trying to creep along slow enough

Geo-TH,In · Aug 12, 2019

You can't just more redneck than this. I used a 3.5 hp Briggs with cast iron flywheel. A 33 inch snapper deck with a 30 inch blade.

I made it under powered so if I hit something it wouldn't damage anything, just kill the engine. It's has about 6 inch clearance and can cut small saplings. Attaches to tractor in 2 points. Use it to mow over bosses flowers after frost.

DR. EVIL · Aug 12, 2019

Neighbor has a Swisher he pulls with his small lawn tractor offset to the side so he mows 5-6 ft instead of only 3 ft. Has a big open backyard.
You could make one out of a spare garden tractor mower deck and a spare engine, but a vertical shaft engine would work best. If you have to buy either the deck or the engine probably makes sense to just buy a Swisher or DR mower ready to go.

kcm.MN · Aug 12, 2019

I like that George. Well done.

Traditional Farmer · Aug 12, 2019

As cheap as lawn tractors with mowers are at auctions why run two motors instead of one?

JMOR · Aug 12, 2019

(quoted from post at 07:20:15 08/12/19) As cheap as lawn tractors with mowers are at auctions why run two motors instead of one?

ider cut & much faster travel, not to mention getting out of most of the chaff & dust along with much smoother ride for operator.

Steve@Advance · Aug 12, 2019

I'm not sure you would like it for small areas.

Someone I know saw one, wanted it, bought it, hated it, sold it at a huge loss.

Said it was too hard to maneuver, but he was probably not good at turning and backing because of limited mobility and health.

dzc3 · Aug 12, 2019

I have a Kunz mower with a 20 Kohler Command engine. I pull it behind a 94 Toyota 4X4. Speed is about right in 4 low, and I enjoy the AC and radio will mowing. I offset it to one side so I can see it.

Traditional Farmer · Aug 12, 2019

Can't see how it'd faster and you can get decks on garden tractors just as wide as any of those mowers and if you think you'll stay out of the dust you must have never run a brush hog.

JMOR · Aug 12, 2019

(quoted from post at 08:47:37 08/12/19) Can't see how it'd faster and you can get decks on garden tractors just as wide as any of those mowers and if you think you'll stay out of the dust you must have never run a brush hog.

K, that you can't see it, but I have. Clearly op is not going to stay out of ALL dust, but at least at the end of the day, I don't look like I took a bath in cut grass and dirt, as I do on a rider. Several feet ahead of deck, instead of on top of it. You ought to try one.

ratface · Aug 12, 2019

I was looking at the one I have sitting in the barn that I don't use anymore, If you
are anywhere near NW Illinois I would let it go cheap just to reclaim the space.Email
if interested.

Traditional Farmer · Aug 12, 2019

Wouldn't any different from a pull type brush hog would it? Plus they throw things out the front.

Russ from MN · Aug 12, 2019

Our son had one for a few years, worked well for him. He bought it used, and it was real easy to sell when he moved. They are very common in N MN.

Leroy · Aug 12, 2019

Friend has one to mow his lawn with. He pulls it with a John Deere LA tractor, same tractor he works his about an acre and a half of farm ground.

Janicholson · Aug 12, 2019

I built one with a 12 HP briggs it was 40 inch and when sold it was working well. Jim

Russ from MN · Aug 12, 2019

This is what we use on our trails that are too narow for the tractor/Bush hog. It's an old Mott with a 2 cylinder Wisconsin.

SVcummins · Aug 12, 2019

Looks good George. I?ve always wanted some tractor tread tires for the garden tractor

Geo-TH,In · Aug 12, 2019

Bar tires are available. This old craftsman is a good pulling tractor because it doesn't have a cheap HST or uses 2 belts and a variable pulley which are easily damaged pulling things. This tractor has a 6 speed gearbox.

Geo-TH,In · Aug 12, 2019

A finish mower doesn't have the clearance need to be a brush hog. One long blade does a better job cutting brush than a finish mower with 3 smaller blades.

SVcummins · Aug 12, 2019

I bet that does work nice to have a real 6 speed transmission for doing jobs where you need to put power to the ground

Noah W · Aug 13, 2019

I have a walk behind DR Brush Mower I use for the places I can't get to with a 5 ft. bush hog. Got the DR 20+ yrs. ago and it still works and runs just as good as the day I got it. That combination has worked well. I don't too many places I can't get to with the bush hog. Considering the prices of a new 26", 14.5 hp. DR are about the same, or less, today as I paid for a new one 20 yrs. ago, I would consider it a deal. Even at 71 I can still run the DR without wearing myself out.

Noah W

Married2Allis · Aug 13, 2019

Could add nitrous oxide for more power.

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