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37 chief · Jun 16, 2023

Last week I was mowing, and picked up a garden hose with my flail mower. The hose wound around the blade drum. It was so tight I had to go back to
the shop to remove it. So today back to the same field, and another hose wound around the blade drum. I was lucky, and was able to unwind the
hose. It's hard to see anything in tall grass. one of the worst was about 8 ft of chain link fence material, being pulled out a couple years ago. Just another day in the
neighborhood. Stan

paul · Jun 16, 2023

Neighbor had me mow and bale his 6 acre pasture this week.

I thought of you and others and the messes you run into on these jobs. But it had been mowed and baked by his friend last year, so figured it was fairly safe.

Worked out good anyhow.

Paul

Steve in VA · Jun 16, 2023

Crazy what hides in tall grass when owner assures you its clean. I wrapped 2 wire tomato cages around a finish mower.

r.w.b. · Jun 16, 2023

for a real thrill mow hay along a creek or river. never know whats washed up. 5 years ago we had a flood. found noahs arc in 1 field ,an old rotting wood flat bottom boat was out maybe 50 ft from creek bank.seen it real easy

JF in MI · Jun 16, 2023

In a shop I used to work at they once towed in a car with a big section of chain link spooled around the drive shaft.

RobCons · Jun 16, 2023

Scariest thing I have found was a BBQ grill sized propane tank. Riding along with the bush hog and turned around to see the corner of the mower push it to the side. Worst was a gallon of spoiled milk. That smelly stuff went everywhere.

Hoofer B · Jun 16, 2023

I will trade you. Last wednesday a truck driver of mine drove over a mattress on the interstate. It caught underneath and he did not stop until there was fire. Burnt up my truck, trailer and load. It shut down the interstate for 4 hours during rush hour. The clean up and tow bill alone was $18 K. Bill

Crazy Horse · Jun 16, 2023

Hoofer .... rough story for you, hopefully you're not on the hook for the cost. Even if insurance covers it I suspect you will eventually pay for at least some of it.

urbancase · Jun 16, 2023

worst i had was a man hole cover on some property a friend brought close to town and was going to develop, hit it with a 12 foot brush hog and tossed the lid out the back but wiped out the left side drive line. i didn't know they put storm waterline in the year before and weeds were ove 4 foot.

WI Dan · Jun 16, 2023

-37 chief
Yikes! I'm reading the stories and getting more worried...
Thankfully the places I mow are very remote and hardly touched by humans.

Stephen Newell · Jun 16, 2023

Sounds like you need a thorough walk through before you mow any more. I have places on my place where I have to walk through and pick up debris before I do anything. Then I will bush hog it before I take the zero turn in there. It's just mostly fallen limbs here but there is a few stumps I put a flag on.

miangus · Jun 16, 2023

Wow that looks like a bad day, stuff sure hides in tall grass. I tried to brush hog an area that I had placed some net wrap during the winter, I just forgot. What a mess to unwrap. You always remember just as you hit the item. The craziest thing I had happen is my finish mower picked up a black plastic garbage bag, no worry right just a bag. The bag got wrapped around a spindle and the heat generated melted the bag. The now liquid plastic entered the bearing, still no issues. When I stopped mowing the plastic hardened and damaged the bearing.

wheat straw · Jun 16, 2023

Having custom baled over a lifetime I have learned that some things turn out to be almost universally true. Example, If you pull into a new customers field and he assures you it's clean, you better use the creeper gears to cut it because you're going to find something in there. Hopefully you find it with your eyes, not your mower.
Andy

FBH44 · Jun 16, 2023

This does not compare to you guys, but I once bush-hogged 25 feet of log chain. Got pretty noisy.

miangus · Jun 16, 2023

At least you found your lost chain.

Hoofer B · Jun 16, 2023

It happend near a WI DOT scale. We just got access to the camera footage and are looking to see who lost their mattress. Their day could be getting worse. Bill

docmirror · Jun 16, 2023

Last Nov when I brush hog the sides of the runway, it's supposed to be clear of foreign objects I picked up some of that green plastic shade material. It was bound up tight. Took me almost an hour with a sawzall to get it all out of my hog shank as it has one of those disks on the bottom with the swivel blades bolted to the disk.

The over-run area on the side of runways is supposed to be walked each month for foreign objects. I know that stuff had been there likely since summer, maybe spring time.

37 chief · Jun 16, 2023

When I was in the Navy we had FOD (foreign object damage) ramp walk downs about every week. After morning quarters. Stan

wisbaker · Jun 17, 2023

Same for the Air Force with the weekly FOD walks, lucky I was an O- so my involvement was supervisory at most.

dpendzic · Jun 17, 2023

yes tall grass can cause many problems--i was coming down a steep trail in high grass in my small Misubishi SUV--not very fast when all of a sudden i got flipped over---there was a perfect shaped rock in the grass that was like a ski jump and flipped the SUV on its side and had to walk down the mountain to get my tractor to flip it back up rite

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