OK, Let's Straighten This Out Once and For All!

Thanks for the replies,
Nathan

That's what we call them in this part of Texas. But I don't use that word on this forum anymore, cuz all the "what are you talking about?" replies I got.

Generally noted as "that thing on the back of the tractor that cuts grass and other stuff and when you run over the basketball with it shoots it about 100 yards in six pieces." Or so says my neighbor's kid after an unfortunate accident.

They all are "rotary cutters"!! Bush Hog is a brand. Just like Woods, or John Deere is a brand!!

Brush hog is the "slang" word used for all the brands of Rotary cutters. Around here they are called "brush Hogs" if your useing slang, and "rotary cutters" if you aren't

Robert.

Perhaps i wasn't clear, but i never ment to leave out any other brands of "rotary cutters" that i didn't happen to mention, as that list is waaaay to long to wrtie them all down. I'm sure there's lots of them out there that i don't even know about too.

Robert

All three are acceptable terms of communications concerning this type of "cutter/mower".

Around here (in my observations) it's a bush hog if you are talking generic, Bush Hog if you are talking brand name, a shredder is in the kitchen for cheese, a brush hog is a wild pig or a bush hog from somebody north of the Ohio River, and a rotary mower is in the yard. All part of the local dialect in your part of the world. Even the folks that make them cant decide on a single name for the product.

Since 'rotory mower' can refer to all types of different designs - heavy duty like you are refering to, finishing mower, even a flail mower is 'rotory', to describe a real heavy duty brush cutting rotory mower but avoid the trademark issue (Bush Hog must protect it's trademark or lose it, so if you publish in a widely ciculated publication you will get a letter from their lawyers if you would refer to a generic mower as a 'bush hog'), most folks call them brush hogs.

I'm confused about the terms 'disk harrow' to chase down different regional terms. Where did that come from? A disk has the round blades on it, a harrow has teeth of some type to level ground. How did it come about to call a 'disk' a 'disk harrow'?

--->Paul

The 'free publicity' is a double edged sword in that regard.

--->Paul

'sides, who really cares what you call it?

Like the others, I have to go with rotary cutter. One point I do want to bring is the brush vs. bushog idea. I've heard a similar thing with wheat seperators. I've even seen books where they're called both threshers and thrashers. Grandad had it right when he called it a seperator. Hope this helps. God bless.

--old fashioned farmer

p.s. Loved the pig story..ha ha.

The idea of brush hog reminds me of a nieghbor who turned about 20 full grown hogs into a field of bushes, without rings in their noses. They cleared the land of bushes and did the primary tillage as well. They even uprooted small trees up to 10' high, and 4" in diameter.

Mark

The thing on the front of a tractor I call a loader. A bucket or pail is the small thing that I use to tote things around in. Never seem to have enough five gallon ones.

Actually it is a rotory mower , and one of the many brands is Bush Hog .

george

Same thing with tractor loaders. Some call them buckets, some loaders, some even Farmhands. In my mind a bucket is the part of a loader that carrys the material. Farmhand is a brand name like Bush Hog.

JM2CW

JT