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Posted by Indydirtfarmer on September 09, 2003 at 04:40:17 from (64.12.96.236):
A few days ago, there were a couple of post's about rotovators. There were good points brought out, and a few bad ones. Some people are pleased with the results, and some are not.
All things being equal, I like mine. I have several "customers" that use my services. It makes me money!
Yesterday made me reconsider.
I was working up a lawn, at a new house construction. The yard was kept clean through-out the building of the house. There wasn't supposed to be anything in the ground, that would cause trouble. Famous last words!
I had just got rolling. I heard a squealing sound, and looked back to see the slip-clutch smoking. I killed the PTO. What in the world was the problem?
I raised the 3pt hitch. To my suprise, I found that someone had left a long piece of 1/2" re-bar laying in the yard. The 'dozer man had covered it up. It caught one of the tines, and started wrapping around the center shaft, untill it had wound so tight, it stopped the tines from moving. Never saw a thing. Never heard a thing.
It made about 20 wraps around the center shaft. I spent the next 4 hours with a mini-grinder, and a cutting torch, trying to get all the "scrap iron" out of the tines. What fun!
The end damage was one tine broken, and one operator very tired and bummed.
No matter how carefull you are, these things are subject to damage from hidden objects. That is there biggest "weakness".
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