Somebody stole my quick hitch. Now it takes me 10 minutes just to try and talk myself out of trying to hook it up.
This almost always works, but can be varying degrees of messy, and in cases where pressure is very high or coupling large, can get more difficult.
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I looked at one of those for my JD 5075E, but was told it would tax my Hydraulics, and I needed to get the one that a Hydraulic motor mounted to my pto to run it. Great for Ponds and Firebreaks! I also learned that lesson about the lines with my Grapple. When that happens to me, I crack the T's and it connects right up.
I have been using my Laneshark alot. Using it right now. Hours at a time. No issues.
@walnutman The JD dealer who was selling it. He said I could run hedge trimmers off my third function, but not a land shark. What is the flow rate on it? I could probably run it off my skid steer since it looks like it would fit.
I ran over a hornet nest one time and had to leave my tractor and run. They swarmed it. I left it running for a while and had to go back out and move it after the sun went down. They do calm down after dark.One thing that came to mind when I read the first post in this thread, was hornets, ground-dwelling or otherwise. Given the time of year the brush hog would see the most use, I always half-expected to be attacked by hornets as I was connecting the thing.
It never happened, but maybe that made me move quicker?
I just got off the tractor snd shot everything with a temp gun. Hottest spot was the top of the Landshark motor at 170.
Everyone around here has a "I mowed over a ground hornet nest" story, they're too common here. I have a friend who's young son actually fell into one, one leg all the way up to the groin got stuck in the nest... he ended up in the ICU, and now has life-long sensitivity to stings and other irritants.
Yeah, I have some stories too, but I also had a buddy that was stuck down in a well cavity that was sent to ICU, and now carries an EPI pen everywhere he goes...Funny, well not funny, ironically, I have a huge yellow jacket nest that is going to be eradicated tonight or tomorrow. Luckily, I hit it with my enclosed cab 5075EI see a lot of people writing about having to manually move the mower around to get the 3-point links onto the pins. But if your mower is too heavy to just shove around, it's pretty easy to move it using your top link.
Even before I had all the iMatch quick hitch and hydraulic top link crap, I would just manage heavier implements by connecting the old turnbuckle top link first, and then using that to move the implement toward one lower link, and then the other.
Archemedes had the right idea, maybe because he was old.
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Everyone around here has a "I mowed over a ground hornet nest" story, they're too common here. I have a friend who's young son actually fell into one, one leg all the way up to the groin got stuck in the nest... he ended up in the ICU, and now has life-long sensitivity to stings and other irritants.
I DESPISE hooking up my RCR1260 60” “bush hog”. Have Quik Hitch. My cutter has the telescoping drive shaft, and the push button on the female part that slides onto the tractor’s PTO male shaft. And it’s getting even harder. I’m 70 now, and have had several surgeries, but can still do a few hours of hard work, and carry a 50lb bag. Pretty good grip per my Dr. — MY PROBLEM is that it’s extremely difficult pressing the x!!x&”!x button in and trying to line up and push the x!&xx!!x hog’s coupler onto the tractor’s splined shaft,,,, as if it’s tolerances are too close. (Yep, it’s greased). Occasionally it slides right on smoothly, like butter. WTH ? But it’s usually a sweating, cussing horrible frustrating 15 minute session. It’s so bad that for the last 2 years I’ve been paying a guy $200 to mow my 2 acre field w his big 25 hp zero turn.
