Bad things hit while bush hogging?

[LBrown59]

Rocks seems to make a heck of a bunch of noise as they are being reduced to rubble. The worst thing I hit was a fence...That I had just installed a couple months before Took out a 4" wood post then proceded rip the high tensel steel wire off of the other posts. This didn't impress the wife at all.

Why not: what does it take to impress her anyway?

 

[Farmwithjunk]

I got a new one which was a basketball. I listed the other crazy stuff I have hit and this is the one that scared the heck out of me. The noise is just terrifying.

Oh yeah! I hit a football buried in the weeds last fall. Sounded like an atomic bomb!

 

[SailorBob]

An armadillo. Talk about a racket. Scared me good. Bush hog won though.

 

[TerryJ]

Oh yeah! I hit a football buried in the weeds last fall. Sounded like an atomic bomb!

I was just going to list that one. Man, those things do make a boom!!!

 

[Heavyduty]

I ain't never hit a basketball that busted, they always go about 300 feet toward 100K houses.

 

[shughes]

For me the weirdiest one was a golfball.....made about 300 (or so it seemed trips round and round under the bushhog before it came out....with great force out the back....was still gaining altitude last I saw it...........those things make a heck of a racket under a bushhogg...trust me!

 

[Marshal9]

I whacked the on/off handle of an old gas and oil well that had not been tended to until after the incident. The gas company now keeps the area cleared.

 

[sld]

I had a 33 lb front suitcase weight fall off and I ran right over it.

The bush hog immediately started leaking oil but the gear box seems fine. I parked it and haven't used it since. It was always a little too heavy for my little tractor so I bought a smaller KK hog.

Now I keep a sharp eye out as much as possible.

 

[Ryan03]

The worst thing I ever hit with the brush hog was the draw bar off of my tractor. I was brushhogging around the FIL's lake, when all of a sudden I felt a huge crash that resonated through the entire tractor, accompanied by a thunderous bang. The retaining pin had fallen out of my drawbar, and it slid out of the mount, under the front of the brush hog, and caught the cutter bar on the hog, unfortunately, the other end was still in the mount, which was ripped in half by the drawbar. No damage to the tractor case though THANK GOD.

I still have the draw bar that is now bent in a 2 inch arc, I will post a pic of it tomorrow.

Ryan.

 

[JayDavis]

Ummm, a few hundred feet of that thick guage electric fence wire. Why it is always over 100F outside when you get stuff wrapped up in a shredder?

A skunk, and I DID shred that bad boy up.

T-post laying in the grass. Not much fuss, one loud bang and then a 3ft long missle arcing towards the horizon.

6" Pump hose. That stuff is tough, and heavy. It didn't cut but wadded up and stalled a 160hp tractor pulling a 15ft batwing before I knew what happened

Cow skull, that makes a lot of racket AND shrapnel

A trailer holding several bee boxes. One of the wings clipped the corner and jerked the trailer sideways. Talk about day becoming night. The sky was black, I was scared and I was in a cab tractor.

Huge ruts... I can tell you how many times I'll be cruising along on smooth ground and all the sudden, I'm eating steering wheel and the shredder is eating dirt cause a bull decided to dig a hole to China.

A playboy magazine.... I did this last Saturday. I was cutting the side of the road, and all of a sudden, a dull "thunk" sound followed by confetti....nude girl confetti...

A traffic cone... these things make a lot of noise and just one can be used to seemingly turn a 1000sq ft of ground bright orange with the debris.

My own hydraulic hose... the wing shaft got this one, must have been rubbing on the deck lift cylinder hose for a while. When it wore through, instant spray of hyd fluid everywhere.. Also had a hyd hose going to the front mounted cooler rupture. Sprayed into the fan roatating at PTO speed..... that equals about 5 gallons of oil sprayed back onto the engine and the front glass and steps... and... well pretty much everything.