Bush Hog

[ROUSTABOUT]

My Crescent wrench is adjustable.

Please tell me you have a standard crescent and a metric crescent.

My old crescent says 12 inch. My new one says so many millimeters. So I have one for both situations. I can work on American and foreign.

 

[LD48750]

Please tell me you have a standard crescent and a metric crescent.

My old crescent says 12 inch. My new one says so many millimeters. So I have one for both situations. I can work on American and foreign.

I have the smaller metric 200mm wrench.

 

[Hay Dude]

I dislike it when someone says they are "filming" when they are using a video process and when they say they are videotaping when they are using the cell phone on a camera (that obviously doesn't have any tape in it at all).
I also despise the media when they talk about "U.S. fighter jets" when the last U.S. propeller driven fighter in was retired in 1957.
Then there's TV crime shows that the civilian characters say they are "checking the military DNA database" or have "checked the military records" of a suspect. Sorry folks - that's illegal.
And don't get me started when the new McGyver uses a handheld Motorola radio with an omni-directional antenna to jam a satellite that's 23000 miles up in orbit.....
But hey......
I keep it to myself.
Most of the time.
BTW. I have a King Kutter bush hog.

Not a “fighter” jet, but the Marines & Navy were using the propeller powered A-1D Skyraider as late as the early 1970’s in Vietnam, with good success.
What an amazing aircraft.

Watch this video of some Skyraiders take out Vietnamese fuel facilities. These single engine propeller aircraft could carry as much ordinance as a 4-engine B-17.

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

I have the smaller metric 200mm wrench.

I try to always keep a crescent in the John Deere Bobcat, especially when I'm using the Bush Hog on it.

 

[workinonit]

Some companies are very sensitive about it. I've read author's guidelines that warned authors to use the term "facial tissue," or "Kleenex Brand Facial Tissue," instead of just "Kleenex," to avoid getting sued.

Several years ago, a local coffee house owner named his place "Federal Espresso." Fedex got wind of it, sued for trademark infringement, and won. Then the coffee house name was changed to "Ex-Federal Espresso." Fedex didn't let that fly, either.

My first name is Tom. When my brother Jerry and I created a partnership to run the farm, we briefly thought of calling it "Tom & Jerry's Farm." We decided against it, because we've heard how zealously Disney, the current owner of Hanna-Barbara, guards their trademarks.

I call my farm GE. Just because I can.

 

[Williy]

My Crescent wrench is left handed!

I also have a right handed pipe wrench!

My woods brush hog is black!

One crescent wrench is 4 inch and the other
is 18 inch and stupid they can't tell the difference
between inch or metric

willy

 

[IndyJay]

Please tell me you have a standard crescent and a metric crescent.

My old crescent says 12 inch. My new one says so many millimeters. So I have one for both situations. I can work on American and foreign.

I absolutely do. On one side it has Metric opening size and on the other it has Inches.
I made sure of that before I bought the set.

Have you ever heard of a left handed hammer? Don't laugh. My Dad was a lefty and when someone would ask to borrow his hammer he would warn them that it was a left handed hammer. They just laughed and took it with them. When they brought it back they were cursing that wretched hammer. It seems years of use had developed a distinct wear pattern on the head from angle and trajectory of a left handed person. I can attest that I could never drive a nail or drive a punch using one of his hammers. I still have them and enjoy watching someone trying to use them for the first time. It is funny watching nails go flying across the room... "dang, don't you know how to use a hammer"?

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

I absolutely do. On one side it has Metric opening size and on the other it has Inches.
I made sure of that before I bought the set.

Have you ever heard of a left handed hammer? Don't laugh. My Dad was a lefty and when someone would ask to borrow his hammer he would warn them that it was a left handed hammer. They just laughed and took it with them. When they brought it back they were cursing that wretched hammer. It seems years of use had developed a distinct wear pattern on the head from angle and trajectory of a left handed person. I can attest that I could never drive a nail or drive a punch using one of his hammers. I still have them and enjoy watching someone trying to use them for the first time. It is funny watching nails go flying across the room... "dang, don't you know how to use a hammer"?

I did have two left handed crescent wrenches. Screw for jaws worked left handed. I'm LH as well as dad. Brother is strictly RH. I'm okay with either pretty much. At least I'm better off handed than a RH person is, generally.

 

[IndyJay]

I did have two left handed crescent wrenches. Screw for jaws worked left handed. I'm LH as well as dad. Brother is strictly RH. I'm okay with either pretty much. At least I'm better off handed than a RH person is, generally.

Yep, you are better suited to use either whereas a right-hander will usually struggle with a left handed tool. I have noticed recently that many battery operated circular saws are "backward" or better suited for left-handed use. You probably haven't noticed that, have you?

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

Yep, you are better suited to use either whereas a right-hander will usually struggle with a left handed tool. I have noticed recently that many battery operated circular saws are "backward" or better suited for left-handed use. You probably haven't noticed that, have you?

Oh yes, they seem backwards to me too. The old worm gear drive saws were LH also. I'm fine with a RH saw. But I do like a LH too when I'm cutting hip and valley rafter seat cuts. A left saw works great on one side of a hip/valley. I finally found a Porter Cable LH saw. I have two worm drives but I have to use blades with a diamond center knockout to bolt onto saw.

 

[Hay Dude]

Oh yes, they seem backwards to me too. The old worm gear drive saws were LH also. I'm fine with a RH saw. But I do like a LH too when I'm cutting hip and valley rafter seat cuts. A left saw works great on one side of a hip/valley. I finally found a Porter Cable LH saw. I have two worm drives but I have to use blades with a diamond center knockout to bolt onto saw.

I love my worm drive saws. Just replaced my skil 8&1/2” with a Milwaukee 8&1/2”. Even have the DeWalt 60V worm drive.
Cut 4’ sheets of plywood from one side.

 

[Smokeydog]

RH or LH Bush Hog? CCW rotation mow better CCW around the field? My cutter doesn’t get offended by calling it a Bush Hog, says it right on the side and hog emblem cast in gearbox.

 

[Xfaxman]

RH or LH Bush Hog?

Yes, both.

CCW rotation mow better CCW around the field?

Blades are sharpened on both edges:

The hydraulic motor can turn it CW or CCW:

 

[Elton67]

I know I'm being picky but I have an issue with folks calling a rotary mower a Bush Hog. Bush Hog is a brand name just as John Deere, Ford, Dodge, etc.
Home - Bush Hog This is the Bush Hog website note they even call them rotary cutters. I know it may be a hard habit to break but could we learn to call them rotary cutters unless of course you are referring to the Bush Hog brand.

Brush hog, rotary cutter, meh.

i call them brush hogs because thats what they do, and they are very effective at it. they can tear down whole fields of brush. some of the tougher models can take down 5" trees! brush hog seems like the perfect name
"rotary cutter" just means a blade moving in a circle cutting something. that could just mean a regular mower, or even a food processor for the matter.
do you call a kleenex a paper tissue? a frigidaire a cooling box?

 

[IndyJay]

So now we have come to worrying about using the wrong pronouns for inanimate objects?

 

[Elton67]

So now we have come to worrying about using the wrong pronouns for inanimate objects?

my 6' bushhog identifies as they/them.
not to get too into it but pronouns and proper names are different lol.

 

[Williy]

I think that if you went to a dealer and asked
for a rotary cutter he might ask you what kind
of a finish mower do you want????
You ask for a brush hog they know exactly what
you want!

willy

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I think that if you went to a dealer and asked
for a rotary cutter he might ask you what kind
of a finish mower do you want????
You ask for a brush hog they know exactly what
you want!

willy

Maybe in hillbillyville, but not around here. Around here, they are called what the mfg's call them, "rotary cutters".

Just as finish mowers are called just what the mfg's call them, "finish mowers"...

SR

 

[neverfailyou]

After reading 18 pages of posts (channel locks, Vice grips, skill saw etc ) my input is:
Am I the only one who calls Diagonal or straight side cutter pliers “dikes”?

 

[OzarkChris]

After reading 18 pages of posts (channel locks, Vice grips, skill saw etc ) my input is:
Am I the only one who calls Diagonal or straight side cutter pliers “dikes”?

I think they've been renamed to Non-Binary, but who knows these days!