Pond bank mower

[wickedinhere]

I have been trying to figure a way to mow my pond banks instead of using a string trimmer. I was thinking of buying a push mower and hook a chain at all 4 corners then hook all the chains to one eye hook. I would then attach a 12 foot 4x4 to the fel bucket and attach the mower to the end of the 4x4 using the chains. I would lower and raise the mower as needed and if i hit something the chains would give. The reason for wanting to do this is that my pond banks have some erosion spots that make it hard to mow or trim and i could just drop the mower right on top of the hard to reach spots. I know it sounds dangerous and crazy but it just might work any suggestions. Please no ugly comments!

 

[bx24]

Ideally, it would be nice if you could rig up a hydraulic cutter but your tractor only flows 4-6 gpm and I don't think you could get a motor that would work.

I think your idea would work, but I would worry about the motor smoking itself with all of the oil always leaning on the one side. If you have an old mower ... what have you got to lose

 

[zac]

in our town they use flail mowers, but these mowers are like bckhoes except on the side and there mowers, really cool, probably real expensive.

 

[toy]

I have been trying to figure a way to mow my pond banks instead of using a string trimmer. I was thinking of buying a push mower and hook a chain at all 4 corners then hook all the chains to one eye hook. I would then attach a 12 foot 4x4 to the fel bucket and attach the mower to the end of the 4x4 using the chains. I would lower and raise the mower as needed and if i hit something the chains would give. The reason for wanting to do this is that my pond banks have some erosion spots that make it hard to mow or trim and i could just drop the mower right on top of the hard to reach spots. I know it sounds dangerous and crazy but it just might work any suggestions. Please no ugly comments!

Now I'm not going to say anything about your looks especially since I have never met you, but I would like to tell you about them clearing the power line rightaway recently in my area, they had a bar with about 10 or 11 saw blades on it hanging down from a helicopter. It did a real good job, my electric was out for about 8 hours and phones were out for several days. When they did it near moms house the electric was off about 8 hours or longer for about 3 or 4 days. When the electric went off at moms my son and I were changing out her commode and replacing it with a high rise one for handicapped people[she had a hip replacment and the doctor said that she needed a high rise one]. We had to use lanterns to do the change out. When I went down the next day to check it out for leaks everything was as dry as could be [no leaks].Made me feel like I was back in the semi old days when we waded knee deep snow 2 miles to school. My son and I had a good day together something that we will always remember. Enough rambling on back to the subject, that thing that they were using was awsome to watch. We could see the bottom of the helicopter pilots shoe as he leaned out of the helicopter watching his progress.

 

[toy]

I have been trying to figure a way to mow my pond banks instead of using a string trimmer. I was thinking of buying a push mower and hook a chain at all 4 corners then hook all the chains to one eye hook. I would then attach a 12 foot 4x4 to the fel bucket and attach the mower to the end of the 4x4 using the chains. I would lower and raise the mower as needed and if i hit something the chains would give. The reason for wanting to do this is that my pond banks have some erosion spots that make it hard to mow or trim and i could just drop the mower right on top of the hard to reach spots. I know it sounds dangerous and crazy but it just might work any suggestions. Please no ugly comments!

Just remembered someone a while back on the power trac forum built a bank mower using a lawn mower deck mounted on a boom . maybe you could do a search there and get some good ideas. his seemed to work real good. No harm intended in my other post to you, I beleive there are some really good people on these tractor by net forums and would not want to offend no one.

 

[wickedinhere]

Nice story toy, i like a joke as good as anyone i might be fat but not ugly.LOL
I am gonna buy one of those 99 dollar push mowers and try to see what i can do
with it. The mower wont be at much of an angle so hopefully the oil wont be a problem.

 

[jimgerken]

If you can predict which way it will tilt most often, build the contraption so the spark plug side of the engine (vertical shaft engine, spark plug usually faces forward on the deck) is up, when its tilted to work. This will work OK. The other way, you'd have oil up against the bottom of the piston, and I don't think it would stay together long with that condition.

 

[zac]

what about an offset sickle bar?

 

[alchemysa]

what about an offset sickle bar?

How about a hedgetrimmer mounted on a pole, with a side-ways mounted wheel or skid at the bottom end so you can sweep from side to side. Can you get electricity to the site? Electric trimmers are lightweight and cheap. Don't know how long they'd last but i guess that depends on how big an area you have. 'Dabbing' with a petrol mower sounds awfuly slow and tedious.

 

[Renze]

The mower wont be at much of an angle so hopefully the oil wont be a problem.

I know guys in England that overfill their tractor engines to make sure the oil pressure doesnt drop when topping pastures at extreme slopes.