turning with implements on the ground

[MikeA57]

I was searching today for drawbars and stabilizers and I came across a series of web pages that explained using drawbars, 3 point hitches and implements safely. I started reading just to see if there were any tips I could pick up. On one of the pages, it mentioned that you shouldn't make a turn with an implement in or on the ground. I guess I could understand this if it was a disc, or tiller, harrow or something like that, but what about a finish mower or bushhog? That's the first time I've ever heard that but it doesn't seem to make a lot sense to me. Does that same thing go for mowers?

Here's a link to the webpage I saw that on:http://www.nstmop.psu.edu/tasksheets/5.3%20Using%203-Point%20Hitch%20Implements.pdf It's on the 3rd page, last point in the middle row.

Mike

 

[BigD23]

Mike, part of the mowing with my bushog are 90 degree turns with the mower on the ground...Not sure what they mean by.....don't.

Don

 

[CCWKen]

That's for ground engaging implements. For floating or wheeled implements like cutters, it's not necessary. Be sure to have your sway chains/bars in place though or you could bend a lift arm.

The article also states to raise the implement during transport. How are you going to do that with a manure spreader or trailer?

 

[Deadman]

When i cut with my LX4 Flail mower, I mow at 1 inch height, and that makes the skid shoes ride on the sod. if I turn when the skids are down on the ground, then it sometimes digs in and rips a bunch of sod out, and likely strains the whole mower, because its twisting it. I try to just lift it off the ground, so its only on the rear wheel, and it turns perfect.

 

[gauthier]

Well,if you didn't turn when brush hogging you would run into something.

 

[beenthere]

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The article also states to raise the implement during transport. How are you going to do that with a manure spreader or trailer?

I'd guess they are not classed as implements on the 3ph, or ground-engaging.

 

[TGF]

I turn all the time with my rotary cutter, I assumed that's why it had a swivel wheel on the back.

 

[3RRL]

I think you can turn with some ground engaging implements if you use your head.
I don't know about a plow or disc or tiller. Although I have made turns with the tiller because I have some rows that are curved. A brush hog is OK, which has the swiveling wheel(s) made so you can turn. But then it's not really "ground engaging".
For sure, don't turn with a sub-soiler or box blade with scarifiers (rippers) down, engaged in the soil. This is because the rippers are a lot weaker taking side-ways force, like through a turn, and they will bend or break. Don't ask how I know this. Turning with the box blade full of dirt (rippers NOT down) is OK. I do that all the time.
Rob-

 

[CCWKen]

I'd guess they are not classed as implements on the 3ph, or ground-engaging.

That's right but the article didn't differentiate implement attachment. Wasn't that was the whole point of this discussion?

 

[beenthere]

That's right but the article didn't differentiate implement attachment. Wasn't that was the whole point of this discussion?

Not to belabor the point, but the article had to do with 3 ph attachments (as I read it), so it did differentiate attachment.