Home made brush hog.

Discussion in 'Off-Topic' started by pooleo, Jun 29, 2012.

  1. pooleo

    pooleo New Member

    Some of you might find some intrest in this. I built this machine to cut the mother inlaws 1 acre orchard. My first idea was an offset tow behind to cut down on time. Almost a 9' cutting path. I quickly found that in order to cut the usually 1' weeds of the field, I would need to open the front up. The deck folds the weeds over and the blades wont cut it. By having the bend above the blades, everything gets cut.


    If you follow the pics you will see that there was alot of redesign and having to go much bigger! The wheels...FAIL! And the first go around of the pulling arm completely ripped off. So I installed a tractor 3-point hitch bar....WIN!

    On to the pics!

    This is what it looked like in my head......:thumbup:

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    AT THIS POINT, MY WELDER STARTED OVERHEATING. SO I TOOK A MINUTE TO INSTALL A FAN! ITS A DUCT FAN, LOL

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    Win! Altho the wife was not happy about working on the washer :furious: :thumbsup:


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  3. Hooligan

    Hooligan Rangerholic!!

    Holy christ.... all you need now is a remote control for it! Thats alot of work man
     
  4. Taylor

    Taylor Roman 1:16

    Flux core.
     
  5. edgeman4.0

    edgeman4.0 2nd amendment activist

    And you don't have a job why? That's actually decent hill billy fab work... you can obviously lay a decent bead with a welder.
     
  6. Muscleford

    Muscleford Drives "the Fridge"

    You have good fab skills and good creativity.
     
  7. 2004xlmiller

    2004xlmiller Member

    we have a build thread for a lawnmower.... on a ranger forum..
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  8. Hooligan

    Hooligan Rangerholic!!

    Like I said before, its cool man.....I think its great work and the member is proud of it. Again, if you think its bad, look at my firewood thread, yes there is a firewood thread in a ranger forum lol
     
  9. SalRanger2

    SalRanger2 Ranger Lover

    thats awesome Jason!!
     
  10. hazard-maine

    hazard-maine northern ranger driver

    that is some great red neck engineering
     
  11. OP
    pooleo

    pooleo New Member

    Necessity is the mother of all invention. Yeah, its put together. But hey, it does the job it is designed for. And I did not have to spend 2k for a store built model.


    fwiw, total cost on this build. ~$150

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  12. OP
    pooleo

    pooleo New Member


    LMAO! Owned by the sensor :thumbsup:
     
  13. RoadRanger

    RoadRanger -Skylark65-

    return of the supermower, awsome man. do you still have it?
     
  14. buggman

    buggman Do not touch the trim!

    HA!
    Redneck engineering at it's finest.

    Heck, I would have made 2 of them & put one on each side of the mower. :thumbup:
     
  15. OP
    pooleo

    pooleo New Member

    hell yeah I still have it :thumbsup:

    I will get some more recent pics up soon. And hopefully a vid of it in action :thumbup1:
     
  16. RoadRanger

    RoadRanger -Skylark65-

    cool, i don't know why but i thought you traded it for something? :huh: good to hear it's still around!
     

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