Raised Bush Hog Makes Blade Sharpening Easy

Raised Bush Hog Makes Blade Sharpening Easy HAY & FORAGE HARVESTING Mowers 38 Gabriel Davidson Annandale Minn recently sent FARM SHOW photos of how he raises the deck on his 3-pt mounted 5-ft bush hog It lets him use a rotary grinder to quickly sharpen the blades “I disconnect the upper link arm from the tractor 3-pt and also disconnect the mower pto shaft Then I pin a clevis hitch onto the tractor drawbar and run a hitch pin through the mower’s upper link arm ” says Davidson “I hook a long chain onto the clevis then run it up and over the pin in the upper link arm and back toward the rear end of the deck where I hook it up to the frame ” Slowly raising the tractor’s 3-pt will lift the back end of the mower high enough to comfortably work on the blades “As a safety precaution I jam a 4 by 4 under the mower deck as well as a 55-gal barrel to prevent the deck from falling Placing a tractor seat cushion on a 5-gal pail provides a comfortable working position when sharpening the blades ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Gabriel Davidson P O Box 61 Annandale Minn 55302 ph 320 274-8133

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