DIY bush hog

[mellowcheddar]

Hey all...
Any thoughts on taking down some monster weeds short of bringing in a machete? I look conspicuously weird enough with the satchel and the traffic-light yellow ACE 250. Plus I don't think I could sweet-talk my way out of the back of the cop car if I got picked up for having a machete.
On a side note I am making baked beans and the Browns are winning! All is right with the world.
Cheers,
~mellowcheddar~

 

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[truckinbutch]

3' by 4' piece of 3/8 " plywood with rounded corners and a hand hole cut central along a long edge is easy to carry.Lay it down on weeds and step on it to mash them.Time consuming ,but less work than brush cutting.
Also works extremely well to herd pigs and fend off agressive dogs.

 

[mellowcheddar]

A chick with a metal detector and some plywood walks into a forest...

 

[hollowpointred]

short of burning (which i dont recommend) i dont know.

 

[deepskyal]

I'm making myself a second one this winter when its cold and I can hide out in the basement.

I bought an old $25 lawn mower, cheapie and light weight (thats important).

Use a sawz-all and cut out the front between the 2 front wheels, leaving about 2 inches of the blade exposed. You're pretty much just cutting a semicircle on the mower deck to expose the blades.

Equally important is to enlarge the side chute if it's too small. A lot of mowers have bigger discharge chutes...on the side...you dont want any rear discharge unit.

I've cut down full grown cat tails with it like they were grass...going slow and steady...without a single clog.

You just have to be darn careful of that exposed blade...never get in front of the thing for any reason. I'm sure it would wack someones leg pretty neatly.

The last mower I used, I beat the living daylights out of it for a couple years in high, marshy areas. Wacks down reed clusters when theyre wet. I think it only weighed 10 or 15 pounds and was about small enough to fit in most trunks with the handle sticking out.

Can be a dangerous set up...but works like nothing I ever used, short of a 5' brush hog on a tractor.

Al

 

[ZoSo71]

I have a 8x14 coil on the DFX.. It takes down the thickest brush..and children if they get too close

ZoSo

 

[mellowcheddar]

You just have to be darn careful of that exposed blade...never get in front of the thing for any reason. I'm sure it would wack someones leg pretty neatly.


... My husband the landscaper has got to see this thread

 

[N.J.THer]

How about a metal dirt rake?

By the way, does anyone else think it is disturbing that no matter what you are looking for an image of on google images there is usually a picture of a naked person with the item on the first or second page of images. Even posing with a metal rake....

NJ

 

[mellowcheddar]

Naked people? On GOOGLE? Surely you jest.

 

[baspinall]

Careful with the cheapie mowers. Ive had the blades snap on those. One went sailing into the back wall of my garage once!

Brian

 

[NGE]

Why not just use a good commercial grade weedwhacker with the brush cutting blade on it? .........NGE (T)

 

[mellowcheddar]

Gotta keep it on the down-low. Being sneaky has never been my forte.

 

[limitedthoughts]

How about instead of a machete get a sythe or a sickle .. im sure they will love you for that too. Just kiddin

LT.

 

[greydigger]

Put bicycle wheels on the back. It will roll better and you can raise and lower it.
Need a longer skirt for the sides and back tho - maybe old innertubes.
"DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. THESE ARE TRAINED PROFESSIONALS IN A CONTROLLED ENVOIRENMENT".

 

[elistepp]

 

[extractor]

How do ya all come up with this stuff? You guys are cooped up too long in the winter months.

 

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

Get a pet goat They will eat anything!

VPR

 

[bottlebum]

Get a pet goat They will eat anything!

VPR

I use a few of them.

 

[Dwight S]

True story... Many years ago my parents purchased a moble home near the beach that the front yard was completely overgrown. Needing a way to clear the growth, my father took an electric motor from a washing machine, 3/4" EMT conduit for a handle, two wheels off of a push mower, threaded rod for axles, drop cord connected to motor, and a circular saw blade. He strapped the motor to the EMT with large pipe straps, drilled a hole through the bottom of EMT for the threaded rod axle and wheels, and attached the blade to the pulley shaft on the motor. He wired it up with the drop cord. This thing was insane... Plug it in and stay clear of the blade, it is exposed! This thing would take down however big a weed or tree sapling you could get the blade to. Just walk up, turn it on and ZIIIIIIIP... No more weed. Needless to say it wasn't consumer safety or OSHA approved.

 

[greydigger]

"Git 'er Dun" ! yup