I have a 1949 Bush Hog Model 12 rotary cutter that a friend gave to me 8 years ago. When I went to his house to get it, he was walking around behind his house. I asked him what he was looking for. He said, "Your bush hog!" We found it and dug it out. It had been sitting in that spot for so long that it almost sank out of sight! I took it home and took the old blades off. The cutting edges were so worn back that you couldn't have saved them with a mill press! And the old cast iron-looking drive shaft was broken into 5 pieces. A trip to tractor supply for new blades and a slip clutch drive shaft, and an adapter to fit the drive shaft to the input shaft on the cutter. A neighbor helped me change the blades and we agreed the bearings in the gearbox were okay, but it leaked the 90 wt gear oil out, so we packed it full of grease. Then I welded in a 3/16" patch panel on the back deck, sandblasted it, pressure washed it, and for fun I painted it flat black. I mow my back pasture, the 100 foot wide and 3/4 mile long pipeline on my hunting lease, the pasture at my son's house, and the occasional odd job for some pocket money. I just pump some grease into the gear box before I hook it up to the tractor. Great old piece of equipment that was literally forgotten about and sunk in a swampy spot for 12 years! Works good!
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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