Good video! This mower will dress up your fields along the highways and embankments. I like/appreciate a well groomed farm and am impressed when farmers/landowners take the time to do this additional work. Time well worthwhile spent, good job!
I was born and raised in Selma, Alabama (home of Bush Hog) and have always been a "Bush Hog" guy, but I've got to admit, that Rhino gear looks tough! You guys will have fun with that! I'll watch and see how she holds up. Lot of stress points!
By the way for the people scrolling in the comments right now, that thing isn't just a mower. It's called a Bush Hog. A Bush Hog is a special type of mower. Its designed to mow away bushes from an area that your mowing to make a new field or your mowing for silage. Your welcome, for the people who was wondering what that is called specifically.
Saw you at the farm Machinery show today. Sorry I didn't say much I was really nervous. You probably don't remember me. I had a black coat on with a black flatbill hat. It was an honor meeting you though
The local conservancy district uses Alamo boom mowers for the irrigation ditch banks. The Alamo mowers use hydraulic motors and the booms are fully articulated so the operator can reach down into the ditches and mow to the water level.
Nice... can't say I'm a big fan of their "stump jumper" design (looks more like a "stump beater" to me-- used to be that the stump jumpers were ROUND til they got cheap on materials and started making them oval, now just a cast bar with angled edges... ) My brother ran one of those for the county for the last 10 years or so... Well, not that particular one-- they actually built their own in-house, slope mowers with an extendable boom that would reach out about 10-15 feet, with a four-foot shredder "bonnet" on it with a large hydraulic motor on it spinning the blades, and four crazy wheels, one on each corner... you can reach over fences and water gates to mow, out over and into water in flooded drainage creeks, etc. They had to run on the slope and reach out over the bottoms which were usually too wet or flooded for the batwings to get... His was mounted on a Deere open station FWA tractor with a 3 sided metal mesh cage to keep the flying bits off the operator. A couple years ago he got a new cab Deere tractor that they mounted the slope mower on. All those years of operating a tractor at about a 45 degree angle downhill to the right side started giving him back problems, so he transferred recently into the shop as the partsman... All those years and he only tipped the tractor up on its side twice... I have some pictures of it... he never actually rolled the tractor over... you can "catch yourself" with the bonnet if you know what you're doing and don't let it get too far over... Be careful-- when they're up in the air they'll throw big chunks of crap VERY HARD and VERY FAR... Later! OL J R :)
Ryan if you ever get the chance you should check out the hardee mfg. Sliding ditch bank mowers, and long arm mowers. We have used both for the past 20 years on our farm in eastern nc.
Great video !! Notice from the way the unit was moving some sway. Do you need tighter sway blocks on the lift arms ? I can see this unit as a great way to keep drain swales and fence lines cleaner and brush free and it would be a boon to keeping multi-flora rose in check if you have it. But I suspect there's a downside for small game, birds and such that normal live in those areas .
Looks like a nice mower. an cheep in price or reasonable. Would by one. Did not know they made such a thing. More land to farm next year with out rent. I always run the disk right up to the fence if I can. Thanks for the show. By the Dells rent is from Fifty to 250 an acre. Sand to bottom land . Thanks for the show
We used to use the 3 point sicklebar pitmanless mower for that sort of thing... LOL:) Course it wouldn't handle brush, but if you kept it clipped the brush never got big enough to give the sickle problems... Later! OL J R :)
Be interesting to see how long it lasts as seems to be a lot of flex with that large unit on the end of what looks like a smallish arm. Also doesn’t float as well as I thought it would , maybe wheels need adjusting ?.
Seen a couple different styles of those now. Seems to really tear up small trees and bushes pretty well. When you reach or extend all the way out does it makes the tractor feel tippy?
We live pretty much right on the corner of our county and they do either a terrible job or no job on our dirt roads and don’t do great on keeping our barditches mowed so I mow a lot of barditches in the summer
sure it has a trippin if you hit something hard, but what i see in the video i would be very concered about how that boom flexing back and forth metal fatigue in time to come i am sure, its like a boom the made for tree planting the boon was doing the same thing, it was not even a summer old and i was welding the boom back on
That'll definitely help to beat back the brush on your farms. After using that thing, you'll be singing along to Tom Petty. "Into the great wide open, under the skies of blue..."
Sort of looks like you need to adjust the lift arms and get the wheels tracking straighter with the tractor. Might eliminate a lot of stress on the breakaway.
i know its still new to you but looks like you need to lower the gauge wheels on it some so it will walk with you and your not jerking it around. Looks like a neat mower as well
Hey man me and my freind Noah were just at the farm machinery show yesturday we were the ones who kept coming back you signed noahs shirt hat and took a picture with him.
Hey Ryan are you still coming to the national farm machinery show in Louisville this weekend? I will be there Friday. If you come bring me a hoodie and a never stop farming bracelet. I would love to buy some from you. Maybe even lunch if you have time. PM me if your interested.
If the county/state does the mowing there like they do here, there is a LOT that they don't mow. Or they may cut it once a year and leave it the rest of the time so it looks like crap. And if a tree or shrub grows, they won't cut those down.
How Farms Work thanks for the explanation it was hard to tell that on the video ik rhino makes good equipment looks like it will be another useful tool around the farm
