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    Default Any of you farm experts or others tell me how to get this sucker out

    Thought I was going to get a good day in bush hogging around Son in Law’s grown up pond. Had one small burp early and was making progress when at first I thought I lost a pin on the 3pt hitch and bush hog came loose

    After looking at it the attachment bolt on the bushhogg broke right where pin goes through. Did not have a big enough wrench so went to local hardware store and got what I needed and then to TS for the bolt and more of those clip pins

    This one has a flange on it instead of threaded on both ends and been on there so long I could not get bolt free. Even had SIL with big set of vice grips and no way to hold it . My dumb ass did not think to pick up can of PB blaster to see if that would help

    Finally gave up and unhooked tractor and put it up

    Only thing I can come up with is either a torch to heat it up or take a generator and side grinder and cut off


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    porta-band would be my tool of choice

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    A big a pipe wrench...but if you have access to a torch I’d cut it out


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    Side grinder with cutting wheel. Cut at the base and knock out the rest. Replace. It’ll be gone in 10 minutes.

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    Sounds like you have my kind of luck doing tractor work. I deal with stupid shit like that on the regular with my old equipment.

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    I'd have to shut my place down if I didn't have a side grinder.

    BTW, I recently made a discovery. If you are cutting hardware cloth, instead of using tin snips or any other hand tool, try the side grinder with a 1/16 cutoff wheel. It wisps through it like butter and cuts the spiky end wires off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palmetto Bug View Post
    I'd have to shut my place down if I didn't have a side grinder.

    BTW, I recently made a discovery. If you are cutting hardware cloth, instead of using tin snips or any other hand tool, try the side grinder with a 1/16 cutoff wheel. It wisps through it like butter and cuts the spiky end wires off.
    We have built THOUSANDS of hen houses for the Flyway Foundation this way. The very first workday, I saw folks cutting that 1x2" welded wire with side cutters. NOPE - not again. That was the last workday we did it that way. Side grinders and cutoff wheels have been used ever since.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Simple Man View Post
    We have built THOUSANDS of hen houses for the Flyway Foundation this way. The very first workday, I saw folks cutting that 1x2" welded wire with side cutters. NOPE - not again. That was the last workday we did it that way. Side grinders and cutoff wheels have been used ever since.
    Whatever happened to the hen house building days? Those were pretty enjoyable, wouldn't mind doing something like that again
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    2 pipe wrenches, your wife and daughter.

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    What's a Flyway Foundation and is there a vaccine?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glenn View Post
    What's a Flyway Foundation and is there a vaccine?
    Apparently a vaccine as it appears the FF has been eliminated. Very effective vaccine

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    Hit the sum bitch with a sledge hammer and quit making shit difficult.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Saltydog235 View Post
    Hit the sum bitch with a sledge hammer and quit making shit difficult.
    Pretty much what I was thinking. This ain’t rocket science.

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    I’ve moved things with an air hammer that nothing else would touch.. if you add heat with the air hammer and it doesn’t move just cut it out with the torch and try not to damage too much.
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    Generators are for power outages now.




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    looks to me that you shouldn't be allowed to operate that tractor
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    Indeed, yet I have killed no Jack Miners today, this month, or this season as our boy DHall has. I am more jealous of his awesome pig of a bird than everyone else combined.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dhall1693 View Post
    looks to me that you shouldn't be allowed to operate that tractor


    Quote Originally Posted by Quackhead22 View Post
    I’d like to know where those Lynch pins came from that are strong enough to break the hitch pin and not break themselves!


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    Shit happens I guess.

    Here is all i was cutting.. Been using tractors since I was 12-13. Never seen one of these break


    By way I was in first gear in low range

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    Quote Originally Posted by tprice View Post
    Here is all i was cutting.. Been using tractors since I was 12-13. Never seen one of these break
    Its not the breaking it I was referring to, it was the asking for help to make a grill cheese kind of fix. fify
    Quote Originally Posted by JABIII View Post
    Indeed, yet I have killed no Jack Miners today, this month, or this season as our boy DHall has. I am more jealous of his awesome pig of a bird than everyone else combined.

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    Shit happens I guess.

    Here is all i was cutting.. Been using tractors since I was 12-13. Never seen one of these break


    Shit....my tractor breaks those damn things on the regular. Breaks them more on the tractor than on the implement. Be riding along and then hear a crash and bush Hogg starts chewing dirt...clutch slipping. You cut the pto off look back and say fuck! You get off and the swing arm is bent around like a horseshoe and you say Gucci real loud. Cut it off and walk back to the house.

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    I’d like to know where those Lynch pins came from that are strong enough to break the hitch pin and not break themselves!


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