draw bar mounted brush hog

You will probably see a lot more 3 point hitch 4 footers but here is one for ya.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Woods-Model-48-Billy-Goat-4-Rotary-Mower-48-Bush-Hog-Towed-Model-Bushhog-/150824778624?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item231ddb7b80

Tucker, the mower I am talking about looks different than that one. The one I have seen hooks up at two points on both sides of the draw bar. Kind of like to trailer hitches on one trailer.

The one I have seen looks more like a two point.

Its possible. It sure looks original but anything is possible. I have a pic I can email someone to post on here because I don't know how to post pics on here.

Picture emailed

I figure it's shop-built, but I kinda like the idea. Recon the hydraulics would lift it if you put a rod from either side of the rockshaft down to the deck? Imagine you would have to put some weight out front of the tractor, but it might work.

Hmm!  A semi-mounted bush-bob...  If you used lift links from the rockshaft with a cultivator depth crank to set the cut height, and a remote cylinder to lift the back via a 2-way plow valve, that would be a neat little rig!

The way it seems to hook on is with two trailer hitch set ups. What would everyone be willing to gamble on this?

they look like bends are bends up to me. My deer blind trailer (an old folding trailer) has the same bends in the same places

those are interesting, they look like they are incorperated into the bar. I would love to see more close ups of this set up.

definatly

I would say that someone took the tongues from two small trailers or car dollies, removed the existing trailer hitch from a Bush hog flail mower, and installed them in it's place. They then removed part of the existing axle from the mower, welded on the rear "box", then put the swivel casters on there. Geometry is all wrong on the casters. They wouldnt swivel right with the mower raised much higher than it is now.

It could be reworked with a different frame for larger casters, and would be pretty nice. Would still want a way to raise and lower it with the tractor hydraulics.

I just inherited a 1939 Allis-Chalmers Model B and would love to get a rotary cutter to spread my 6 acres of Coastal Bermuda here in Central TX... but all I'm finding are rotary cutters for tractors with a 3 point hitch.  What's the best path for me to take:  keep looking for a rotary cutter that will work with my drawbar (and 560rpm PTO) or add a 3 point hitch conversion? Regardless of which option you think is best, can someone point me in the right direction on where to get one?

The ball mounts look like from a one wheeled trailer from teh 50 s ????

txharnish wrote: I just inherited a 1939 Allis-Chalmers Model B and would love to get a rotary cutter to spread my 6 acres of Coastal Bermuda here in Central TX... but all I'm finding are rotary cutters for tractors with a 3 point hitch.  What's the best path for me to take:  keep looking for a rotary cutter that will work with my drawbar (and 560rpm PTO) or add a 3 point hitch conversion? Regardless of which option you think is best, can someone point me in the right direction on where to get one?

John Deere used to make  small rotary cutters like that back in the early 1970s and there are probably a few of them still around.  They had a tongue that hooked to the drawbar and  it was lifted by the remote cylinder and two wheels on either side of the back of it.   We had one because we had a Massey Harris 44 which has the PTO high up on the back of the tractor above where the bottom of the top link hooks on making it utterly it useless for PTO driven three point implements.  

I think the one we had was either a 509 or 609.  It basically looked like this but was half as wide.

http://www.deere.com/en/cutters-shredders/rotary-cutters/hx10-rotary-cutter/


Edited by VAfarmboy - 04 Dec 2017 at 2:52am