On Saturday, November 15, 2014 2:39:27 PM UTC-6, Terry Coombs wrote:
I actually have very little use for a lawn mower , what little "lawn" I
have is fairly weasily controlled with a weedeater . What I REALLY need is a
bush hog , since much of what I'll be cutting will probably include small
trees and such . I'm wondering if there's any reason I shouldn't fabricate a
set of bush hog hubs/blades to replace the one-piece blades that I now have
. I realize there will be more load on the bearings/hubs/deck from shock
loads , but they all need repair anyway and there's no reason I can't beef
up the structure while I'm at it . And hey , it should still cut grass
pretty well too .

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All the bushhogs I have had were eqquipted with "stump jumpers" Basically a heavy flywheel with two short blades mounted on the perimiter so that centrifugal force swings them out. They are free to swing back when they hit something like a stump that would tear up a single blade on a shaft. In my expierence, the heavier the better is the word on bushhogs. Deck needs to be heavy, as does the gearbox and stumpjumper