hey everybody sam here and welcome back to our channel in today's video i have a farm
fix a field fix and a modification of this earthquake outdoors acreage rough cut mower
that really takes it from good to awesome let's go
so i've been using this brush mower for i think about three work days so far
and there is an obvious flaw with how it co-mingles with my four-wheeler i
won't say it's a design flaw of the mower itself because it probably is better for other equipment
but for us our atv and how things are it is frustrating to say the least
so
what happened here is the brush mower ran into this tree oh well i pulled it into the tree and it
hit that triangle piece in front of the wheel and instead of being able to hold everything together
and let it kind of pop over and keep going the actual hitch part that hooks to the four-wheeler
has a pin going through it it pulled so hard that kind of splayed it open pop the cotter pin
off it's gone but i have extra so i need to kind of bend that bracket back together close it up
and put another pin in place and just be a lot more careful as i'm pulling this thing around
this part here this little piece that goes over the hitch that's what's played open and honestly
the second time this has happened i don't know if they make a hitch adapter to hook it onto a
ball hitch but i would much prefer one of those at this point because i'm going through cotter pins
quicker than i'd like i have extras but they're not cheap so i don't like to lose
them here in the field but we've got to keep doing the job so keep using the stuff
all right third time's a charm i hope
so
that's the first time that thing has popped off my cotter pin
i'm done for today it's getting frustrated and i'm out of cotter pins
so we'll go turn it off see if i can strap it to the four wheel or take it back
put it up for the evening at least with this one the pin and the clips attached so
i don't know what the deal is but i'm done
so
uh
so
and just like that with a cheap ball hitch from harbor freight
two grade eight bolts handful of washers and nuts we have converted this earthquake brush cut mower
from a hitch pin style setup to a ball hitch this is going to be wonderful for allowing us to
quickly connect and disconnect not only the mower to our four wheeler but also our utility trailer
our seed spreader any other kind of stuff we have most of all that stuff has a ball hitch on it
so now the earthquake can play nicely get along and be a lot less hassle and headache
on us to swap out it was very important to me to be able to attach this and convert it
without destroying the mower's original design i never know what the future may hold i never know
what was going to come down the road so i didn't want to destroy that black adjustable hitch piece
i think it did pretty good i ended up only having to drill one hole right here through the frame and
then this one is a little sloppy if it gets crazy it can move but i think it's going to be fine it's
more of a clamping action than a lock it in place the amount of distance that this bolt could travel
is not going to affect the performance or the path of the mower if it went to the left i'm
really not going to be able to tell it so i'm not worried about that at all and being grade 8 bolts
these things should not be the weak link in this system so theories and looks and giggles aside
it's time to put this on the mower and actually see how it handles and performs
well it looks good back there i'm gonna run this through the field at some pretty high speeds
faster than what i would mow with i just want to see if this thing pops off or not let's go
so good so far cool
i've been out here running this trail mower around for about 30 minutes going very very
fast much faster than i ever would when i'm cutting the engine has been off so i've not been
trying to cut and run but i've been putting this thing through its paces with that new ball hitch
and if i look pink it's because i've been tickled pink that is awesome hands down the best upgrade
we could have done for this mower our atv setup and it just makes it more functional to make
it more versatile and really get rid of what was for me the number one frustration point with this
mower which was the hitch pin setup i'm probably being a lot rougher on this mower than the average
person might be but it's also the kind of life this thing's going to live out here on our farm
so it's kind of got to hold up and we might as well put it through those hurdles
fix what we can and learn the limitations early on before we think that this is terminator on
wheels if you have any questions on any of this stuff the mower the atv everything in general
leave them for us down below otherwise take care and we'll see you guys next time on the homestead
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