[AT] Adventures with shear pins

[David Rotigel]

Hi Dean, I think it would be the only honorable thing to do offer the 20 pieces back to the former owner.
	Dave

On Jul 24, 2014, at 10:20 PM, Dean Vinson <dean at vinsonfarm.net> wrote:

> I've given up brush hogging the scruffier areas of my new place until the
> summer growth dies down and I can do more effective walk-throughs.   Lots of
> hard old osage orange branches laying low in the grass, along with
> occasional bits of nasty junk like cinder blocks and old rusty tangles of
> woven-wire fence sections.   I've replaced the shear bolt on the mower quite
> a few times, and had to have somebody out to fix a flat rear tire on the 620
> after a heavy piece of wire--possibly from that mass of old fence
> wire--punctured it.   Time to stop beating up the equipment and wait until I
> can really clear all the obstructions out.
> 
> But the weather was spectacularly nice this evening, so after finishing up
> another chore I hooked the 620 back up to the mower and went out to the
> meadow by the orchard.   It had all been mowed last fall when I first
> visited this place and I walked around it several times back then, all very
> nice and trimmed, almost yard-like, so I was confident I wouldn't hit
> anything.    Spun up the brush hog, eased the clutch forward, and off I
> went...and then not two minutes later heard the mower suddenly hit
> something, followed by the "pop" of the shear bolt breaking and the sound of
> the mower coasting down, no longer being driven by the PTO.   #*^@! it, what
> the heck was down there?    
> 
> Turned out to be about 150 feet of very nice rubber garden hose, loosely
> coiled up in big easy ovals and spread over an area about four feet wide and
> eight feet long.   Still had water in it, or at least it did before that
> mower chopped it into about 20 pieces.   I hope the previous owner doesn't
> want it back...
> 
> Dean Vinson
> Saint Paris, Ohio
> 
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