How to Set Brush Hog Tail Wheels

hi this is mike with asktractormike.com and backup me is an 8 foot rotary cutter that it has a problem and and if you've got the same problem here's your symptoms your tractor when you're cutting with your brush hog will be worked really hard and you'll use a lot of fuel it'll do a pretty job of cutting but it really works everything to get through the field and if you have this problem it's a problem with your tail wheels these wheels on the back when your rotary cutter is headed uphill toward the tractor as this one is what you'll do is you'll cut the material throw it forward and then cut it again and just keep cutting it so if you've got that problem here's how you here's how you'll notice it you can look at this cutter and see it's got the problem when I've got it set at the height I want in the front the back is actually a little bit lower than the front and whoever set this up or whoever used it last didn't know what they were doing when setting the tail wheels now the first thing you need to set this right is your owners made and your owners manual on a lot of machines like this one you can download off the internet and to have it on a PDF file on your computer and when I looked at the owners manual on this cutter I found out that in fuel position normally you want it about 1 to 2 inches lower in the front than in the back and the reason for that is you want to let that material get cut and go out the back so we want to angle down well we know that the front part of the cutter rides on the lower link arms of the tractor on on a three-point cutter so that is set by the tractor where the back end sets is set by the tail wheels so what we're going to do we're going to figure out where we want to cut and I want to cut with this cutter about three and a half inches so I'm going to set the front at three and a half inches and then I want the back to be at four and a half to five and a half inches it's going to be real easy to set this cutter height wise because what I'm gonna do a two by four is actually three and a half inches wide a two by six is actually five and a half inches wide or round about that area so what I'm gonna do is put two by fours on there edge on the front of the machine and 206 is on their edge on the back of the machine and that'll give me a a 2-inch rake from back to front so I'm going to put those on their edge and set the Machine down on it and then to get the right rake on it the right pitch forward all I have to do is release my tail wheels I have two on this eight foot cutter and drop them down to they until where they touch the ground and then when I let my front end down to the 300 that cut actually four and a half inches the the skid plates on the bottom are an inch lower than the blades when I drop it down to three and a half inches at the skid plate my back end will be at four and a half to five and a half inches and I'll be good to go I can throw the material out the back and everything will function as it should that's how you set the tail wheels you're gonna have to find out what pitch is is giving you in your owners manual for the front to be lower than the back get your blocks and then drop your tail wheels down to where you have that right pitch when you have the front end down you have the back end up just a little bit and there's holes back there in the bracket for the tail wheels that'll let you adjust it where you want it now on a rough cutter it's probably not going to be just exactly two inches higher if that's what the owners manual calls for but if you can get in the ballpark as long as that front is lower than the back it'll do the job and get it done fine I survive on web traffic I really appreciate shares subscriptions and and folks to go to my Facebook page and like my Facebook page and if you have questions or comments put them down below we'll try to get back with you thanks for watching

Channel: Tractor Mike

Views: 160,006

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Id: DWZdB6zX9JA

Length: 3min 52sec (232 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 07 2018