I had some high spots in one of my pastures, so I decided to use the bucket to level off the high spots by moving the dirt to a few holes that are in one corner of the pasture. It took me a couple of tries to figure out exactly how much accelleration to use to dig the dirt. After I figured that out, I used the front end of the bucket to smooth out the piles of dirt I had made at the other end of the pasture.
While I was moving dirt my uncle drove up. He lives one street over from the ranch and had come over to see how I was doing with the tractor. He owns a really big Kubota tractor and is an expert at taking care of heavy equipment. I've never seen anything this man couldn't do.
I asked him to help me put the bush-hog back on the tractor since I had never done that before. It took us both about 15 minutes to get it hooked up correctly, or so I thought.
We finished hooking it up, I started out into the field and began my first mow with the "big red tractor". WOW. I finished mowing those 4 acres in about 1.5 hours. In fact, the picture on this blogsite is the actual first mow. Andreia came down and took the pictures because I told her my facebook friends wanted to see it.
Well at about 9:00pm I finished mowing. By then I was mowing in the dark with the lights on. When I finished I slowly pulled up to the gate and stopped the tractor. I then reached down to the levers to lift up the bush-hog. All at once I heard a loud POP!!! I turned around and realized that the toplink had pulled loose from the bush-hog when I was trying to lift it. Apparently I had forgotten to put the pin on the connection. When the Pop occurred, the bracket that held the shaft for the toplink was bent. Now I can't get the shaft back thru the holes to hook the bush-hog back up!!! So tonight, I'm going down to the ranch and remove the bracket and take it to my uncle's house to see if we can straighten it back up.
I only learn from my mistakes...!!
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