Brush Hogging With a TO-20

This year, I'm way late on a lot of farm chores including brush hoging my pastures, and I went out to do it today. With the tire chains on, my brush hog actually got hung up on my rear wheels. Not a fun experience!!!!

The problem is the lower 3ph arms move back and forth, allowing the hog to get closer to the wheels. I use chains to hold up the hog and keep the hog level, but that's not the problem.

Anyone else ever run into this, and how did you solve it? I know taking the tire chains off would solve the immediate problem, but the hog still will hit the tires sometimes anyway, and I want to fix this situation once and for all!!!

Thanks for any advice!!!!

I think I'm understanding your description of the stabilizer bars but am curious how shortening the chains can cause PTO damage?

It's not binding anything, but merely limit the arms by about an inch.

I'm not disagreeing, but am trying to understand. Are you saying that damage can be caused by not having the stabilizer bars, or that shortening the chains is risking damage?

Thanks in advance.

I think I know what you're talking about..... Side-to-side movement puts the hog into the tires.

My TO-30 did the same thing and I simply take a link out of the chains in the photo so there's not enough side-to-side movement to allow the hog to catch the tires.

I'm presuming your tractor is similar.

Some of my implements need that extra link to allow the bars to swing out far enough to hook them up, but for the hog I shorten them up.

Hope that helps.

The back of my TO-20 is a little differnet. but I think I can rig something up like that. Great idea!!!

Does anybody have a picture of this bracket, so I can start making my own?

I will try to get the time this weekend for making one.

thanks again

9 bucks... I'll see if my local have one, before spending time creating it myself. :)

I will take a few pictures and get them to you monday morning (eastern time) I don't know if my brackets are the same as those sold at TSC. I just know they have ferguson brackets there for that price. My TO-20 came with brackets already on it when I bought it a few weeks ago. Me thinks they are "generic" because they have a row of holes for the large pin to go through ("adjustable")

se ya dave